The Economics Consequences of Depression: Evidence from Goa
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Pierre-Luc Vautrey
Jonathan de Quidt
IIES Stockholm
Frank Schilbach
Gautam Rao
Firms & Productivity, Health, Labor, Welfare
Depression, Psychotherapy
I12, D91, J24, O10
The goal of this study is to estimate the effects of treating Major Depressive Disorder ("Depression") on economic behavior. The study follows up on two recently-completed randomized control trials of low-cost psychotherapy to treat depression in Goa, India, conducted by the NGO Sangath and led by Professor Vikram Patel. We will study the impact of the treatments (and the resulting reduced levels of depression) on beliefs, preferences and decision-making, and other economic outcomes.
Haushofer, Johannes et al. 2019. "The Economics Consequences of Depression: Evidence from Goa." AEA RCT Registry. January 28. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.3823-1.0.
Haushofer, Johannes et al. 2019. "The Economics Consequences of Depression: Evidence from Goa." AEA RCT Registry. January 28. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3823/history/40718.
This study follows up on two randomized controlled trials of low-cost psychotherapy run by the NGO Sangath in Goa, India: PREMIUM and SHARE.
Primary outcomes are the level of overconfidence, biases in beliefs updating, the decision on the main hiring opportunity, and risk, time, social preferences and susceptibility to defaults effects. This is described in more details in the document.
See the PDF.
Consumption, education and human capital investments, intimate partner violence, women's empowerment, mood, loneliness, sleep quality and locus of control, labor supply and earnings, the reservation wage measured in our experiment, and the performance at bracelets making.
See the accompanying PDF.
Randomization done by a computer.
247 (PREMIUM EUC+HAP), 248 (PREMIUM EUC), 140 (SHARE EUC+THPP), 140 (SHARE EUC)
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