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 …

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

-city schools that provided teacher training in addition to payments to eleventh- and twelfth- grade students and their teachers for … passing scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Affected students passed more AP exams, were more likely to remain in college … beyond their first and second years, and earned higher wages. Effects are particularly pronounced for Hispanic students who …

Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy … estimates indicate that, for poor children, increases in Head Start spending and increases in public K12 spending each … increases in K12 spending were more efficacious for poor children who were exposed to higher levels of Head Start spending …

The focus of this paper is on functional health status of children in the population. More specifically, we examine a … single aspect of functional health status -- intellectual development of children. In a multivariate context, we examine the … relationships between the health indexes and cognitive development of children from six to 11 years of age in Cycle II of the U …

In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … black and white children and of children from high and low income families, but these differences by no means overwhelmingly … favor the white or high-income children. With respect to differences by race, whether or not they are adjusted for …

white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and … likely to occur among children from high income families. The general finding of small partial income effects is supported by … analysis of gross health differences between children from lower and higher income families. In those cases where significant …