white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and …The objective of this paper is to define the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of … likely to occur among children from high income families. The general finding of small partial income effects is supported by …

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 focus of this paper is on functional health status of children in the population. More specifically, we examine a … single aspect of functional health status -- intellectual development of children. In a multivariate context, we examine the … relationships between the health indexes and cognitive development of children from six to 11 years of age in Cycle II of the U …

The basic purpose of our research is to contribute to an understanding of the joint determination of children … been little work on the latter. We also explore interrelationships between various aspects of children's physical health … retards the cognitive development of children …

advertising on children and adolescents being overweight. The advertising measure used is the number of hours of spot television … reduce the number of overweight children ages 3-11 in a fixed population by 10 percent and would reduce the number of … produce smaller declines of between 3 and 5 percent in these outcomes but would impose lower costs on children and adults who …

aimed" at children. Data on violence come from the 1976 Physical Violence in American Families survey. " We estimate a …

In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … black and white children and of children from high and low income families, but these differences by no means overwhelmingly … favor the white or high-income children. With respect to differences by race, whether or not they are adjusted for …