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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He & she : how children develop their sex-role identity
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Wendy S. Matthews +1 more
- 01 Jan 1979
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The great recession and behavior problems in 9-year old children.
TL;DR: Links between the CSI and boys' behavior problems were concentrated in single-parent families and were partially explained by parenting behaviors, suggesting that in the Great Recession, what was most meaningful for child behavior problems was the uncertainty about the national economy, rather than local labor markets.
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Changing neighborhoods and child well-being: Understanding how children may be affected in the coming century
TL;DR: In this article, a developmental framework for the coming century is proposed, which considers the processes through which neighborhood effects might operate on child well-being, as well as neighborhood contexts per se as dynamic rather than static.
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Health status and behaviors of unwed fathers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the well-being and capacities of 1759 new fathers in seven cities using data from the Fragile Families Study and found that married fathers are more advantaged than unmarried fathers vis-a-vis education, income and age; they also are in better physical and mental health.
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Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low-Income Families. Volume I: Technical Report.
John M. Love,Ellen Eliason Kisker,Christine Ross,Peter Z. Schochet,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Kimberly Boller,Diane Paulsell,Allison Sidle Fuligni,Lisa J. Berlin +8 more
TL;DR: This article found that 2-year-olds perform significantly better on a range of measures of cognitive, language, and social-emotional development, when compared with a randomly assigned control group.