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

Fletcher, Jason M.; Wolfe, Barbara

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

NBER Working Paper No. w13474

30 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2007 Last revised: 27 Oct 2022

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Jason M. Fletcher

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs; Yale University - School of Public Health

Barbara Wolfe

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

Date Written: October 2007

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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Fletcher, Jason M. and Wolfe, Barbara L., Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of Adhd Revisited (October 2007). NBER Working Paper No. w13474, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1019474