Data and code for: Reskilling and Resilience

This paper shows that effective reskilling substantially reduces antidepressant use among injured workers and their partners. Exploiting institutional variation in access to higher education following work accidents in Denmark, we find that reskilling prevents antidepressant use for one in three participants, with partner spillovers of comparable magnitude. These effects emerge while workers are in school—prior to any income gains—and coincide with increased partner employment. Assuming a one-to-one mapping between prescriptions and depressive episodes, the value of these health improvements adds 50% to the direct labor earnings gains from reskilling; partner earnings gains add another 33%.