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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 Arrest Arrest Arrest Arrest
Specification Baseline No Census data just exo Drop PVT/GPA
Inattentive ADHD 0.022 0.020 0.049** 0.048**
(−0.023 – 0.068) (−0.024 – 0.064) (0.004 – 0.095) (0.002 – 0.093)
Hyper ADHD 0.064*** 0.070*** 0.083*** 0.079***
(0.016 – 0.111) (0.023 – 0.118) (0.030 – 0.135) (0.029 – 0.129)
Combined ADHD 0.042* 0.047** 0.074*** 0.059**
(−0.001 – 0.086) (0.003 – 0.091) (0.026 – 0.122) (0.013 – 0.105)
Observations 12654 13149 14208 13655
Outcome Arrest Arrest Arrest arrestw3 U25
Specification Include Other Xs Drop Educ/Family Vars Lower ADHD Bar Drop Older Kids
Inattentive ADHD 0.039 0.040* 0.025 0.013
(−0.012 – 0.089) (−0.004 – 0.083) (0.019) (−0.032 – 0.058)
Hyper ADHD 0.059** 0.077*** 0.045*** 0.065***
(0.006 – 0.113) (0.026 – 0.128) (0.016) (0.016 – 0.114)
Combined ADHD 0.028 0.051** 0.045** 0.029
(−0.017 – 0.074) (0.007 – 0.096) (0.018) (−0.015 – 0.072)
Observations 9635 13664 12654 11974

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.