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

scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions … of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third ….1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed …

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 …

children are manifested beginning in early childhood. In 2010, black asthma rates were double non-black rates. Some but not all … records of all children born in New Jersey between 2006 and 2010, we show that when we split the data by whether or not … children live in a "black" zip code, this racial difference in the incidence of asthma among LBW children entirely disappears …