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that the younger siblings and cousins of marginally diagnosed children are also more likely to be diagnosed with and … treated for ADHD. Moreover, we find that the younger relatives of marginally diagnosed children have no better adult human …
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The objective of this study is to use data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS … publicly-insured children in states that raised fees vs. in states that did not. We also consider a triple difference … specification using privately-insured children as the comparison group. Our findings indicate that raising the Medicaid primary care …
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children respond to healthcare prices. We find that free care significantly increases outpatient spending, with price …
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We estimate the effect of local access to office-based mental healthcare on crime. We leverage variation in the number of mental healthcare offices within a county over the period 1999 to 2014 in a two-way fixed-effects model. We find that increases in the number of mental healthcare offices...
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Does drug treatment for depression with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) increase or decrease the risk of completed suicide? The question is important in part because of recent government warnings that question the safety of SSRIs, one of the most widely prescribed medications in...
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Physicians prescribing drugs for patients with schizophrenia and related conditions are remarkably concentrated in their choice among antipsychotic drugs. In 2007 the single antipsychotic drug prescribed by a physician accounted for 66% of all antipsychotic prescriptions written by that...
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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 …
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We use data on all middle and high school-aged children who survived a mass shooting incident on July 22, 2011 in Utoya …-in-differences design to compare survivors to a matched control group, we find that in the short run children who survive have substantially …
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two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school … settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote … investigated the frequency and consequences of disruptions to children's child care and school arrangements during fall 2020. The …
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