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Title: Mental Illness and College Educational Outcomes: Evidence from State Equal Coverage Laws
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Solomon, Keisha T. |
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Mental Illness and College Educational Outcomes: Evidence from State Equal Coverage Laws Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Keyword(s): Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS); College Education; Dropouts; Educational Outcomes; Geocoded Data; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades; Health, Mental/Psychological; State-Level Data/Policy Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Previous research has established that state mental illness parity laws improve access to mental healthcare and, in turn, reduce mental illness. I extend this literature in two important ways. First, I study the effect of the state mental illness parity law implementation on mental illness among college-age individuals. Second, I examine the effect of state mental illness parity laws on human capital accumulation. Considering spill-overs to these educational outcomes is important as previous research shows that mental illness impedes college performance. Hence, reduced mental illness through state parity laws could have positive spill-over effects to educational outcomes that have not yet been documented. I use differences-in-differences models to uncover the causal effects of state mental illness parity laws on mental illness and educational outcomes. I leverage plausibly exogenous variation in insurance coverage for mental healthcare using changes in state laws over the period 1998 to 2008. First, to study parity law effects on mental illness I utilize administrative data on completed suicides from National Vital Statistics System and survey data on reported mental illness from Behavioral Risk Factor System. Second, I use longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort to study the effects of the mental illness parity law on two important educational outcomes: drop out decisions and grade point average (GPA). |
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Solomon, Keisha T. "Mental Illness and College Educational Outcomes: Evidence from State Equal Coverage Laws." Presented: Washington DC, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 2018. |