ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: RESULTS USING SIBLING FIXED EFFECTS
ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: RESULTS USING SIBLING FIXED EFFECTS
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DOI：
10.1002/hec.1526
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Fletcher, Jason M.
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作者：
Fletcher, Jason M.
本文从几个方面对青少年抑郁与受教育程度之间的关系的文献做出了贡献。首先，虽然通常使用横截面数据，但本文使用纵向数据，以防止潜在的反向因果关系。其次，在研究青少年抑郁症状与人力资本积累之间的关系时，这是文献中第一篇控制兄弟姐妹固定效应的论文。重要的是，这消除了被忽略的因素，如家庭和邻里特征共同影响兄弟姐妹的抑郁症状和教育成就（如邻里犯罪）。以及家庭资源)。第三，本文考察了抑郁症状的指标和量表的影响，并发现了这些抑郁症状与人力资本积累之间的重要关联。虽然研究结果不能给出因果解释，但研究结果表明，抑郁症状与受教育年限之间存在负相关关系。这种关系似乎主要是通过增加辍学的机会来驱动的，但可能对大学出勤率（以高中毕业为条件）的可能性影响不大。特别是，优选估计表明，抑郁症状的标准偏差增加与退学可能性增加25-30%有关。版权所有(C) 2009约翰威利父子公司。有限公司
This paper contributes to the literature on the relationship between adolescent depression and educational attainment in several ways. First, while cross-sectional data are normally used, this paper uses longitudinal data in order to defend against the potential of reverse causality. Second, this is the first paper in the literature to control for sibling-fixed effects in examining the relationship between adolescent depressive symptoms and human capital accumulation. Importantly, this eliminates omitted factors such as family and neighborhood characteristics common to siblings that affect both depressive symptoms and educational attainments (e.g. neighborhood crime. and family resources). Third, this paper examines the effects of both an indicator and scale of depressive symptoms and finds important associations with these depressive symptoms and human capital accumulation. Though the results cannot be given a causal interpretation, the findings show a negative relationship between depressive symptoms and years of schooling. The relationship appears to be driven primarily through increasing the chances of dropping out but may have small impacts on the likelihood of college attendance (conditional on high school graduation). In particular, preferred estimates suggest that a standard deviation increase in depressive symptoms is associated with a 25-30% increase in the likelihood of dropping out. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons. Ltd.