School of Economics 

 Invites you to a

Microeconometrics & Public Policy seminar presented by

Marco Bertoni
(University of Padova)

Subjective Gendered-Based Patterns in ADHD Diagnosis

Co-authors
(Blas Marin-Lopez – University of Alicante)
(Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano – University of Alicante)

Friday 1 September 2023

12.00pm – 1.00pm

Seminar Room 650
A02 Social Sciences Building

Camperdown Campus
The University of Sydney NSW 2006

The increasing incidence rate of ADHD diagnosis has sparked debates about over-medicalization and misdiagnosis. We use data on individuals’ genetic predisposition to ADHD from the Add Health survey on U.S. schools to uncover relative standards in ADHD diagnosis. We estimate that students’ ordinal rank in the genetic predisposition to ADHD among their same-gender grademates has a positive, statistically significant, and substantial causal effect on ADHD diagnosis, holding students’ own genetic predisposition to ADHD constant. This effect is mainly driven by boys, contributing to explain the observed higher rate of diagnosis of boys relative to girls for a given genetic ADHD predisposition.

For further information contact: Microeconometrics & Public Policy Seminar Coordinator
Dr Gregor Pfeifer & Dr Rebecca McKibbin

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