Currie, Janet M.; Kurdyak, Paul; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine differences in the prescribing of psychiatric medications to low-income and higher-income children in the … that conditional on diagnosis and medical history, low-income children are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics and … benzodiazepines than higher-income children who see the same doctors. These are drugs with potentially dangerous side effects that …