In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by … 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …

The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender … children. In contrast, there are no penalties for men who were headstrong or for women who were dependent. While other child …

provide at best weak support for the hypothesis that Medicaid improves the health of low-income children …In this study we analyze the effect of Medicaid on children's heath. We examine the effect of Medicaid on a variety of … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper …

achievement of children between the ages of five and nine. We estimate both cross sectional and fixed effects models using data …

that children in poor health will, more likely, face obstacles beyond their illness, since they will also be more likely to … mitigating factor is that, for white children, they will be more likely than healthy children to living in an extended family …

, are other consequences of the minimum wage that stem from changes in a household's income and labor supply. We examine the … effects of the minimum wage on child health. We employ data from the National Survey of Children's Health in conjunction with …

income …