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Estimating a Theoretically Consistent Human Capital Production Function With an Application to Head Start

Kaestner, Robert; Faundez, Luis F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is...

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Do "skills beget skills"? : evidence on the effect of kindergarten entrance age on the evolution of cognitive and non-cognitive skill gaps in childhood

Lubotsky, Darren; Kaestner, Robert - In: Economics of education review 53 (2016), pp. 194-206

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Effects of the minimum wage on child health

Wehby, George L.; Kaestner, Robert; Lyu, Wei; Dave, Dhaval - In: American Journal of Health Economics : AJHE official … 8 (2022) 3, pp. 412-448

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The effects of child health on marital status and family structure

Corman, Hope; Kaestner, Robert - 1991

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Medicaid expansions and the crowding out of private health insurance

Yazici, Esel Y.; Kaestner, Robert - 1998

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Effects of weight on children's educational achievement

Kaestner, Robert; Grossman, Michael - 2008

"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 …