The effects of parents' psychiatric disorders on children's high school dropout
The effects of parents' psychiatric disorders on children's high school dropout
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DOI：
10.1016/s0272-7757(02)00031-6
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发表时间：
2003-04-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Wilcox-Gök, V
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作者：
Farahati, F;Marcotte, DE;Wilcox-Gök, V
众所周知，精神疾病会给病人带来巨大的直接成本。在本文中，我们研究了精神疾病的间接成本。我们调查了父母的精神疾病对其子女上学的影响。利用科摩罗全国调查的数据，我们发现父母的精神疾病增加了儿童高中辍学的可能性，尽管这些影响因疾病而显着不同。我们还发现，父母的精神疾病对女孩的负面影响比对男孩的负面影响更为一致。这些研究结果表明，父母的精神疾病可以对儿童的学校教育产生强大的影响，并随后对他们的成年生活。对女孩上学的更大影响加剧了成年妇女因精神疾病而造成的更大收入和就业损失。我们的研究结果表明，旨在减轻父母精神疾病对儿童学业成就的影响的政策是潜在的有效利用社会资源。(C)2002爱思唯尔科技有限公司版权所有。
Mental illness is known to impose substantial direct costs on the ill. In this paper, we examine an indirect cost of mental illness. We investigate the effect of parents' mental illnesses on-the schooling of their children. Using data from the National Comorbidity Survey, we find that parents' mental illnesses increase the probability of high school dropout of children, though these effects differ markedly with disease. We also find that parental mental illness has more consistently negative effects on girls than on boys.These findings indicate that parental mental illness can have a powerful impact on children's schooling and subsequently on their adult lives. The larger impact on girls' schooling compounds the greater earnings and employment losses due to mental illness borne by adult women. Our results suggest that policies designed to mitigate the effects of parental mental illness on children's schooling attainment are potentially efficient uses of society's resources. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.