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. 2019 May 2;20(7):949–967. doi: 10.1007/s10198-019-01055-0

Table 9.

The relationship between the polygenic risk score (PRS) for ADHD and labor market outcomes (random effects panel regressions)

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Employed Log of earnings Log of household wealth Receiving social security disability benefits Receiving unemployment or worker compensation Receiving other governmental transfers
Panel E: females and males aged 50–55 (N individuals  = 6279, N individual-wave  = 12,907)
PRS for ADHD − 0.090 (0.059) − 0.157*** (0.047) − 0.139*** (0.022) 0.049 (0.153) 0.063 (0.064) 0.305*** (0.107)
Age − 0.133*** (0.025) − 0.154*** (0.017) 0.056*** (0.005) 0.262*** (0.073) 0.002 (0.031) 0.079 (0.049)
Female − 1.030*** (0.128) − 0.807*** (0.096) 0.265*** (0.044) − 1.071*** (0.317) − 0.948*** (0.132) − 1.559*** (0.225)
With a partner − 0.704*** (0.167) − 0.957*** (0.126) 1.002*** (0.048) − 1.584*** (0.385) − 0.274 (0.183) − 1.269*** (0.255)
Number of living children − 0.021 (0.032) − 0.015 (0.026) − 0.083*** (0.011) 0.106 (0.078) 0.053 (0.035) 0.236*** (0.053)
Self-reported health (excellent) Reference Reference Reference Reference Reference Reference
Self-reported health (very good) 0.002 (0.127) 0.064 (0.087) − 0.099*** (0.028) − 0.455 (0.619) 0.271* (0.154) 0.598** (0.290)
Self-reported health (good) − 0.177 (0.142) − 0.114 (0.100) − 0.240*** (0.034) 0.726 (0.575) 0.457*** (0.165) 1.020*** (0.300)
Self-reported health (fair) − 0.861*** (0.180) − 0.651*** (0.137) − 0.385*** (0.046) 2.178*** (0.590) 0.352 (0.219) 1.724*** (0.340)
Self-reported health (poor) − 2.922*** (0.279) − 2.320*** (0.217) − 0.803*** (0.073) 3.244*** (0.626) 0.742** (0.308) 2.215*** (0.424)
Health limits work 0.069*** (0.007) 0.078*** (0.005) 0.032*** (0.002) − 0.095*** (0.019) − 0.020*** (0.007) − 0.060*** (0.012)
Tenure in current occupation − 2.977*** (0.140) − 2.019*** (0.105) − 0.227*** (0.035) 6.691*** (0.520) 0.397** (0.157) 1.690*** (0.220)
Log of spousal earnings 0.044*** (0.011) 0.088*** (0.008) 0.008*** (0.003) − 0.069** (0.032) 0.002 (0.013) − 0.125*** (0.022)
Principal component 1 9.975 (6.741) 5.754 (5.196) 8.287*** (2.388) 5.470 (17.667) − 8.145 (7.367) 20.898* (12.527)
Principal component 2 5.823 (6.340) − 4.013 (5.032) − 10.992*** (2.313) 36.536* (19.755) − 16.741*** (6.371) 19.063 (12.666)
Principal component 3 1.228 (6.332) − 5.490 (5.083) − 2.498 (2.337) − 17.437 (16.239) − 5.458 (6.790) 7.116 (11.119)
Principal component 4 − 0.782 (6.529) − 0.903 (5.141) − 1.155 (2.364) − 25.878 (18.539) − 5.274 (6.980) − 6.012 (11.917)
Principal component 5 − 7.386 (6.778) − 3.702 (5.194) − 15.631*** (2.385) 9.389 (17.812) 4.889 (7.380) 14.785 (12.461)
Principal component 6 − 2.073 (6.195) − 2.903 (4.935) − 3.501 (2.272) 8.650 (15.627) − 1.037 (6.650) 3.611 (10.869)
Principal component 7 − 0.263 (6.385) 1.448 (5.089) − 1.051 (2.336) − 3.400 (16.721) 2.006 (6.851) − 6.162 (11.344)
Principal component 8 − 3.637 (6.209) 2.070 (4.949) 4.027* (2.272) − 20.326 (16.023) − 1.847 (6.671) 0.720 (10.878)
Principal component 9 4.687 (6.256) 6.370 (4.989) − 1.655 (2.293) − 6.778 (16.253) 0.381 (6.745) 3.827 (11.057)
Principal component 10 − 7.066 (6.309) − 10.118** (5.048) 2.230 (2.316) 24.516 (16.473) 2.390 (6.822) 28.212** (11.375)
Constant 11.038*** (1.369) 16.193*** (0.920) 7.678*** (0.276) − 23.004*** (4.105) − 4.062** (1.666) − 9.862*** (2.626)

Full regression results for Table 2 (Panel E)

Standard errors in parentheses

***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.10