• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation : The Case of ADHD Revisited
  • Contributor: Fletcher, Jason [Author]; Wolfe, Barbara L. [Other]
  • Corporation: National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Published: Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2007
  • Published in: NBER working paper series ; no. w13474
  • Extent: 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
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