Publications
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Penguin Publishing Group, 2011.
Prenatal attachment: using measurement invariance to test the validity of comparisons across eight culturally diverse countriesAbstract." Archives of Women's Mental Health (2021).
"Maternal Interpersonal Trauma and Child Social-Emotional Development: An Intergenerational Effect." Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 31 (2017): 99-107.
" Violence against children in the time of COVID-19: What we have learned, what remains unknown and the opportunities that lie ahead." Child Abuse & Neglect. 116 (2021): 104776.
"UK Chief Medical Officers' Physical Activity Guidelines. Gov.UK, 2019.
Education and Social Cohesion Country Report: South Africa. Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE)Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)UNICEFAmsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of AmsterdamCentre for International Education, University of Suss, 2016.
How the timing and quality of early experiences influence the development of brain architecture." Child Dev. 81.1 (2010): 28-40.
"The problem of institutionalization of young children and its consequences for efforts to build peaceful societies." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah. The MIT Press, 2014. 145-160.
Experiences of Community Youth Leaders in a Youth-Led Early Childhood Education Program in Rural Pakistan." Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 227.2 (2019): 113-120.
""We would never forget who we are": resettlement, cultural negotiation, and family relationships among Somali Bantu refugees." Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 26 (2017): 1387-1400.
"Group identity as an obstacle and catalyst of peace." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. J. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, and R. Salah. 15th ed. MIT Press, 2014. 79-92.
Webinar Tiempo de cuidarnos: volver a ser niños y niñas.. Fundación CINDE, 2020.
Parenting Matters. Eds. Vivian L. Gadsden, Morgan Ford, and Heather Breiner. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2016.
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research." Journal of Peace Research. 6 (1969): 167-191.
"Violence, peace and peace research." J Peace ResJ Peace Res. 6 (1969): 167-191.
"Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization. SAGE Publications, 1996.
Implication of sperm RNAs in transgenerational inheritance of the effects of early trauma in mice." Nat. Neurosci.. 17.5 (2014): 667-9.
"Infant Language Production and Parenting Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Behavior Therapy. 50.3 (2019): 544-557.
"Boosting Intergenerational Mobility: The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Skills and Social Mobility . Heckman, 2022.
Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early-Childhood Program." Journal of Political Economy (2020): 000.
"Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Basic Books, 2011.
Education for a Civil Society: How Guidance Teaches Young Children Democratic Life Skills. NAEYC, 2012.
The effects of antipoverty programs on children's cumulative level of poverty-related risk." Dev Psychol. 42 (2006): 981-99.
"Maternal education preferences moderate the effects of mandatory employment and education programs on child positive and problem behaviors." Child Dev. 84 (2013): 198-208.
"The voices of children in the global health debate." The Lancet. 395.10224 (2020): 541-542.
"Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016." Lancet. 390 (2017): 1084-1150.
" Studying perceived needs for information on maternal and infant health care in the puerperium period among fathers of newborns in China." Midwifery. 78 (2019): 32-41.
"Brain Matters. A ground-breaking documentary on the critical nature of the early years of life. Genesis Foundation, 2019.
Reflections on Gender, Patriarchy, and Peace: Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) in Afghanistan. Washington D.C.: Promundo-US, UN Women, and Global Affairs Canada, 2018.
Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2021.
Labor market returns to an early childhood stimulation intervention in Jamaica." Science (New York, N.Y.). 344 (2014): 998-1001.
"A Qualitative Study of Mechanisms Underlying Effects of a Parenting Intervention in Rural Liberia." The European Journal of Development Research. 29.5 (2017): 964-982.
"Caseworker-recipient interaction: welfare office differences, economic trajectories, and child outcomes." Child Dev. 83 (2012): 382-98.
"Early Childhood Development in the Global South." Journal of the British Academy. 8.S2 (2020).
"Medical humanitarianism: Research insights in a changing field of practice Introduction." Soc Sci Med. 120 (2014): 311-316.
"Prolactin, Oxytocin, and the development of paternal behavior across the first six months of fatherhood." Horm Behav. 58.3 (2010): 513-8.
"Oxytocin, cortisol, and triadic family interactions." Physiol. Behav.. 101.5 (2010): 679-84.
"Oxytocin and the development of parenting in humans." Biol. Psychiatry. 68.4 (2010): 377-82.
"Oxytocin and cortisol in romantically unattached young adults: associations with bonding and psychological distress." Psychophysiology. 45.3 (2008): 349-52.
"From attachment to groups: tapping into the neurobiology of our interconnectedness." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 53.2 (2014): 130-2.
"Oxytocin and social motivation." Dev Cogn Neurosci. 1.4 (2011): 471-93.
"Breaking the silence on early child care and education costs. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2019.
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