Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/200365 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2018-01
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effect of postpartum depression (PPD) on maternal employment in the UK and assesses the extent of the direct and indirect link between PPD and maternal employment up to eleven years after the birth of the child. The study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children's outcomes) as mediators in order to assess the indirect effect of PPD on maternal employment, utilising several waves of data from the Millennium Cohort Study. The findings are of significance to policy makers as they indicate that PPD has a direct effect on maternal employment 5 years after the birth of the child and an indirect effect after 7 and 11 years. The indirect effects are mediated primarily through subsequent maternal mental and physical health problems.
Subjects: 
postpartum depression
maternal employment
health inequalities
KHB decomposition
JEL: 
J21
J13
J16
I14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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