from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children … the same source, reach markedly different conclusions about income-health gradients in childhood. We find that differences …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …

-run peer quality improvements within schools, on the same population. While students at schools with higher-achieving peers …

are strained, public schools can employ cost-saving measures with no ill-effect on students. We theorize that if budget …

teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results …

access to the lessons increased students' math achievement by 0.06 of a standard deviation, but providing teachers with … online access to the lessons along with supports to promote their use increased students' math achievement by 0.09 of a …

Using value-added models, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by …

allow for much more credible causal claims. Focusing on studies of students in the United States, this paper briefly …