Effects of weight on children's educational achievement
By: Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman.
Contributors: Grossman, Michael, 1942-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13764; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13764.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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.
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