Knowledge Base
This knowledge platform for scholarly publishing is provided by the ECPC. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited based on its relevance to early childhood development, social cohesion, violence prevention and peace promotion, and more. Additional literature will be added as it becomes available.
Long-term effects of early childhood programs on social outcomes and delinquency. Future Child. 1995;5:51-75.
Access to institutional resources as a measure of social exclusion: relations with family process and cognitive development in the context of immigration. New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2008;2008:63-86.
Child development and public policy: toward a dynamic systems perspective. Child Dev. 2001;72:1887-903.
Advancing Methods in Research on Asian American Children and Youth. Child Dev. 2016;87:1033-50.
Commentary: New Directions in Developmentally Informed Intervention Research for Vulnerable Populations. Child Dev. 2017;88:459-465.
Implementation research for early childhood development programming in humanitarian contexts. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2018;1419(1):90-101.
Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. Lancet. 2007;369:60-70.
Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries. Lancet (London, England). 2007;369:60-70.
A home-visiting intervention programme with Jamaican mothers and children. Dev Med Child Neurol. 1975;17(5):605-13.
Effects of early childhood supplementation with and without stimulation on later development in stunted Jamaican children. Am J Clin Nutr. 1997;66(2):247-53.
Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2019;19(1).
Opium trade, insurgency, and HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan: relationships and regional consequences. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2010;22(3 Suppl):159S-167S.
Breastfeeding and family-friendly policies. An evidence brief. New York, NY: UNICEF; 2019.
Childhood Vulnerabilities in South Africa: Some Ethical PerspectivesSeen but not heard? Engaging the mechanisms of faith to end violence against children. Grobbelaar J, Jones C, editors. African Sun Media; 2020.
Long-term economic effect of early childhood nutrition. Lancet. 2008;371:365-6.
History of socioeconomic disadvantage and allostatic load in later life. Soc Sci Med. 2012;74(1):75-83.
Intranasal oxytocin improves emotion recognition for youth with autism spectrum disorders. Biol Psychiatry. 2010;67(7):692-4.
Maternal Inflammation and Neurodevelopmental Programming: A Review of Preclinical Outcomes and Implications for Translational Psychiatry. Biological psychiatry. 2019;85:107-121.
The neurobiology of stress and development. Annu Rev Psychol. 2007;58:145-173.
Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory. Simple Psychology. 2020.
Explore, Engage, Act! Children and young people and the Global Compact on Refugees and Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. United Kingdom: Save the Children; 2018.
Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2010;11(9):651-9.
It’s Okay to Be a Different Kind of Parent During the Pandemic. The Atlantic; 2020.
Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth. Oxford University Press; 2010.
Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis. Soc Sci Med. 2009;68(4):758-65.
The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger's recent food crisis. Disasters. 2009;33:132-51.
The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger's recent food crisis. Disasters. 2009;33(1):132-51.
Policy Briefing Note: Early Childhood Development and Its Promise for Peace. Early Childhood Peace Consortium; 2023.
Policy Briefing Note: Taking Action on the Safety, Well-being, and Development of Children in Conflict/Post Conflict Countries. Early Childhood Peace Consortium; 2023.
ECPC Call-to-Action for Justice, Peace, and the Protection of All Children Affected by the War in Israel and Palestine. Early Childhood Peace Consortium; 2023.
Inflammation: A Proposed Intermediary Between Maternal Stress and Offspring Neuropsychiatric Risk. Biological psychiatry. 2019;85:97-106.
The Brain Architects Podcast: COVID-19 Special Edition: A Different World. Boston: Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University; 2020.
Anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress in Iranian survivors of chemical warfare. JAMA. 2006;296(5):560-6.
Poverty, social support, and parental behavior. Child Dev. 1994;65(2 Spec No):394-403.
Self-Regulation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Challenges and Future Directions. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 2019;22(1):104-117.
Evaluation of the Better Parenting Programme in Jordan. Early Child Development and Care. 2011;181(5):587-598.
Increasing Fathers’ Involvement in Child Care With a Couple-Focused Intervention During the Transition to Parenthood. Family Relations. 2008;57(1):49-59.
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: myths and mechanisms. Cell. 2014;157(1):95-109.
Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace. University of Texas Press; 2014.
The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality. Daedalus. 2011;140:70-89.
Role of income and family influence on child outcomes. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008;1136:307-23.
The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program. J Public Econ. 2010;94:114-128.
The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007;104:13250-5.
Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children. Science. 2006;312:1900-2.
Intergenerational and intragenerational externalities of the Perry Preschool Project. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research; 2019.
The Perry Preschoolers at late midlife: A study in design-specific inference. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research; 2019.
Social Policy: Targeting programs effectively. Nature human behaviour. 2017;1.
The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program. Journal of public economics. 2010;94:114-128.
Intergenerational Long-Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model. Journal of econometrics. 2016;191:164-175.
Inequality in America: What role for human capital policies?. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press; 2003.
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