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

This paper explores the importance of the home and school environments in explaining the gender gap in disruptive … poorly in broken families. In contrast, we find little impact of the early school environment on non-cognitive gaps …

We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …

stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school … the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when … limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity …

exploiting a unique data set in which children's school records are matched to domestic violence cases filed by their parent. To … same school and grade over time. We find that children from troubled families significantly decrease their peers' reading …It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence …

-of-kindergarten inequality than classroom quality. Higher quality classrooms and home investments have a larger effect on children entering …