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1.	Fletcher, Jason Vidal-Fernández, Marian Wolfe, Barbara L.
1.	Dynamic and Heterogeneous Effects of Sibling Death on Children's Outcomes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 115,1 (2 January 2018): 115-120. Also: http://www.pnas.org/content/115/1/115.abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: National Academy of Sciences (NAS), United States Keyword(s): Cognitive Development; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parental Investments; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Siblings; Trauma/Death in family Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper explores the effects of experiencing the death of a sibling on children's developmental outcomes. Recent work has shown that experiencing a sibling death is common and long-term effects are large. We extend understanding of these effects by estimating dynamic effects on surviving siblings' cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, as well as emotional and cognitive support by parents. Using the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (CNLSY79), we find large initial effects on cognitive and noncognitive outcomes that decline over time. We also provide evidence that the effects are larger if the surviving child is older and less prominent if the deceased child was either disabled or an infant, suggesting sensitive periods of exposure. Auxiliary results show that parental investments in the emotional support of surviving children decline following the death of their child.
	Bibliography Citation Fletcher, Jason, Marian Vidal-Fernández and Barbara L. Wolfe. "Dynamic and Heterogeneous Effects of Sibling Death on Children's Outcomes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 115,1 (2 January 2018): 115-120.

2.	Fletcher, Jason Vidal-Fernández, Marian Wolfe, Barbara L.
2.	Dynamic Effects of Sibling Death on Children’s Outcomes Working Paper, University of New South Wales, Centre for Applied Economic Research, January 2013. Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: University of New South Wales Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Age at First Birth; Alcohol Use; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mortality; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Trauma/Death in family Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper explores the effects of experiencing the death of a sibling on children’s outcomes. Recent work has shown that experiencing a sibling death is common and the long-term effects are large. We extend our understanding by estimating the dynamic effects on cognitive, non- cognitive and home environmental measures as the surviving children age using the Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). We first examine the family level predictors of experiencing the death of a child. Because families who experience a death may differ from other families, we compare the trajectories of children before and after experiencing a sibling death only among families who experience a death. We find large initial effects on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes that decline over time and also provide evidence that the effects are larger if the surviving child is older, suggesting sensitive periods of exposure. Auxiliary results suggest that parental inputs decline following the death but also that, for some families, children’s outcomes rebound following the death of a sibling who had significant disabilities.
	Bibliography Citation Fletcher, Jason, Marian Vidal-Fernández and Barbara L. Wolfe. "Dynamic Effects of Sibling Death on Children’s Outcomes." Working Paper, University of New South Wales, Centre for Applied Economic Research, January 2013..

3.	Fletcher, Jason Wolfe, Barbara L.
3.	Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited Journal of Health Economics 27,3 (May 2008): 794-800. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629607000823 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Attention/Attention Deficit; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Mental Health; Educational Attainment; Grade Retention/Repeat Grade; Human Capital; Modeling, Fixed Effects; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); School Progress; Siblings; Special Education In volume 25, issue 6 of this journal, Janet Currie and Mark Stabile (JCMS,) made a significant contribution to our understanding of the influence of ADHD symptoms on a variety of school outcomes including participation in special education, grade repetition and test scores. Their contributions include using a broad sample of children and estimating sibling fixed effects models to control for unobserved family effects. In this comment we look at a sample of older children and confirm and extend many of the JCMS findings in terms of a broader set of measures of human capital and additional specifications. In this paper, we corroborate the short-term educational consequences of ADHD shown by JCMS and extend the examination to longer term educational outcomes of children with ADHD symptoms. Like the results by JCMS for the children in the NLS-Y, we find evidence that children in the Add Health data set who have ADHD symptoms are more likely to repeat a grade and receive special education services. We then show that standard OLS results imply that children with ADHD face longer term educational disadvantages, including lower grade point averages, increases in suspension and expulsions, and fewer completed years of schooling. However, we find that nearly all of these results are not robust to the inclusion of family fixed effects, suggesting that short-term consequences of educational outcomes do not lead to longer term educational consequences in a straightforward manner.
	Bibliography Citation Fletcher, Jason and Barbara L. Wolfe. "Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited." Journal of Health Economics 27,3 (May 2008): 794-800.

4.	Fletcher, Jason Wolfe, Barbara L.
4.	Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited NBER Working Paper No. 13474, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2007. Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w13474 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Attention/Attention Deficit; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Mental Health; Educational Attainment; Grade Retention/Repeat Grade; Human Capital; Modeling, Fixed Effects; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); School Progress; Siblings; Special Education Recently, Currie and Stabile (2006) made a significant contribution to our understanding of the influence of ADHD symptoms on a variety of school outcomes including participation in special education, grade repetition and test scores. Their contributions include using a broad sample of children and estimating sibling fixed effects models to control for unobserved family effects. In this paper we look at a sample of older children and confirm and extend many of the JCMS findings in terms of a broader set of measures of human capital and additional specifications.
	Bibliography Citation Fletcher, Jason and Barbara L. Wolfe. "Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited." NBER Working Paper No. 13474, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2007.

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