Depression and economic self-sufficiency among inner-city minority mothers

Lehrer, E.; Crittenden, K.; Norr, K. F.

Social Science Research 31(3): 285-309

2002


ISSN/ISBN: 0049-089X
Document Number: 250061
This paper uses a newly available data set on African-American and Latina mothers living in an inner-city neighborhood of Chicago to study the role of depression as a potential barrier to economic self-sufficiency. Logit, regressions that control for a rich set of background characteristics reveal that a short period of high depressive symptoms does not have major repercussions in the economic sphere. However, repeated episodes or a prolonged condition of high depressive symptoms is strongly associated with an elevated risk of subsequent welfare dependency. reserved.

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