Book/Printed Material Effects of weight on children's educational achievement

Title

• Effects of weight on children's educational achievement

Summary

• "In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by scores on Peabody Individual Achievement Tests in math and reading, and grade attainment. Data for the study came from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children between the ages of 5 and 12. We obtained estimates of the association between weight and achievement using several regression model specifications that controlled for a variety of observed characteristics of the child and his or her mother, and time-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores that are about the same as children with average weight"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Names

• Kaestner, Robert
• Grossman, Michael, 1942-
• National Bureau of Economic Research

Created / Published

• Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2008.

Notes

• -  Title from PDF file as viewed on 6/12/2008.
• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Also available in print.
• -  Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• -  System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Call Number/Physical Location

• HB1

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2008612454
• http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13764 External

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2008612454

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2008612454

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