children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from "objectively measured" health problems - except for … obesity. There is some evidence, however, that high income children are better able to cope with the adverse consequences of …

allowing the marginal effects on children’s outcomes of an increase in family income to vary across the income distribution …. Our nonlinear IV and fixed-effect estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children …

measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children … $2,100, between 1993 and 1997. Using a panel of roughly 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National … math and reading test scores by 6% of a standard deviation in the short-run. Test gains are larger for children from …