. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the … likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM …

insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how …Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For …

the numbers of students who score at or above specified proficiency levels in various subjects. Accountability systems … based on these metrics often provide incentives for teachers and principals to target children near current proficiency … levels for extra attention, but these same systems provide weak incentives to devote extra attention to students who are …

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 …

counties in the U.S. between 1961 and 1975. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assemble unique data linking family …

lead, we examine effects of post-1990 school finance reforms on students' educational attainment and labor market outcomes … high- and low-income districts. Using a state-by-cohort panel design, we find that reforms increased high school completion … and college-going, concentrated among Black students and women, and raised annual earnings. They also increased the return …

institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two …-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are … of students who are unlikely to have been diverted from degree attainment …

as the difference in enrollment share black among students and teachers in a district. There were increases in the share …

, and children's test performance as late as eighth grade. For higher-income families, however, we find that the programs … of family and child outcomes. We find that the state programs have increased the preschool enrollment rates of children … from lower- and higher-income families alike. For lower-income families, our findings also suggest that the programs have …

cutoff dates to compare weight outcomes for similar age children with different years of school exposure. As is the case with … disappear, and most point estimates become negative and insignificant. However, for children not eating the school lunch, there …