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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 Robbery Robbery Robbery Robbery
Specification Baseline No Census data just exo Drop PVT/GPA
Inattentive ADHD 0.005 0.009 0.011 0.004
(−0.017 – 0.028) (−0.014 – 0.032) (−0.014 – 0.036) (−0.016 – 0.025)
Hyper ADHD 0.016 0.021** 0.019* 0.013
(−0.003 – 0.035) (0.000 – 0.042) (−0.001 – 0.038) (−0.003 – 0.029)
Combined ADHD 0.017 0.015 0.021* 0.017
(−0.004 – 0.038) (−0.005 – 0.035) (−0.003 – 0.046) (−0.004 – 0.038)
Observations 12632 13129 14187 13632
Outcome Robbery Robbery Robbery Robbery
Specification Include Other Xs Drop Educ/Family Vars Lower ADHD Bar Drop Older Kids
Inattentive ADHD 0.005 0.004 −0.001 0.006
(−0.019 – 0.029) (−0.018 – 0.027) (0.006) (−0.018 – 0.029)
Hyper ADHD 0.021* 0.013 0.013** 0.019*
(−0.001 – 0.042) (−0.004 – 0.029) (0.006) (−0.002 – 0.040)
Combined ADHD 0.018 0.018* 0.015* 0.015
(−0.005 – 0.040) (−0.003 – 0.040) (0.008) (−0.006 – 0.036)
Observations 9613 13641 12632 11954

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%