Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Columbia University
671 Papers
8.1K Citations
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child development & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 664 publications. Previous affiliations of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn include Washington University in St. Louis & Johns Hopkins University.
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Transitions on and off AFDC: implications for parenting and children's cognitive development.
TL;DR: Strong negative associations were found between receiving welfare and parenting behavior and child outcomes at age 3 years and the parenting behavior of mothers who had left welfare by their child's third birthday was more likely to be authoritarian if she had left public assistance without also leaving poverty.
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Head Start and Urban Children's School Readiness: A Birth Cohort Study in 18 Cities.
TL;DR: Investigating the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social competence and reduced attention problems but not reduced internalizing or externalizing behavior problems.
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Are Approaches to Learning in Kindergarten Associated with Academic and Social Competence Similarly
TL;DR: Associations between children’s ATL at age 5 and academic achievement and social competence at age 9 within an at-risk sample support the importance of early ATL for both academic and social success and support it as a critical intervention target.
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What Happens During the School Day?:Time Diaries from a National Sample of Elementary School Teachers
TL;DR: This article examined students' total time in school and their activities while there and found wide variation in the length of the school day based on the student and classroom characteristics, and found variations in how students spent their time based on student, family, and classroom characteristic.
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Research and programs for adolescent mothers: missing links and future promises.
TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested that interventions to prevent second children emphasize the interaction between the ecological context and individual qualities by tailoring programs to the characteristics of different subgroups and to decision-making processes and risk-taking behavior.
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