A recent study authored by SEED lab member Katie Gonzalez in Economics of Education Review shows that parents compensate for differences in their children's access to Head Start. Using longitudinal data on families where some, but not all, siblings participated in Head Start, the study finds that parents provided more emotional support and cognitive stimulation to children who did not attend preschool relative to their siblings who attended Head Start. Read the full study ... Read more about Recent article in EER shows that parents respond to within-family differences in Head Start participation
A new study published in PLOS ONE and written by SEED Lab members Dana McCoy, Marcus Waldman, and Jorge Cuartas highlights similarities and differences in how children across 10 global sites develop social-emotional skills like sympathy, creativity, attention, and curiosity. Read the full study here! Read more about New research in PLOS ONE shows global variation in social-emotional skills
HGSE doctoral student Jorge Cuartas recently addressed the House of Representatives in Colombia as they consider a federal ban on corporal punishment. Jorge highlighted his own research showing the negative impacts of violence -- including harsh discipline -- on children's brain, cognitive, and social-emotional development. Click here to watch Jorge's presentation and... Read more about Doctoral student Jorge Cuartas presents his research before the Colombian House of Representatives
HGSE doctoral student and SEED lab member Marta Dormal received one of the 10 fellowships awarded to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars conducting research on inequality across disciplines at Harvard for the academic year 2022-2023.
The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy awards fellowships to current Harvard PhD students in the social sciences who will advance a...
Doctoral candidate Jorge Cuartas recently received the Early Career Outstanding Paper Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) for his research paper "Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children" published in Child Development. The Early Carer Outstanding Paper Award recognizes a graduate student or early career scientist, within seven years of Ph.D., who has published (or has...
A new paper published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health by SEED Lab members Dana McCoy, Jonathan Seiden, Jorge Cuartas, and Marcus Waldman shows that just one in four young children living in low- and middle-income countries were receiving minimally adequate nurturing care prior to the COVID pandemic. The study, which uses data from more than 400,000 children, suggests that children are particularly in need of services that support their early learning and responsive caregiving. Read the full study... Read more about New research highlights children's care needs globally
Dr. McCoy and other members of the SEED Lab have recently published two articles in the journal Child Development related to children's wellbeing in global contexts. The first was co-authored with former doctoral student Emily Hanno and colleagues from FGV in Brazil. It presents the first-year effects of a social-emotional learning intervention, Programa Compasso, as implemented in primary schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although no...
SEED Lab and CREDI team members Dana McCoy, Jonathan Seiden, and Marcus Waldman -- alongside collaborator Günther Fink -- recently published a commentary in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The commentary reviews the state of the evidence on the CREDI, a set of measures for capturing early childhood development in diverse global settings. Click... Read more about CREDI team publishes commentary in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
