Publications
Missing from the story: The urgent need for better data to protect children on the move. International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), 2021.
My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19 (available in 24 languages). Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2020.
Early Caregiving Intervention Holds Promise for Long-term Improvements in Neural Function Following Adversity." Biological Psychiatry. 85.4 (2019): e15-e16.
"The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis." The Lancet. Public health. 2 (2017): e356-e366.
"Working nonstandard schedules and variable shifts in low-income families: associations with parental psychological well-being, family functioning, and child well-being." Dev Psychol. 43 (2007): 620-32.
"Future Directions in the Study of Early-Life Stress and Physical and Emotional Health: Implications of the Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis." Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53. 47 (2018): 142-156.
"The pathways to prevention project: The first five years, 1999-2004. Sydney, Australia: Mission Australia and the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance. Griffith University, 2006.
Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Fully Revised Third Edition. UNICEF, 2007.
Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults." Lancet (London, England). 371 (2008): 411-6.
"Universal parenting programme to prevent early childhood behavioural problems: cluster randomised trial." BMJ. 336.7639 (2008): 318-21.
"Framing our analysis: A dialectical perspective." Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families. Eds. J. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, and R. Salah. Vol. 15. MIT Press, 2014. 19-25.
Changing How We Live. Spokesman Books, 2011.
The Role of Education in Peacebuilding Country Report: Myanmar. UNICEF Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam Centre for International Education, University of Sussex UNESCO Centre at Ulster University, 2016.
More than Manners: Conflict Resolution in Primary Level Classrooms." Early Childhood Education Journal. 35.2 (2007): 119-126.
"Contact Is Not Enough: An Intergroup Perspective on the Contact Hypothesis." Contact and Conflict in Intergroup Encounters. Eds. M. Hewstone, and R. Brown. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. 1-44.
Emerging Practices in Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation for Education for Peacebuilding Program., 2015.
Child friendly spaces impact across five humanitarian settings: a meta-analysis." BMC Public Health. 19.1 (2019).
"Maternal depression and mental health in early childhood: an examination of underlying mechanisms in low-income and middle-income countries." Lancet Psychiatry. 3 (2016): 983-992.
" Overview of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium’s Early Childhood and Peacebuilding Research and Practice. Early Childhood Peace Consortium, 2023.
Caregiver Psychopathology, Resilience, and Their Associations with Social-Emotional Challenges of Young Children Affected by Armed Conflict in ColombiaAbstract." Child Psychiatry & Human Development (2024).
"Maternal perceptions of father involvement among refugee and disadvantaged families in Beirut, Lebanon." PLOS ONE. 15.3 (2020): e0229670.
"The role of childhood trauma in the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders: preclinical and clinical studies." Biological psychiatry. 49 (2001): 1023-39.
"The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality." Daedalus. 140 (2011): 70-89.
"Social Policy: Targeting programs effectively." Nature human behaviour. 1 (2017).
"The Perry Preschoolers at late midlife: A study in design-specific inference. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.
Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes." Am Econ Rev. 103 (2013): 2052-2086.
" Intergenerational and intragenerational externalities of the Perry Preschool Project. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.
Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children." Science. 312 (2006): 1900-2.
"Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program." Quant Econom. 1 (2010): 1-46.
"Intergenerational Long-Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model." Journal of econometrics. 191 (2016): 164-175.
"Inequality in America: What role for human capital policies?. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104 (2007): 13250-5.
"The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program." J Public Econ. 94 (2010): 114-128.
"The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program." Journal of public economics. 94 (2010): 114-128.
"Intergenerational Long-Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model." J Econom. 191 (2016): 164-175.
"Role of income and family influence on child outcomes." Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1136 (2008): 307-23.
"Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace. University of Texas Press, 2014.
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: myths and mechanisms." Cell. 157.1 (2014): 95-109.
"Increasing Fathers’ Involvement in Child Care With a Couple-Focused Intervention During the Transition to Parenthood." Family Relations. 57.1 (2008): 49-59.
"Culture, Context and the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Syrians: A Review for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support staff working with Syrians Affected by Armed Conflict. Geneva: UNHCR, 2015.
Evaluation of the Better Parenting Programme in Jordan." Early Child Development and Care. 181.5 (2011): 587-598.
"Self-Regulation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Challenges and Future Directions." Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 22.1 (2019): 104-117.
"Poverty, social support, and parental behavior." Child Dev. 65.2 Spec No (1994): 394-403.
"Anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress in Iranian survivors of chemical warfare." JAMA. 296.5 (2006): 560-6.
" The Brain Architects Podcast: COVID-19 Special Edition: A Different World. Boston: Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2020.
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