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 …

), disputes these findings. The authors conclude that while treatment of children known to be infected increases weight by 0.75 kg … from studies of children known to be infected. The hypothesis of a common zero effect of multiple-dose MDA deworming on … effect on child weight is 0.148 kg (95% CI: 0.039, 0.258). The implied average effect of MDA on infected children in the full …

' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality … rate fell by 22% (17 deaths per 1000 live births) for children of treatment group individuals. We find that a combination …

We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …

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 …

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …