This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Childhood disabilities entail a range of immediate and long-term economic costs that have
important implications for the well-being of the child, the family, and society but that are …

Mental health problems represent a potentially important but relatively unexplored factor in
explaining human capital accumulation during college. We conduct the first study, to our …

In recent decades, social work and other social science research disciplines have become
increasingly reliant on large secondary data sets, which have increased in both number and …

Research linking economic conditions and health often does not consider children's mental
health problems, which are the most common and consequential health issues for children …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effects of maternal education on child health in
68 developing countries across five continents over nearly three decades. Exploiting the …

Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and
Possibilities | The National Academies Press Skip to main content Navigate to Help Ordering …

We investigate the effects of a positive income shock on mental health among adolescent
girls using evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Malawi. Offers of cash transfers …

This paper presents evidence that diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) are driven largely by subjective comparisons across children in the same grade in …

This paper evaluates the impacts of education on women's relational empowerment, within a
context of 70 developing countries across the world. Exploiting the variation in educational …