Effects of Maternal Depression on Social Interactions

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E Reichman
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Hope Corman: Rider University and NBER, Department of Economics, 2083 Lawrenceville Rd., Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
Kelly Noonan: Rider University and NBER, Department of Economics, 2083 Lawrenceville Rd., Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
Nancy E Reichman: Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute of New Jersey, 89 French St., Room 4269, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA

Eastern Economic Journal, 2014, vol. 40, issue 2, 226-248

Abstract: We estimate the effects of a shock in mental health — postpartum depression — on the mother’s social interactions 1–3 years after her child’s birth. We address the potential endogeneity of depression by establishing the temporal ordering of events, incorporating rich control variables, conducting falsification tests, and estimating two-stage models. We find no evidence that postpartum depression affects social interactions — as characterized by participation in various types of community organizations and regular religious attendance — during the child’s third year of life, although it may cause a short-lived decline in social interactions in the first year.

Date: 2014
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