insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how …Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For …

This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children … time and across ages in children's health insurance eligibility. Using this approach, we find that test scores in reading …, but not math, increased for those children affected at birth by increased health insurance eligibility. A 50 percentage …

counties in the U.S. between 1961 and 1975. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assemble unique data linking family …

institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two …-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are … of students who are unlikely to have been diverted from degree attainment …

as the difference in enrollment share black among students and teachers in a district. There were increases in the share …

conclude that the sizeable increase in income from Food Stamp benefits improved birth outcomes for both whites and African …

We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were …

, provides a hot breakfast before school (typically served in the school's cafeteria) to all students regardless of their income … breakfast to all children to be eaten in the classroom during the first few minutes of the school day. We find both policies … or consumption of multiple breakfasts and relatively little of the increase is from students gaining access to breakfast …

This paper investigates how accountability pressures under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) may affect children's rate of … unintended consequences for children's health. For example, schools may cut back on recess and physical education in favor of … schools in Arkansas that allows us to test the impact of NCLB rules on students' weight outcomes. Our main approach is to …