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Comment
. 2008 May;27(3):794-800.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2007.10.010. Epub 2007 Dec 7.

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

Jason Fletcher  1 , Barbara Wolfe
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Child mental health and human capital accumulation: the case of ADHD revisited

Jason Fletcher et al. J Health Econ. 2008 May.

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.

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