Between 1940 and 1980, the average school attainment of black men increased by about 1.5 years every decade, about .5 years more than for white men. Similarly, over the same period real income more than quadrupled for black men, while increasing two-and-one-half times for white men. However,...

Child health is widely perceived to affect strongly schooling. But evidence is quite limited because numerous studies based on socioeconomic surveys fail to consider the endogeneity of child health, measurement error, and the impact of unobserved fixed and choice inputs. This paper shows that a...