Citation
Hartge, Joseph (2015). Mental Disorders' Impact on Labor Market Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from ADHD.
Abstract
This thesis contributes to the existing empirical research on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder's (ADHD) in uence on labor market outcomes. Two metrics, earnings and job termination, are used to measure labor market outcomes, and the latter has not been tested in the existing literature. In addition to using ADHD as a binary variable, the age of diagnosis is employed to capture a fuller effect of having the disorder in the labor market. Overall, results argue that agents who are diagnosed between ages 5 and 14 can completely overcome any negative effect that ADHD has on earnings, on average, compared to agents who do not have ADHD. Being diagnosed after age 14, however, yields on average lower wages compared to non-ADHD agents. Interestingly, results also argue that an earlier age of diagnosis increases the agent's probability of being red compared to a later diagnosis.
URL
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file%3Faccession%3Douhonors1429893077%26disposition%3Dattachment&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0lx6V592R4yABQGW0esisJurSfOw&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrtReference Type
Thesis/Dissertation
Book Title
Economics
Author(s)
Hartge, Joseph
Year Published
2015
Volume Number
B.S.
Publisher
Ohio University
Reference ID
5659
