wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does …

In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by … 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …

students' lifetime income by more than $250,000 for the average class- room in our sample. We conclude that good teachers …Are teachers' impacts on students' test scores ("value-added") a good measure of their quality? This question has …' impacts on student achievement and (2) whether high-VA teachers improve students' long-term outcomes. We address these two …

children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years …

-experimental design based on changes in teaching staff. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find …

In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their … impacts. First, students in small classes are significantly more likely to attend college and exhibit improvements on other …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …

mobility. If children with low-SES parents were to grow up in counties with economic connectedness comparable to that of the … upward income mobility identified to date, whereas other social capital measures are not strongly associated with economic … average child with high-SES parents, their incomes in adulthood would increase by 20% on average. Differences in economic …

outcomes, such as lower rates of upward income mobility. Here, we analyze the determinants of cross-class interaction using …-SES friendships (economic connectedness). Using fluctuations in the share of high-SES students across high school cohorts, we show …