University at Albany, Economics Department, Business Administration 111A, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
J Health Econ. 2011 Sep;30(5):858-68. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.06.006. Epub 2011 Jul 1.
This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication to estimate effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji et al. (2005a) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding selection along unobservable factors. Among males, disorder is associated with reductions in labor force participation and employment. When selection on observed characteristics is set equal to selection on unobserved characteristics, the magnitudes of these effects for males are 9 and 14 percentage point reductions for participation and employment, respectively. Among females, we find negative associations between disorder and labor force participation and employment, but these estimates are more sensitive to assumptions about selection. There are no effects of disorder on earnings or hours worked among employed individuals.
本文使用国家共病调查-复制来估计最近的精神障碍对就业、工作时间和收入的影响。我们采用 Altonji 等人（2005a）提出的方法，该方法利用可观察特征的选择提供有关不可观察因素的选择信息。在男性中，障碍与劳动力参与率和就业率的下降有关。当对观察到的特征的选择等于对不可观察特征的选择时，这些对男性的影响的幅度分别为参与率和就业率下降 9 和 14 个百分点。在女性中，我们发现障碍与劳动力参与率和就业率之间存在负相关关系，但这些估计对选择的假设更为敏感。在就业的个体中，障碍对收入或工作时间没有影响。
