The impact of maternal depression on children’s cognitive development: An analysis based on panel quantile regressions

Linyue Yu and Virginia Wilcox

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 126, issue C, 107-109

Abstract: We use unconditional quantile regressions for panel data to capture the various effects of maternal depression along the actual distribution of children’s cognitive test scores. Children falling in the middle of the test score distribution are most impacted.

Keywords: Maternal depression; Cognitive development; Panel quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.11.025

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