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Henry Saffer

Henry Saffer received a Ph.D. in Economics from the City University of New York in 1977. He has published a number of papers on public policy and health economics. These include papers on alcohol and tobacco, mental illness and illicit drug control. He has been the principle investigator on several grants from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and on grants from the National Institute of Cancer, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, the J.M. Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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School Smartphone Bans Show No Effect on Youth Mental Health

Henry Saffer
Following a decade of declining youth mental health, many states have attempted to limit children’s access to social media and the internet by banning smartphones in schools. In new research, Henry Saffer finds no evidence that in-school smartphone bans have any effect on the screentime or mental well-being of young Americans.

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