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support for an entire school year. We find that READY4K! positively affected the extent to which parents engaged in home … literacy activities with their children by 0.22 to 0.34 standard deviations, as well as parental involvement at school by 0 ….13 to 0.19 standard deviations. Increases in parental activity at home and school translated into student learning gains in …
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-cost drugs, some have challenged the view that mass school-based deworming should be a policy priority. We review well … United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the … future tax revenue, which may exceed the cost of the program. Our analysis suggests that the economic benefits of school …
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There is a large and robust correlation between adult health and education, part of which likely reflects causality running from education into health. Less clear is whether education obtained later in life is as valuable for health as are earlier years of schooling, or whether education raises...
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possibly even grows over time. In contrast, students' college GPA is not influenced by roommates' high school grades, admission …
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attenuated by individual differences in school attachment and general deviance. However, difference-in-difference estimates …
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In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by scores on Peabody Individual Achievement Tests in math and reading, and grade attainment. Data for the study came from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...
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school-aged children who were of low birthweight. We examine a number of indicators of school performance, health, and … special education. The latter category is meant to examine children who have not been identified as having problems in school … which require special services. We find that low birthweight children are more likely to perform poorly in school than their …
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Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. I use...
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Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able than to take advantage of technological advances in...
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Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self-reported health, life satisfaction, obesity, smoking and drinking. While this variation has been documented previously, the reasons why the effect of education on income, health...
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