While there is a well-established, large positive correlation between mental and physical health and education outcomes … health conditions on academic outcomes. We present evidence of large impacts of poor mental health on academic achievement … poor health. Finally, our sensitivity analysis suggests that these differences in specific portions of the genetic code …

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 …

significantly reduced the proportion of children stunted, while cash alone had no impact on stunting. SBCC appears to have worked in … conjunction with cash to reduce stunting by encouraging mothers to increase children's total calories and protein consumed. The …

was not due to increased health and welfare expenditures, but instead to improved governance. Treatment effects are … comparable to those of conventional child health interventions, though conventional programs are likely infeasible in this …

significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …

We use data on all middle and high school-aged children who survived a mass shooting incident on July 22, 2011 in Utoya …-in-differences design to compare survivors to a matched control group, we find that in the short run children who survive have substantially … lower GPA (nearly 0.5 SD), increased health visits, and more mental health diagnoses (nearly 400% increase). In the medium …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected American children, including disruptions to their care and school … settings. Children attending in-person child care or school have contended with unpredictable closures and time in remote … investigated the frequency and consequences of disruptions to children's child care and school arrangements during fall 2020. The …

The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and …" patients often has minimal impacts. This paper shows that reliance on information about relatives' health can perpetuate … marginal diagnoses across family members, thereby raising caseloads and health care costs, but without improving patient well …