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

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 …

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 …

the population health of local children. We demonstrate that the tax reduced ambient air pollution by 5 to 15 percent, and … young children. The change in health was more gradual than the change in pollution suggesting that it may take time for the …