Science AMA Series: We’re a team of epidemiologists from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, who published a recent study linking the wage gap to gender disparities in mood disorders, Ask Us Anything!

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Hi, Reddit – We’re a team of epidemiologists from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. In our recent study titled, "Unequal depression for equal work? How the wage gap explains gendered disparities in mood disorders,” we used propensity scores to match women and men on age, education, occupation, family composition, years in the workforce, and other factors, and then estimated the effect of income differentials on depression and generalized anxiety disorder. We found that U.S. women whose income was lower than their male matches had nearly 2.5 times the odds of major depression and 4 times the odds of generalized anxiety disorder. Yet when women’s income was greater than their male matches, women’s odds of generalized anxiety disorder or depression were nearly equivalent to men. This finding, published in the journal Social Science & Medicine (http://ift.tt/1OB2LSx), may help explain why women are nearly twice as likely to have depression or anxiety than men.

We are Jonathan Platt, Katherine Keyes, Seth Prins, and Lisa Bates.

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