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 …

During the 1990s many states extended Medicaid eligibility to low-income parents who were not receiving welfare. We … increased the coverage of children, presumably by raising the benefit to the family of applying for coverage. We find …

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

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 …

scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions … of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third ….1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed …