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 …

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 longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains … within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacher's students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when …

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 …