specific health outcomes or do children more likely to have these health outcomes watch more television? This paper uses a …-level mental retardation rates, county-level autism rates, and county-level children's cable-television subscription rates to …An extensive literature in medicine investigates the health consequences of early childhood television watching …

specific health outcomes or do children more likely to have these health outcomes watch more television? This paper uses a …-level mental retardation rates, county-level autism rates, and county-level children's cable-television subscription rates to …An extensive literature in medicine investigates the health consequences of early childhood television watching …

-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from the 2000 U.S. Census, and USGS data on lead in topsoil covering a … to impair cognition today, both in the United States and in other countries that have considerable lead deposition in …

"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 …