TY  - JOUR
AU  - Chatterji,Pinka
AU  - Alegria,Margarita
AU  - Takeuchi,David
TI  - Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes:  Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey - Replication
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14404
PY  - 2008
Y2  - October 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14404
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14404.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Pinka Chatterji
State University of New York at Albany
Economics Department
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY  12222
Tel: 518/442-4746
E-Mail: pchatterji@albany.edu

Margarita Alegria
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research
Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School
120 Beacon Street, 4th Floor
Somerville MA 02143
E-Mail: malegria@charesearch.org

David Takeuchi
University of Washington
4101 15th Ave, NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6299
E-Mail: dt5@u.washington.edu
AB  - This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey – Replication to estimate the effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji, Elder and Taber (2005) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding selection along unobservable factors.  Among males, disorder is associated with reductions of 13-17 percentage points in labor force participation and employment, depending on the sample and the model.  Among females, we find smaller, less consistent associations between disorder and labor force participation and employment.  There are no effects of disorder on earnings or hours worked among employed individuals.
ER  -