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Antidepressant Use and School Performance: Evidence from Danish Administrative Data| title | Antidepressant Use and School Performance: Evidence from Danish Administrative Data |
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| start_date | 2023/04/06 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle R2-21 |
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| summary | We investigate impacts of antidepressant treatment on academic achievement among Danish children who are referred to a child psychiatrist. Leveraging quasi-random assignment of patients to psychiatrists with different prescribing tendencies, we find that treatment significantly increases test scores, especially in math and among girls. Treatment effects are larger among children of less educated mothers who, in general, are less likely to be treated, indicating negative selection on observables. However, a marginal treatment effects approach reveals that the effects are larger among children most likely to benefit from treatment, suggesting positive selection on unobservables. The marginal treatment effects are almost always positive, suggestive of under-prescribing of SSRI for children. This conjecture is confirmed by policy experiments indicating that expanding treatment among children of less educated mothers yields large test score increases, but restricting access to treatment among children of highly educated mothers harms their performance |
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| responsibles | Chassagnon, Apouey |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/03/29 14:28 UTC |
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