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Mis(sed) diagnosis: Physician decision-making and ADHD

Marquardt, Kelli - 2022

While the presence of disparities in healthcare is well documented, the mechanisms of such disparities are less understood, particularly in relation to mental health. This paper develops and estimates a structural model of diagnosis for the most prevalent child mental health condition, Attention...

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Physician practice style for mental health conditions: The case of ADHD

Marquardt, Kelli - 2022

There is a robust literature documenting the importance of physician practice style (e.g., the propensity to perform certain operations) in explaining outcomes related to patients' physical health. Yet little is known about the role of physicians in explaining patients' mental health outcomes....

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Societal disruptions and child mental health: Evidence from ADHD diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic

Freedman, Seth; Marquardt, Kelli; Salcedo, Dario; … - 2023

We study how the societal disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diagnosis of a prevalent childhood mental health condition, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Using both nationwide private health insurance claims and a single state's comprehensive electronic health records,...

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Does child abuse cause crime?

Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on … measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add … Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the …

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Child mental health and educational attainment: Multiple observers and the measurement error problem

Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - 2011

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...

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Child mental health and educational attainment: Multiple observers and the measurement error problem

Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - 2011

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Child mental health and educational attainment: Multiple observers and the measurement error problem

Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - 2011

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Mental health of children and young people in Great Britain, 2004

Green, Hazel (contributor) - 2005

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Redressing the emperor : improving our children's public mental health system

Lyons, John S. - 2004

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Lives at risk: Uncovering factors associated with fatal child maltreatment

Whitt-Woosley, Adrienne; Sprang, Ginny; Gustman, Brian D. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 47 (2014) P3, pp. 307-313

Awareness of cases of fatal child maltreatment has risen significantly in recent years suggesting the presence of a … this study was to identify differences between high risk child maltreatment and fatal risk cases and associated child … protective service factors. For this study, 50 cases of fatal and near fatal child maltreatment were compared to a random sample …

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