Articles
Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries (with Lia C.H. Fernald, Harold Alderman, Jere Behrman, Chloe O'Gara, Aisha Yousafzai, Meena Cabral de Mello, Melissa Hidrobo, Nurper Ulkuer, Ilgi Ertem, and Selim Iltus), The Lancet (2011)
This report is the second in a Series on early child development in low-income and...
Use of Family Care Indicators and Their Relationship with Child Development in Bangladesh (with Jena D. Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, Afroza Hilaly, Syed N. Huda, and Sally M. Grantham-McGregor), Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (2010)
Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of...
Maternal Depression: A Global Threat to Children’s Health, Development, and Behavior and to Human Rights (with Theodore D. Wachs and Maureen M. Black), Child Development Perspectives (2009)
Depressive disorders are a common source of disability among women. In addition to the economic...
The Effect of Poverty on Child Development and Educational Outcomes (with Maureen M. Black), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2008)
Poverty affects a child’s development and educational outcomes beginning in the earliest years of life,...
Policies to Reduce Undernutrition Include Child Development (with Mauren M. Black, Susan P. Walker, Theodore D. Wachs, Nurper Ulkuer, Julie Meeks Gardner, Sally Grantham-McGregor, and Betsy Lozoff), The Lancet (2008)
Strategies to Avoid the Loss of Developmental Potential in More than 200 Million Children in the Developing World (with Maureen M. Black, Jere R. Behrman, Meena Cabral de Mello, Paul Gertler, Lydia Kapiriri, Reynaldo Martorell, Mary Eming Young, and International Child Development Steering Group), The Lancet (2007)
This paper is the third in the Child Development Series. The first paper showed that...
Infant Feeding Styles: Barriers and Opportunities for Good Nutrition in India, Nutrition Reviews (2002)
India has the lion’s share of malnourished children in the world. Poverty and social exclusion...
Care and Nutrition: Concepts and Measurement (with Purnima Menon), World Development (1999)
Care is the provision in the household and the community of time, attention, and support...
Effects of Discontinuing Coffee Intake on Iron Deficient Guatemalan Toddlers' Cognitive Development and Sleep (with T. VasDias, I. Howard, M.E. Romero-Abal, J. Quan De Serrano, J. Bulux, N. W. Solomons, and K. G. Dewey), Early Human Development (1999)
Coffee is commonly given daily to toddlers in Guatemala. Possible negative effects of coffee ingestion...
Review of A Critical Link: Interventions for Physical Growth and Psychological Development (with Gretel Pelto and Katherine Dickin), Psychology and Child Development (1999)
An extensive scientific review showing that psychological interventions to support psychological development and nutrition interventions...
Maternal Employment, Child Care, and Nutritional Status of 12-18-Month-Old Children in Managua, Nicaragua (with Jessica F. Lamontagne and Marian F. Zeitlin), Social Science and Medicine (1998)
Relationships among women's employment, child care strategies, and nutritional status of children 12–18 months of...
The Role of Men in Families: Achieving gender equity and supporting children, Gender and Development (1997)
Fathers and men in families represent one of the most important resources for children’s well-being....
Child Development: Vulnerability and Resilience (with Sarah Castle and Purnima Menon), Social Science and Medicine (1996)
Many of the challenges facing children now are a function of changing times, including increase...
Early Supplementary Feeding and Cognition: Effects Over Two Decades (with Ernesto Pollitt, Kathleen S. Gorman, Reynaldo Martorell, and Juan Rivera), Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (1993)
The study reported in this Monograph of the effects of early supplementary feeding on cognition...
Maternal Work and Child-Care Strategies in Peri-Urban Guatemala: Nutritional Effects, Child Development (1991)
Associations of 293 mothers' works for earnings and child-care arrangements with the anthropometric status of...
Views of Cesarean Birth Among Primiparous Women of Mexican Origin in Los Angeles (with Laura H. Cummins and Susan C. M. Scrimshaw), Birth (1988)
This study examined data from a larger project on the cultural context of first birth...
The Relationship between Physical Growth and Infant Behavioral Development in Rural Guatemala (with Robert E. Lasky, Robert E. Klein, Charles Yarbrough, Aaron Lechtig, and Reynaldo Martorell), Child Development (1981)
The present study investigated the relationship between a number of anthropometric indices and behavioral development...
Nutrition and Mental Development in Children (with Marc Irwin, Robert E. Klein, Charles Yarbrough, and John W. Townsend), Nutrition: Pre- and Postnatal Development (1979)
The Relationship of Prior Ability and Family Characteristics to School Attendance and School Achievement in Rural Guatemala (with Marc Irwin, Charles Yarbrough, Robert E. Klein, and John Townsend), Child Development (1978)
Data from a longitudinal study in progress were used to investigate the relationships between intellectual...