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Apr 21, 5 tweets

What closes the ideology-mental health gap?🧵

Education actually doubles the gap. Thus the gap isn’t caused by uneducated conservatives refusing to seek help. 1/5

The mental health gap is stronger among above-median earners. 2/5

The ideology-mental health link barely moves within the marriage subgroup. 3/5

Having kids slightly reduces the link, but increases the rate for each group. This is probably an age effect.4/5

Church attendance mostly eliminates the ideology-mental health gap. But few young liberals attend so that the sample is very small (n=13 liberal monthly+). 5/5

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