. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how …Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For …

This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children … time and across ages in children's health insurance eligibility. Using this approach, we find that test scores in reading …, but not math, increased for those children affected at birth by increased health insurance eligibility. A 50 percentage …

counties in the U.S. between 1961 and 1975. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assemble unique data linking family …

indicate strong selectivity of test-takers in "ACT states," where most college-bound students take the ACT, and much less …

as the difference in enrollment share black among students and teachers in a district. There were increases in the share …

cutoff dates to compare weight outcomes for similar age children with different years of school exposure. As is the case with … disappear, and most point estimates become negative and insignificant. However, for children not eating the school lunch, there …

conclude that the sizeable increase in income from Food Stamp benefits improved birth outcomes for both whites and African …

We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were …

social safety net for children since 1990 have gone to families with earnings, and to families with income above the poverty …In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs … find that access to safety net programs during childhood leads to benefits for children and society over the long run. This …