The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …

We make use of a new data resource, merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 …, to study the effects of birth weight on cognitive development from kindergarten through schooling. Using twin fixed … effects models, we find that the effects of birth weight on cognitive development are essentially constant through the school …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health.Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is … associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …