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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Ment Health Policy Econ. 2009 Sep;12(3):119–138.
Outcome Burglary Burglary Burglary Burglary
Specification Baseline No Census data just exo Drop PVT/GPA
Inattentive ADHD 0.017 0.021 0.020 0.016
(−0.006 – 0.041) (−0.005 – 0.048) (−0.005 – 0.044) (−0.006 – 0.038)
Hyper ADHD 0.010 0.011 0.009 0.008
(−0.010 – 0.030) (−0.009 – 0.030) (−0.009 – 0.027) (−0.010 – 0.026)
Combined ADHD 0.004 0.003 0.003 0.004
(−0.013 – 0.021) (−0.013 – 0.020) (−0.013 – 0.020) (−0.012 – 0.021)
Observations 12635 13132 14191 13636
Outcome Burglary Burglary Burglary Burglary
Specification Include Other Xs Drop Educ/Family Vars Lower ADHD Bar Drop Older Kids
Inattentive ADHD 0.014 0.017 0.011 0.016
(−0.014 – 0.043) (−0.006 – 0.040) (0.008) (−0.009 – 0.041)
Hyper ADHD 0.006 0.008 0.018** 0.011
(−0.010 – 0.023) (−0.010 – 0.026) (0.009) (−0.010 – 0.033)
Combined ADHD 0.006 0.005 0.011 0.005
(−0.014 – 0.026) (−0.013 – 0.024) (0.009) (−0.014 – 0.024)
Observations 9613 13645 12635 11959

Just Exogenous: We drop education attainment, indicator for currently in school, grade point average, PVT score, mother’s education attainment, family income, and family structure

Include other Xs: Welfare receipt, whether father ever jailed, and birth weight

Lower ADHD Threshold: Individuals must have 5 symptoms rather than 6.

Robust 95% confidence intervals in parentheses, +10%,

*

5%,

**

1%.

Longitudinal sample weights used.