There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

years of education. Yet while children can be permanently damaged at this age, an important message is that the damage can …

use names and birth dates to link the records of mothers and children. We also identify mothers who are siblings. We show … that there is a strong intergenerational correlation in the birth weight of mothers and children, but that a measure of … household income at the time of the mother's birth is also predictive of low birth weight and that there is an interaction …

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

years of education. Yet while children can be permanently damaged at this age, an important message is that the damage can …

between two possible explanations. The first is that low-SES children are less able to respond to a given health shock. The … second is that low SES children experience more shocks. We show, using panel data on Canadian children that: 1) the gradient … we estimate in the cross section is very similar to that estimated previously using U.S. children; 2) both high and low …

Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes …. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression … representative samples of children from both countries. Second, we focus on "screeners" that were administered to all children in our …

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 …

Poor educational attainment relative to non-Latinos is a persistent problem for Latino children. This paper examines … the capacity of the Head Start program to affect test scores and schooling achievement among these children. Large … Latino children and non-Hispanic white children, and 2/3 of the gap in the probability of grade repetition. However, these …

was associated with improvements in emotional functioning or academic outcomes among children with ADHD. We find little …