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Societal Disruptions And Child Mental Health: Evidence From ADHD Diagnosis During The COVID-19 Pandemic / Seth M. Freedman, Kelli R. Marquardt, Dario Salcedo, Kosali I. Simon, Coady Wing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Seth M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30909.
- NBER working paper series no. w30909
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- 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, we compare children exposed to the pandemic to same aged children prior to the pandemic. We find the pandemic reduced new ADHD diagnoses by 8.6% among boys and 11.0% among girls nationwide through February 2021. We further show that higher levels of in-person schooling in Fall 2020 dampened the decline for girls but had no moderating effect for boys.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2023.
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