Working Paper: NBER ID: w13474
Authors: Jason Fletcher; Barbara L. Wolfe
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.
Keywords: ADHD; human capital; education; sibling effects
JEL Codes: I12; I20
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| ADHD symptoms (D91) | grade repetition (A23) |
| ADHD symptoms (D91) | special education services (I24) |
| ADHD symptoms (D91) | GPA (C00) |
| sibling with ADHD (Y80) | educational outcomes of child without ADHD symptoms (I21) |
| sibling with ADHD (Y80) | human capital accumulation (J24) |