from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …

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 …

harms students' human capital accumulation. The economics literature has largely ignored the reasons for and desirability of … researchers make higher education more costly for low-ability students than do non-research faculty, achieving the separation more …

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes … including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable. We find that, on average, parents … families in higher-income schools …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents' education and children's education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely …