years of education. Yet while children can be permanently damaged at this age, an important message is that the damage can …

Poor educational attainment relative to non-Latinos is a persistent problem for Latino children. This paper examines … the capacity of the Head Start program to affect test scores and schooling achievement among these children. Large … Latino children and non-Hispanic white children, and 2/3 of the gap in the probability of grade repetition. However, these …

scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions … of lead from even historically low levels have significant positive effects on children's reading test scores in third ….1 percentage points (on a baseline of 12 percent). Moreover, as we show, poor and minority children are more likely to be exposed …

was associated with improvements in emotional functioning or academic outcomes among children with ADHD. We find little …

-SES children reap both larger gains from having high age 7 test scores and smaller losses from having low age 7 test scores. The … opposite is true among high-SES children who suffer larger losses from low scores and smaller gains from high scores. However …

years of education. Yet while children can be permanently damaged at this age, an important message is that the damage can …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

largest for first born children. We also find that women on WIC are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic conditions, and …