Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020
We provide first evidence that peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We use data from Add … own-gender peers who are depressed. We find a significant peer effect for females but not for males. An increase of one … standard deviation of the share of own-gender peers (schoolmates) who are depressed increases the probability of depression in …