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Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement

Kaestner, Robert - 2010

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 …

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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral...

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Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment

Kaestner, Robert - 2010

In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status. Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which...

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Education and Health Over the Life Cycle

Kaestner, Robert; Schiman, Cuiping; Ward, Jason M. - 2022

There is little theoretical and empirical research on the effects of education on health over the life cycle. In this article, we extend the Grossman (1972) model of the demand for health and use the extended model to analyze the effect of education on health at different ages. The main...

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Does Publicly Provided Health Insurance Improve the Health of Low-Income Children in the United States

Kaestner, Robert - 2000

provide at best weak support for the hypothesis that Medicaid improves the health of low-income children …In this study we analyze the effect of Medicaid on children's heath. We examine the effect of Medicaid on a variety of … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper …

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