TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baranov, Victoria
AU  - Bhalotra, Sonia R.
AU  - Biroli, Pietro
AU  - Maselko, Joanna
        TI  - Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial
        PY  - 2017/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11187
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11187
        AB  - We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women's financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one of the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to evaluate its long-run effects. We find that the intervention increased women's financial empowerment, increasing their control over household spending. Additionally, the intervention increased both time- and monetary-intensive parental investments, with increases in investments tending to favor girls.
        KW  - empowerment
KW  - maternal depression
KW  - mental health
KW  - randomized controlled trial
KW  - women's labor supply
KW  - early life
KW  - parenting
KW  - child development
KW  - Pakistan
        ER  -