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- W72416096 abstract "Childhood obesity is a major public health issue in the United States and other industrialized countries. The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that 16 percent of children and adolescents ages 6-19 in the United States are overweight based on data from 1999-2002, a 45 percent increase from a similar survey covering the period 1988-1994. While most of the press and policy attention on issues of weight focus on the consequences of being overweight, there is also evidence of negative outcomes associated with being underweight. For example, underweight boys are more likely than average weight boys to dislike school and consider themselves poor students (Falkner et al., Obesity Research, January 2001). In this paper we explore the association between student BMI (with underweight and overweight as special cases) and academic achievement. We examine whether students who are in the tails of the BMI distribution have test scores that are, on average, different from students who are in the recommended range of the BMI. We also estimate how this relationship varies by gender and racial groups. Our study uses a unique data source to examine the problems associated with high and low body-mass index (BMI) values for children and adolescents. The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) recently released the results of the Child Development Supplement (CDS I and II). The CDS was developed to gain additional information and understanding of the process of human capital formation within households. 2,017 families provide data on 2,908 children/adolescents aged 5-18 years. We focus on the link between educational outcomes and BMI, controlling for a rich set of observable variables about the individual and his or her family. The CDS includes several measures of cognitive ability which we use as outcome variables: symbolic learning, comprehension and vocabulary skills, and mathematics. Preliminary estimates suggest that children whose BMI is in the tails of the distribution have lower test scores than students who are not in the tails of the BMI distribution. Interestingly, underweight students perform significantly worse on achievement tests than overweight children, which suggests that policy makers should focus on meeting the needs of underweight as well as overweight children." @default.
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- W72416096 title "Examining the Link between Youth Body Mass Index and Student Achievement" @default.
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