Publications
"Introducing the issue, ‘School readiness: Closing racial and ethnic gaps’." The Future of Children. 15 (2005): 5-14.
"Intrusive images in psychological disorders: characteristics, neural mechanisms, and treatment implications." Psychol Rev. 117.1 (2010): 210-32.
"Investing in early human development: timing and economic efficiency." Econ Hum BiolEcon Hum Biol. 7 (2009): 1-6.
"Investing in early human development: timing and economic efficiency." Economics and human biology. 7 (2009): 1-6.
"Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development." Lancet. 389 (2017): 103-118.
"Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development." Lancet (London, England). 389 (2017): 103-118.
Investing in Young Children Globally for Peaceful Societies: Proceedings of a Joint Workshop. Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally (iYCG), UNICEF, King Abdulla Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, 2016.
"Investment in child and adolescent health and development: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition." Lancet. 391 (2018): 687-699.
"Investment in early childhood development." Lancet. 384 (2014): 1244-5.
Investment in Equity and Peacebuilding: South Africa Case Study. Washington, DC: FHI 360 Education Policy and Data Center, 2015.
Investment in Equity and Peacebuilding: Uganda Case Study. Washington, DC: FHI 360 Education Policy and Data Center, 2015.
"Investment in Humans, Technological Diffusion, and Economic Growth." The American Economic Review. 56 (1966): 69-75.
IOM manual on community-based mental health and psychosocial support in emergencies and displacement. Geneva, Switzerland: nternational Organization for Migration, 2019.
It’s Okay to Be a Different Kind of Parent During the Pandemic. The Atlantic, 2020.
"Japan's emerging challenge for child abuse: system coordination for early prevention of child abuse is needed." Bioscience trends. 8 (2014): 240-1.
The Jigsaw Classroom: Building Cooperation in the Classroom. Longman, 1997.
Journal of Peace Psychology., 2021.
Journal of Peace Research., 2015.
Justice and Conflict." The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice. Eds. M. Deutsch, et al. Wiley, 2011. 43-68.
Keeping the promise: Ending violence against children by 2030. New York City: Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, 2019.
Key results from the first forty years of the Cambridge Study in delinquent development." Taking stock of delinquency: An overview of findings from contemporary longitudinal studies. Eds. T. P. Thornberry, and M. Krohn. New York, NY: Kluwer, 2003. 137-184.
"Labor market returns to an early childhood stimulation intervention in Jamaica." Science (New York, N.Y.). 344 (2014): 998-1001.
"Landscape Analysis of Early Childhood Development and Education in Emergencies." Journal on Education in Emergencies. 8.1 (2022): 138.
"Latency development in children of primary nurturing fathers. Eight-year follow-up." Psychoanal Study Child. 47 (1992): 85-101.
LEAPS: a strategy to benefit young children and youth. Early Childhood Matters, .2019. Hague, The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2019.
Learning for Peace: Lessons learned from UNICEF’s Peacebuilding, Education, and Advocacy in Conflict-Affected Context Programme. Eds. Nikola Balvin, and Daniel J. Christie. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Learning for Peace narratives from the field: A compendium of programme statistics 2012/2016. New York City: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2018.
Learning to Live Together in Peace from Early Childhood. Madrid, Spain: AMEI-WAECE Publications, 2006.
Lebanon: Children’s future on the line. UNICEF, 2021.
"Less is more: meta-analyses of sensitivity and attachment interventions in early childhood." Psychol Bull. 129.2 (2003): 195-215.
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for tackling the climate crisis. From uniting behind the science to the power of small actions. UNICEF, 2020.
"Lessons Learned From the Supporting Father Involvement Study: A Cross-Cultural Preventive Intervention for Low-Income Families With Young Children." Journal of Social Service Research. 35 (2009): 163-179.
Levels, Trends, and Determinants of Child Maltreatment in the Western Cape Province." The State of the Population in the Western Cape Province. Eds. R. Marindo, and S.K. Gaisie. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2008. 97-125.
"Leveraging Caregivers to Provide Remote Early Childhood Education in Hard-to-Access Settings in Lebanon: Impacts From a Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (2024): 1-31.
Life Feeds on Hope: Family mental health, culture, and resilience." Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace. Eds. Jennifer Heath, and Ashraf Zahedi. Vol. 226-238. University of Texas Press, 2014.
"Life in groups: the roles of oxytocin in mammalian sociality." Front Behav Neurosci. 7 (2013): 185.
Life skills and financial education for peace. Aflatoun International, 2019.
"The lifelong effects of early childhood adversity and toxic stress." Pediatrics. 129 (2012): e232-46.
Lifetime Effects: The High/Scope Perry Preschool Study Through Age 40. High/Scope Press, 2005.
"Linking child survival and child development for health, equity, and sustainable development." Lancet (London, England). 381 (2013): 1514-5.
"Linking child survival and child development for health, equity, and sustainable development." Lancet. 381.9877 (2013): 1514-5.
Linking family-friendly policies to women's economic empowerment. An evidence brief. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2019.
Linking peacebuilding and child development: A basic framework." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah. The MIT Press, 2014. 323-338.
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