TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Menta, Giorgia
AU  - Lepinteur, Anthony
AU  - Clark, Andrew E.
AU  - Ghislandi, Simone
AU  - D'Ambrosio, Conchita
        TI  - Maternal Genetic Risk for Depression and Child Human Capital
        PY  - 2022/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15798
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15798
        AB  - We here address the causal relationship between the maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital using UK birth-cohort data. We find that an increase of one standard deviation (SD) in the maternal polygenic risk score for depression reduces their children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill scores by 5 to 7% of a SD throughout adolescence. Our results are robust to a battery of sensitivity tests addressing, among others, concerns about pleiotropy and dynastic effects. Our Gelbach decomposition analysis suggests that the strongest mediator is genetic nurture (through maternal depression itself), with genetic inheritance playing only a marginal role.
        KW  - maternal depression
KW  - human capital
KW  - ALSPAC
        ER  -