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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP14681 |
DP14681 Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression | |
Corrado Giulietti; Michael Vlassopoulos; Yves Zenou | |
发表日期 | 2020-04-29 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We provide first evidence that peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We use data from Add Health and an identification strategy that relies on within-school and across-cohort idiosyncratic variation in the share of own-gender peers who are depressed. We find a significant peer effect for females but not for males. An increase of one standard deviation of the share of own-gender peers (schoolmates) who are depressed increases the probability of depression in adulthood by 2.6 percentage points for females (or 11.5% of mean depression). We also find that the peer effect is already present in the short term when girls are still in school and provide evidence for why it persists over time. Further analysis reveals that individuals from families with a lower socioeconomic background are more susceptible to peer influence, thereby suggesting that family can function as a buffer. Our findings underscore the importance of peer relationships in adolescence with regard to the development of long-lasting depression in women. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Causal peer effects Depression Gender Adolescence |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14681 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543597 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Corrado Giulietti,Michael Vlassopoulos,Yves Zenou. DP14681 Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression. 2020. |
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