The Lasting Impacts of School Shootings on Youth Psychotropic Drug Use

By Max Pienkny, Maya Rossin-Slater, Molly Schnell, and Hannes Schwandt

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper estimates the effects of fatal school shootings on youth psychotropic drug use over the subsequent five and a half years. Using an event study approach that compares trends in drugs prescribed by providers practicing close to a school shooting ...

Spillovers and Training Effects on Mental Health Prescribing for Children

By Janet Currie, W. Bentley MacLeod, and Mengsong Ouyang

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use data on all prescriptions filled at US retail pharmacies from 2006 to 2018 to examine deviations from best practice in prescribing psychiatric medications to children. The results demonstrate the importance of spillovers from other doctors in the s...

Early Home Visiting Delivery Model and Maternal and Child Mental Health at Primary School Age

By Gabriella Conti, Sören Kliem, and Malte Sandner

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study the impacts of a prenatal and infancy home visiting program targeting disadvantaged families on mental health outcomes, assessed through diagnostic interviews. The program significantly reduced the prevalence of mental health conditions for both ...

A Multinomial-Choice Model of Neighborhood Effects

By William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf

American Economic Review, May 2002

Maternal Mental Health Responses to COVID-19 Shocks and Uncertainty in Rural Pakistan

By Michelle Escobar Carias, Victoria Baranov, Joanna Maselko, Pietro Biroli, and Sonia Bhalotra

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

In this paper, we investigate the association between a battery of mental health measures and experienced morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19, worry about disease risk, experienced economic shocks, and economic uncertainty about the future. We find th...

Depression, Poverty, and Economic Shocks: Evidence from India

By Manuela Angelucci and Daniel Bennett

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines the correlations between socioeconomic status, economic shocks, and depression, and how these vary by gender, in a sample of adults from India. Poverty and the exposure to negative shocks are both associated with depression. However, t...

The Economic Burden of Dementia in India

By Marco Angrisani, Maria Casanova, Jinkook Lee, and Erik Meijer

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper provides the first estimate of the economic cost borne by Indian individuals living with dementia and their families based on nationally and state-wise representative data from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI). We found that the ann...

Air Pollution and Mental Health: Evidence from China

By Shuai Chen, Paulina Oliva, and Peng Zhang

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We estimate the short-run effect of air pollution on mental illness. Using the China Family Panel Studies covering 12,615 urban residents during 2014–2015, we find a significantly positive effect of air pollution—instrumented by thermal inversions—o...

The Impact of Family Tax Benefits on Children's Health and Educational Outcomes

By Michael Baker, Kourtney Koebel, and Mark Stabile

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We leverage recent income support reforms for families with children in Canada to investigate the impact of child benefits on child health and educational outcomes. Using administrative school data from British Columbia linked to parents' tax files, we fi...

Tribal Casinos and Identifying Who Moves to Opportunity

By Emilia Simeonova, Randall Akee, and Maggie R. Jones

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

In this analysis, we examine what types of households migrate to American Indian reservation lands after the start of casino operations using longitudinal household data for 1989–2017. We find heterogeneous effects on migration by households of differen...

Who Is Financially Constrained in Their Choice of Contraceptive Method? Lessons from M-CARES

By Martha J. Bailey, Lea Bart, Alexa Prettyman, Vanessa Wanner Lang, and Vanessa Dalton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES) is a randomized control trial that examines how financial constraints affect the choice of contraceptives among uninsured individuals. Although all M-CARES participants are highly...

Family Structure and Childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Aletheia Donald, Sara Lowes, and Julia Vaillant

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Extended family members can help women with childcare. Using data from 32 sub-Saharan African countries, we find that the prevalence of nuclear families relative to extended families is increasing over time. The overall share of nuclear families is 56 per...

Who Uses Childcare Centers? Evidence from Burkina Faso

By Kehinde F. Ajayi, Aziz Dao, Estelle Koussoubé, and P. Rita Nikiema

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

What determines childcare center use for low-income urban households? And how does subsidizing provision change access to childcare services? We study these questions using data from a randomized evaluation that subsidized childcare center use for women p...

Long-Term Effects of Preschool Subsidies and Cash Transfers on Child Development: Evidence from Uganda

By Kjetil Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville, and Lore Vandewalle

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, three-to-five-year-old children in Uganda were randomly offered a subsidy to attend full-day preschool for one year. A second treatment group received cash transfers that were at least as large as the cos...

Identifying Hedonic Models

By Ivar Ekeland, James J. Heckman, and Lars Nesheim

American Economic Review, May 2002

The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children's Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

By David K. Evans, Pamela Jakiela, and Amina Mendez Acosta

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Center-based childcare programs are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. The impacts of these programs on women's labor market outcomes are consistently positive, but what are the impacts on children's developmental outcomes? We systemat...

Synergistic Impacts of Expansions in Pre-K Access and School Funding on Student Achievement: Evidence from California's Transitional Kindergarten Rollout

By Rucker C. Johnson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates the extent to which expansions in public pre-K and increases in K12 funding improve student learning trajectories and narrow achievement gaps. I link school- and student-level information on public preschool participation with long...

In Search of Dynamic Complementarities between Early and Later Education: Evidence from North Carolina's Pre-K and K–12 School Funding Reforms

By Jade M. Jenkins, Tyler W. Watts, and Kenneth A. Dodge

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We extend Johnson and Jackson's (2019) seminal paper on dynamic complementarities between early and late educational opportunities using modern-day programs in North Carolina. We exploit exogenous variation in the allocations made to counties for state pr...

The Effect of Early Childhood Programs on Third-Grade Test Scores: Evidence from Transitional Kindergarten in Michigan

By Jordan Berne, Brian Jacob, Tareena Musaddiq, Anna Shapiro, and Christina Weiland

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Transitional kindergarten (TK) is a relatively recent entrant into the US early education landscape, combining features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on third-grade test sco...

Tailoring Mentorship: Evidence on Diverse Needs and Application Patterns for High School Students

By Caterina Calsamiglia, Javier Garcia-Brazales, and Annalisa Loviglio

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We investigate enrollment in a mentoring program aimed at promoting transition to tertiary education for high school students. Females exhibit both higher initial interest and application completion, while immigrants and financially constrained students i...