Adolescent depression and educational attainment: results using sibling fixed effects
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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 © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Much of the past research on the impact of mental disorders on educational attainment has focused on depression.
“Much of the past research on the impact of mental disorders on educational attainment has focused on depression [38,22,7,8,21]”
From Long-term effects of mental disorders on educational attainment in the National Comorbidity Survey ten-year follow-up (2015) · cites this paper as [8]
Results of prior studies on associations of child and adolescent mental disorders with subsequent educational attainment have been inconsistent.
“Results have been inconsistent, with the majority of studies, but not all [9], finding significant gross associations of childhood and adolescent mental disorders with low levels of educational attainment and some finding that significant gross associations are explained by childhood adversities that preceded onset of the disorders [11,22].”
From Long-term effects of mental disorders on educational attainment in the National Comorbidity Survey ten-year follow-up (2015) · cites this paper as [8]
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- Authors
- Fletcher, J. M.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fletcher, Jason M.
- ORCID
- Fletcher, Jason M.
- Venue
- Health Economics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-07-06
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 855-871
- ISSN
- 1057-9230 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-1050
- OpenAlex
- W3124374110
- Semantic Scholar
- 8370bfd2ee105ae1407ec54cf69a01d3fc06c509
- Cited by
- 353
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 38 · 2020: 35 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 52 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 13.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Health Economics (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01HD031921)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Keywords
- adolescent depression, depressive symptoms, educational attainment, school dropout, college attendance, human capital accumulation, sibling fixed effects, reverse causality, years of schooling
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Socioeconomic Factors, Student Dropouts, United States, Siblings
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