This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …

intergenerational transmission is most significant when both parents are obese or overweight, and the effects size increases with child …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child … childhood developmental outcomes, and only maternal smoking and drinking during pregnancy have some effects on child height. Not … surprisingly, family child-rearing environment has sizeable negative and positive effects on behavioral problems index and math …

difference-in-differences strategy which exploits a birth date cut-off determining whether a child became eligible for birthright …

-month curriculum intervention has effects on child development at post-intervention and the effects persist one year following the end …