Published:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2007
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w13474
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1 Online-Ressource
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3386/w13474
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Description:
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