Replication Data for: Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout

Context: This paper untangles the effects of depression on voter turnout among Blacks and Whites, and women and men, and considers several factors—income, health insurance, church attendance, group consciousness, and empowerment—that may mitigate the negative effects of depression on turnout. Methods: We estimate regression models of voter turnout on depression across race and gender groups using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We use interaction terms to assess whether the effect of depression is conditional on the potential mitigating factors. Findings: We find that reporting increased depressive symptoms is associated with a lower probability of voting across electoral contexts for all respondents and that few factors mitigate this negative effect. Only in the case of Black men do we find that a co-ethnic candidate mitigates the negative effect of depression, while a higher level of group consciousness does the opposite. Conclusions: The effect of depression is strong, cuts across racial and gender groups, and is generally robust to the effects of income, health insurance, church attendance, group consciousness, and empowerment. More research is required to understand how to reduce depression and improve turnout among those who experience it.