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Consequences of ADHD medication use for children's outcomes

Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 137-151

This paper estimates effects of early ADHD medication use on key human capital outcomes for children diagnosed with ADHD while using rarely available register based data on diagnoses and prescription drug purchases. Our main identification strategy exploits plausible exogenous assignment of...

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The virtuous tax: Lifesaving and crime-prevention effects of the 1991 federal alcohol-tax increase

Cook, Philip J.; Durrance, Christine Piette - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 261-267

estimate the aggregate effects of a federal tax increase on rates of injury fatality and crime. We provide evidence that the …) reduced injury deaths by 4.5% (6480 deaths), in 1991, and had a still larger effect on violent crime. …

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