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 focus of this paper is on functional health status of children in the population. More specifically, we examine 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 …

white children aged 6 to 11 years residing in those families. The partial effects of family income on health are1l and … likely to occur among children from high income families. The general finding of small partial income effects is supported by … analysis of gross health differences between children from lower and higher income families. In those cases where significant …

retards the cognitive development of children …The basic purpose of our research is to contribute to an understanding of the joint determination of children …'s cognitive development and their health. Although there is a large literature concerning the first of these issues, there has …

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 …

This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan …. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from six to nine years. From that year through 1973, the …

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 …