In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … research, depression is conceptualized as a drastic loss of utility and value of life (life satisfaction) for unchanged … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …

This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from … fictitious unemployed candidates to real vacancies in Belgium. Within each pair, one candidate cites depression as the reason for … applicants disclosing former depression are treated unfavourably is rejected. However, if we break up the data by the gender of …