TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ettner,Susan L.
AU  - Frank,Richard G.
AU  - Kessler,Ronald C.
TI  - The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5989
PY  - 1997
Y2  - April 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5989
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5989.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard Frank
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617/432-0178
Fax: 617/432-1219
E-Mail: frank@hcp.med.harvard.edu
AB  - Data on 2225 men and 2401 women from the National Comorbidity Survey were used to examine the impact of psychiatric disorders on employment and conditional work hours and income. Two-stage instrumental variables methods were used to correct for the potential endogeneity of psychiatric disorders.  The instruments used (the psychiatric disorder history of the respondent and respondent's parents) passed tests of the overidentifying restrictions.  Psychiatric disorders significantly reduced employment among both men and women. Evidence was also found of small reductions in the conditional work hours of men and a substantial drop in the conditional earnings of men and women, although these findings were somewhat more sensitive to the estimation methods and specification of the model.
ER  -