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 …

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 …

We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were …

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 … disadvantaged children, obesity rates are closer to 20%. In this paper, we first examine the impact of various measures of …

In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs … social safety net for children since 1990 have gone to families with earnings, and to families with income above the poverty … find that access to safety net programs during childhood leads to benefits for children and society over the long run. This …

breakfast to all children to be eaten in the classroom during the first few minutes of the school day. We find both policies …

relatively low levels of education -- the demographic group that was most affected by the CTC expansion. For the 2021 CTC …