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Title: Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement
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1. Kaestner, Robert
Grossman, Michael
Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement
Economics of Education Review 28,6 (December 2009): 651–661.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775709000557
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Achievement; Body Mass Index (BMI); Children, Academic Development; Obesity; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); School Progress; Weight

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 between 1986 and 2004.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.
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Kaestner, Robert and Michael Grossman. "Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement ." Economics of Education Review 28,6 (December 2009): 651–661. A.