Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
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母性抑郁、女性赋权与父母投资：来自随机对照试验的证据
DOI：
10.1257/aer.20180511
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
影响因子：
10.7
通讯作者：
Maselko, Joanna
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作者：
Baranov, Victoria;Bhalotra, Sonia;Maselko, Joanna
我们评估了治疗孕产妇抑郁症对女性心理健康、经济赋权和育儿决策的中期影响。我们利用了一项整群随机对照试验引起的变异，该试验为巴基斯坦农村地区 903 名产前抑郁的母亲提供了心理治疗。这是世界上最大的心理治疗干预措施之一，它极大地减少了产后抑郁症。心理治疗结束七年后，我们回到研究地点，发现对女性心理健康的影响仍然存在，抑郁症发生率降低了 17%。干预措施还提高了妇女的财务权能，并将时间和金钱密集型的父母投资增加了 0.2 至 0.3 个标准差。
We evaluate the medium-term impacts of treating maternal depression on women's mental health, financial empowerment, and parenting decisions. We leverage variation induced by a cluster-randomized controlled trial that provided psychotherapy to 903 prenatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one of the world's largest psych-otherapy interventions, and it dramatically reduced postpartum depression. Seven years after psychotherapy concluded, we returned to the study site to find that impacts on women's mental health had persisted, with a 17 percent reduction in depression rates. The intervention also improved women's financial empowerment and increased both time- and money-intensive parental investments by between 0.2 and 0.3 standard deviations.