rapidly among black students than among whites, at least in part because black Head Start" children are more likely to …Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects on test scores fade out …' more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper uses data from the 1988 wave of the National …

The effect of class size on student achievement has long been of concern to educators, parents, and scholars. In … gains from small classes are largest for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Besides being of metho- dological interest …

through which these peer effects operate. We identify as low ability students those who are enrolled at least one year behind … repeaters and regular students. The status of repeaters is mostly determined by first grade; therefore, it is unlikely to have … variation in the proportion of these low ability students across cohorts of middle and high school students in Israel, we find …

suggest that increased school resources and students' spending more time at school and on key tasks all lead to increased … strategies. The evidence also shows that a longer school week increases the time that students spend on homework without reducing …

rule that uses data on students' birthdays to compute statutory enrollment in the absence of enrollment manipulation also …

Does the intellectual endowment of children affect parents' fertility choices? The quantity-quality model of fertility … predicts that a positive (negative) shock to child endowment increases (decreases) parental demand for children. We test these … predictions using Israeli data on intellectually gifted and intellectually disabled children. Because families with an exceptional …

In western countries, accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children, far surpassing diseases as a … maternal employment on unintentional injuries to children vary by demographic group, with the effects being positive for blacks … winners and losers. In particular, while some children may benefit from safer environments, others that appear to be squeezed …

Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for … care. We examine the effects of these three types of policies (changes in income eligibility, administrative reforms, and ….S. births between 1990 and 1996. We find that increases in income cutoffs increased the use of prenatal care, while decreases in …

Distance to hospital may affect the utilization of primary preventative care if children rely on hospitals for such … utilization of preventative care among central-city black children. For these children, each additional mile from the hospital is …, suggesting that even black urban children with private health insurance may have difficulty obtaining access to preventative care …

One of the goals of federal housing policy is to improve the prospects of children in poor families. But little … research has been conducted into the effects of participation in housing programs on children, perhaps because it is difficult … educational attainment of children. We first use administrative data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to …