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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Maternal depression,women’s empowerment, and parental investment: evidence from a large randomized control trial |
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| Institution | Institute of Labor Economics |
| Series Name | IZA Discussion Papers |
| Number | 11187 |
| Number of Pages | 95 |
| Date | 2017 |
| Abstract Text | We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one of the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women’s financial empowerment, increasing their control over household spending. Additionally, the intervention increased both time- and monetaryintensive parental investments, with increases in investments tending to favor girls. |
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| Official URL | http://legacy.iza.org/de/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=11187 |
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| Keywords | Mental health, maternal depression, women’s labor supply, empowerment, early life, parenting, child development, , , randomized controlled trial, Pakistan |