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Author: Cunha, Andrea Cristina
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1. Cunha, Andrea Cristina
The Effects of Clinical Depression on Schooling and Wages
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 1997.
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Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Educational Returns; High School Completion/Graduates; Wage Equations; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty

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Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I test the propositions of the model applicable to the schooling period by estimating the effects of depression on the individual's probability of completing high school. I find that on average, the presence of depression decreases the predicted probability of high school completion of males by eighteen percent, and the predicted probability of high school completion of females by twenty one percent. I test the propositions of the model applicable to the working period by estimating a wage equation that includes a measure of depression and a schooling-depression interaction term. The results indicate that depression decreases wages. At the mean schooling level, and at mean levels of depression for the depressed and the nondepressed, wages earned by the nondepressed males and females exceed those earned by their depressed counterparts by thirty six percent. Returns to schooling are also negatively affected by depression; on average, the returns to each year of schooling are nine percent higher for nondepressed males and females than for their depressed counterparts.
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Cunha, Andrea Cristina. The Effects of Clinical Depression on Schooling and Wages. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 1997..