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Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of Adhd Revisited

Jason M. Fletcher
Yale University - School of Public Health

Barbara Wolfe
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); RSSS-economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

October 2007

NBER Working Paper No. W13474

Abstract:
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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Date posted: October 05, 2007 ; Last revised: December 10, 2007

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Fletcher, Jason M. and Wolfe, Barbara L., Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of Adhd Revisited (October 2007). NBER Working Paper Series, Vol. w13474, pp. -, 2007. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1019474

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Barbara L. Wolfe (Contact Author) University of Wisconsin-Madison ( email ) Social Science Bldg Madison, WI 53706 United States 6082626358 (Phone)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) P.O. Box 7240 D-53072 Bonn Germany
CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Poschinger Str. 5 DE-81679 Munich Germany
RSSS-economics ( email ) NCEPH Building 62 Canberra ACT 0200, Canberra 2601 Australia
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Jason M. Fletcher Yale University - School of Public Health ( email ) PO Box 208034 60 College Street New Haven, CT 06520-8034 United States