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Title: Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital
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Currie, Janet Stabile, Mark |
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Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital Presented: Chicago, IL, American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 3-5, 2007. Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2007/0107_1015_1701.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Attention/Attention Deficit; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Canada, Canadian; Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY); Child Health; Children, Mental Health; Cross-national Analysis; Depression (see also CESD); Family Income; Head Start; Job Aspirations; Labor Market Outcomes; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Preschool Children; Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control); School Progress; Siblings; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, conduct disorders, and other behavioral problems. Our work offers a number of innovations. First we use large nationally representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on "screeners" that were administered to all children in our sample, rather than on diagnosed cases. Third, we address omitted variables bias by estimating sibling-fixed effects models. Fourth, we examine a range of outcomes. Fifth, we ask how the effects of mental health conditions are mediated by family income and maternal education. We find that mental health conditions have large negative effects on future test scores and schooling attainment, regardless of family income and maternal education. |
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Currie, Janet and Mark Stabile. "Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital." Presented: Chicago, IL, American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 3-5, 2007. |