-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

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 …

opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the U.S.-born children of … daughters have higher education and wages than the children of natives. Even children of the least- educated immigrant origin … groups have closed most of the education gap with the children of natives …

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

controlling for maternal scores, there are significant gaps in the scores of black and white children which suggests that maternal … scores are not all that matter. In fact, both maternal education and income are important determinants of child test scores …, conditional on maternal AFQT. We argue that racial gaps in test scores matter because even within families, children with higher …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …