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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 Convicted Convicted Convicted Convicted
Specification Baseline No Census data just exog Drop PVT/GPA
Inattentive ADHD 0.002 0.004 0.020** 0.011*
(−0.006 – 0.010) (−0.006 – 0.014) (0.002 – 0.038) (−0.000 – 0.022)
Hyper ADHD 0.009 0.013* 0.019** 0.013*
(−0.003 – 0.020) (−0.001 – 0.026) (0.001 – 0.038) (−0.001 – 0.027)
Combined ADHD 0.008 0.008 0.019* 0.011
(−0.005 – 0.020) (−0.006 – 0.021) (−0.003 – 0.041) (−0.005 – 0.027)
Observations 12723 13222 14294 13736
Outcome Convicted Convicted Convicted Convicted
Specification Include Other Xs Drop Educ/Family Vars Lower ADHD Bar Drop Older Kids
Inattentive ADHD 0.004 0.009* 0.004 0.002
(−0.005 – 0.013) (−0.001 – 0.019) (0.004) (−0.006 – 0.011)
Hyper ADHD 0.010 0.012* 0.002 0.004
(−0.004 – 0.024) (−0.001 – 0.025) (0.003) (−0.006 – 0.014)
Combined ADHD 0.004 0.008 0.004 0.008
(−0.010 – 0.017) (−0.005 – 0.021) (0.004) (−0.005 – 0.021)
Observations 9647 13745 12723 12039

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.