TY  - BOOK
AU  - Busch,Susan
AU  - Golberstein,Ezra
AU  - Meara,Ellen
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - September 2011; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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. Just before the FDA warnings, adolescents with probable depression had grade point averages 0.14 points higher than adolescents with depression just after the warnings. The FDA warnings also coincided with increased delinquency, use of tobacco and 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w17426
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17426
ER  -