from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children … the same source, reach markedly different conclusions about income-health gradients in childhood. We find that differences …

schooling has had a chance to play a role -- and throughout childhood, taller children perform significantly better on cognitive … children are much more likely to become tall adults. As adults, taller individuals are more likely to select into higher paying …

of socioeconomic status may work through the impact of parents' long run average income on children's health … Examination Survey, we find that children's health is positively related to household income. The relationship between household … income and children's health status becomes more pronounced as children grow older. A large component of the relationship …

unwed parents. These children are the fastest growing group of children in the US, and they are the least likely to receive …We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine trends in child support payments over the past … suggest that further gains in child support payments will rest with our ability to collect child support for children born to …

Income Dynamics (PSID). We find that children raised by step, adoptive or foster mothers obtain significantly less education …In this paper we compare the educational attainment of birth and non-birth children of women in the Panel Study of … on average than do the birth children of the same women. Controlling for the women's fixed effects, the non …