,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …

between two possible explanations. The first is that low-SES children are less able to respond to a given health shock. The … second is that low SES children experience more shocks. We show, using panel data on Canadian children that: 1) the gradient … we estimate in the cross section is very similar to that estimated previously using U.S. children; 2) both high and low …

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 …

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One … channel through which increased income may operate is an improvement in a family's ability to provide food, shelter, clothing … investigated the relationship between income and the psychological wellbeing of the family. By reducing stress and conflict, more …

, second we use a variety of measures of infant health, and finally we track children through their schooling years and into …

We study the relationship between in utero exposure to military exercises and children's early-life health outcomes in …

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 …