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

household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7 …-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of children were able to add two single digits, and just 19% were able … to read and comprehend a simple word. Our unannounced school checks found 72% of enrolled children in grades 1 …

. We conduct a field experiment to elicit time preferences of over 1,200 children ages 3-12, who make several intertemporal … that time preferences evolve substantially during this period, with younger children displaying more impatience than older … children. We also find a strong association with race: black children, relative to white or Hispanic children, are more …

reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized …Parent engagement with their children plays an important role in children's eventual economic success and numerous … little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or …

contributions include using a broad sample of children and estimating sibling fixed effects models to control for unobserved family … effects. In this paper we look at a sample of older children and confirm and extend many of the JCMS findings in terms of a …

,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …

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 quot;screenersquot; that were administered to all …

. We examine U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most common … child mental health problem. Our innovations include the use of large nationally representative samples of children, the use … of questions administered to all children rather than focusing only on diagnosed cases, and the use of sibling fixed …

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 …