The impact of poor health on academic performance: New evidence using genetic markers

Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven F.; Rosenquist, J. Niels; Audrain-McGovern, Janet

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.11.006

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“…Our results are consistent with other observational studies comparing the outcomes of depressed adolescents to non-depressed adolescents. Papers by Fletcher and Ding and colleagues (Ding et al 2009; Fletcher 2008), as well as earlier work (Berndt et al 2000) found that high school graduation rates and grades were lower for girls with depression compared to girls without, but they did not find similar results for boys. One piece of evidence that supports the notion that the FDA warnings were more important for girls than for boys is the evidence on suicides.…”

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“…Another study uses genetic markers as identifying instruments for adolescent depression and finds a significant negative effect of depression on grade point average, but again these significant effects are only observed for girls (Ding et al 2009). This approach requires the assumption that the genetic marker relates only to depression, and not other unmeasured traits that could influence grade point averages.…”

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“…In adolescents, depression is associated with lower human capital investment. (Berndt et al 2000; Ding et al 2009; Fletcher, 2008). In addition to its effect on mood, depression causes restlessness, anxiety, difficulty with concentration, and feelings of worthlessness, all of which may inhibit academic performance or other aspects of human capital.…”

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The FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

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Using annual cross-sectional data on over 100,000 adolescents aged 12-17, we studied academic and behavioral outcomes among those who were and were not likely affected by FDA warnings regarding the safety of antidepressants. Compared to other adolescents, adolescents with probable depression experienced a relative decline in grade point average of .14 points following the FDA warnings. The FDA warnings also coincided with increased delinquency, use of tobacco and use of illicit drugs. Together, our results stress the importance of mental health and its treatment as an input into cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of human capital.

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“…Here an additional variable (an "instrument") is used to replace the problematic independent variable with a proxy that is unrelated to both the unobserved factors that affect the outcome and the measurement error. A study from 2009 provides the first application of genetic markers in an instrumental variables application to identify causal estimates of how physical and mental health conditions in adolescence affect academic performance [4]. Thereby, the health variables are isolated from other explanatory factors such as nurture inputs, which in this case might include the neighborhood in which the families reside and the peers with which the adolescents associate.…”

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What is the role for molecular genetic data in public policy?

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“…However, a second strand of the literature examines the reverse relationship where the health status of individuals and health shocks impact school attainment (e.g. see Perri, 1984;Gomes-Neto, Hanushek, Leite and FrotaBezzera, 1997;Corman and Chaikind, 1998;Kaestner and Grossman, 2009;Ding, Lehrer, Rosenquist and Audrain-McGovern, 2009;Zhao and Glewwe, 2010). These studies measure health status in a variety of ways, by looking at for example nutrition, illnesses such as depression, obesity and birth-weight.…”

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Poisoning the mind: Arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and children's educational achievement in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah

Chaudhury

2011

Economics of Education Review

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The impact of poor health on academic performance: New evidence using genetic markers

Cited by 178 publications

References 46 publications

The FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

The FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

What is the role for molecular genetic data in public policy?

Poisoning the mind: Arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and children's educational achievement in rural Bangladesh

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