TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment: evidence from a randomized controlled trial
JO  - American economic review
A1  - Baranov, Victoria
A1  - Bhalotra, Sonia
A1  - Biroli, Pietro
A1  - Maselko, Joanna
SP  - 824
EP  - 859
VL  - 110
IS  - 3
N2  - We evaluate the medium-term impacts of treating maternal depression on women's mental health, financial empowerment, and parenting decisions. We leverage variation induced by a cluster-randomized controlled trial that provided psychotherapy to 903 prenatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one of the world's largest psychotherapy interventions, and it dramatically reduced postpartum depression. Seven years after psychotherapy concluded, we returned to the study site to find that impacts on women's mental health had persisted, with a 17 percent reduction in depression rates. The intervention also improved women's financial empowerment and increased both time- and money-intensive parental investments by between 0.2 and 0.3 standard deviations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-8282
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180511
ID  - ref1
ER  -