insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how …Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For …

-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regression-discontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …

college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …

for children of white mothers, of mothers with more education, and of mothers with a high income level. Applying our …This paper investigates whether children are more or less likely to be overweight if their mothers work. The prevalence … of both overweight children and working mothers has risen dramatically over the past few decades, although these parallel …

This paper investigates how accountability pressures under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) may affect children's rate of … unintended consequences for children's health. For example, schools may cut back on recess and physical education in favor of … schools in Arkansas that allows us to test the impact of NCLB rules on students' weight outcomes. Our main approach is to …

cutoff dates to compare weight outcomes for similar age children with different years of school exposure. As is the case with … disappear, and most point estimates become negative and insignificant. However, for children not eating the school lunch, there …