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Undergraduate Economic Review Volume 4 | Issue 1 Article 10 2008 Linking Depressed Earnings to Adolescent Depression Emily Sands Princeton University Recommended Citation Sands, Emily (2008) Linking Depressed Earnings to Adolescent Depression, Undergraduate Economic Review: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 10. Available at: /uer/vol4/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and Faculty Development, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU by the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@. 漏Copyright is owned by the author of this document. Linking Depressed Earnings to Adolescent Depression Abstract In this study, I a alyze empirically the ways in which adolesce t depression depresses earni gs in you g adulthood. I test the promine t assertio s that adolesce t depression is predictive of you g adult depressio and of lower educatio al attainme t, both of which are, in turn, predictive of lower earni gs. I then expand upon the curre t literature by testi g the assumption that those depressed in adolescence would benefit from stayi g in school. To that end, I first estimate the relatio ship between adolesce t depression and retur s to educatio . Since one releva t alter ative to educatio al attainme t is work experience, I then estimate the relatio ship between adolesce t depression and retur s to work experience. Fi ally, I compare the retur s to educatio al attainme t with the retur s to work experience for individuals depressed in adolescence relative to the retur s for their non-depressed pe