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Title: Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited
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1. Fletcher, Jason
Wolfe, Barbara L.
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.
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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.