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Racial-Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between an Early Elementary School ADHD Diagnosis and Later Child Well-Being

Jayanti Owens, Xinyan Cao
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2024, 10 (1) 205-228; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.09
Jayanti Owens
aAssistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, United States
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bDoctoral student in sociology at Brown University, United States
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