Child mental health and human capital accumulation: The case of ADHD revisited

Jason Fletcher and Barbara Wolfe ()

Journal of Health Economics, 2008, vol. 27, issue 3, 794-800

Abstract: In volume 25, issue 6 of this journal, Janet Currie and Mark Stabile (JCMS,) 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 comment 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.

Date: 2008
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