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Expanding the School Breakfast Program: Impacts on Children's Consumption, Nutrition and Health

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Zaki, Mary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

School meals programs are the front line of defense against childhood hunger, and while the school lunch program is nearly universally available in U.S. public schools, the school breakfast program has lagged behind in terms of availability and participation. In this paper we use experimental...

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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks

Tekin, Erdal; Gershenson, Seth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...

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The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption: Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

Lichtenberg, Frank; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between education and measures of health, but little is known about the mechanisms by which education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated individuals are more likely to adopt new medical...

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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...

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Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement

Lehrer, Steven; Fletcher, Jason M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

While there is a well-established, large positive correlation between mental and physical health and education outcomes, establishing a causal link remains a substantial challenge. Building on findings from the biomedical literature, we exploit specific differences in the genetic code between...

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Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout

Chatterji, Pinka; DeSimone, Jeffrey S - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper estimates the effect of binge and frequent drinking by adolescents on subsequent high school dropout using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Young Adults. We estimate an instrumental variables model with an indicator of any past month alcohol use, which is by...

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Education, Health and Wages

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Greg; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...

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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

Cawley, John; Frisvold, David; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations …-2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability of obesity among 5th graders (in … represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …

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Human Capital Development Before Age Five

Currie, Janet; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This chapter seeks to set out what Economists have learned about the effects of early childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative influences. We begin with a brief overview of the theory which illustrates that evidence of a causal relationship...

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Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous

Butcher, Kristin F.; Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Anderson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In this paper, we investigate the impact of attending school on body weight and obesity. We use school starting age …

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