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

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

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 …

students who survive them, highlighting the impact of indiscriminate, high-fatality incidents. Initially, we focus on test …, such as those that occurred at Sandy Hook and Columbine, have considerable adverse effects on students exposed to them. We …

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

rapidly among black students than among whites, at least in part because black Head Start" children are more likely to …Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out …' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National …

disadvantaged students to attend private schools of their choice. We exploit random assignment of LSP vouchers at oversubscribed …

We examine the extent to which children are exposed to the welfare system through their mother's receipt of benefits … Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that children's welfare exposure is substantial. By age 10 over one-third of all … children will have lived in a welfare household; black, non-Hispanic children face a much higher rate of exposure. Simple …

difference-in-differences strategy to account for unobserved differences between students with access to SBP and those without … findings. First, the SBP helps students build good eating habits: SBP increases scores on the healthy eating index, reduces the … serum micronutrient deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin E, and folate, and it increases the probability that children meet …