How are children developing around the world? How does adversity affect young children's development? What protective factors may promote resilience in early childhood? Using rigorous quantitative methods and interdisciplinary theory, we explore these questions in order to better understand how to support children's development worldwide.
Recent Pulications
McCoy, D. C. (2022). Building a model of cultural universality with specificity for global early childhood development. Child Development Perspectives, 16(1), 27-33.
McCoy, D. C., Cuartas, J., Behrman, J., Cappa, C., Heymann, J., López Bóo, F., ... & Fink, G. (2021). Global estimates of the implications of COVID‐19‐related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing. Child Development.
Cuartas, J., McCoy, D. C., Grogan-Taylor, A., & Gershoff, E. (2020). Physical punishment as a predictor of early cognitive development: Evidence from econometric approaches. Developmental Psychology, 56(11), 2013–2026.
Hanno, E., Lebowitz, R., Gonzalez, K., McCoy, D. C., Fort, C., & Lizárraga, C. (2020). Structural and process quality features in Peruvian early childhood education settings. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 67, 101-105
McCoy, D. C., Cuartas, J., Waldman, M. & Fink, G. (2019). Contextual variation in young children’s acquisition of social-emotional skills. PLoS ONE, 14(11), e0223056.
Cuartas, J., McCoy, D. C., Rey-Guerra, C., Britto, P., Beatriz, E., Salhi, C. (2019). Early childhood exposure to non-violent discipline and physical and psychological aggression in low- and middle-income countries: National, regional, and global prevalence estimates. Child Abuse & Neglect, 92, 93-105.
Wolf, S. & McCoy, D. C. (2019). Household socioeconomic status and parental investments: Direct and indirect relationships with school readiness in Ghana. Child Development, 90(1), 260-278.
McCoy, D. C., & Wolf, S. (2018). Changes in classroom quality predict Ghanaian preschoolers’ gains in academic and social-emotional skills. Developmental Psychology, 54(8), 1582-1599.
Cuartas, J., McCoy, D. C., & Molano, A. (2018). The acute effect of community violent crime on maternal engagement in cognitive and socioemotional stimulation. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45, 143-154.
McCoy, D. C., Salhi, C., Yoshikawa, H., Britto, P., Black, M., & Fink, G. (2018). Opportunities for learning in low- and middle-income countries: A landscape analysis. Children and Youth Services Review, 88, 44-56.
McCoy, D. C., Zuilkowski, S. S., Yoshikawa, H., & Fink, G. (2017). Early childhood care and education and school readiness in Zambia. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 10(3), 482-506.
McCoy, D. C., Peet, E., Ezzati, M., Danaei, G., Black, M., Sudfeld, C., Fawzi, W., & Fink, G. (2016). Early childhood developmental status in low- and middle-income countries: National, regional and global estimates. PLOS Medicine, 13(6), e1002034.
McCoy, D. C., Connors, M. C., Morris, P. A., Yoshikawa, H., & Friedman-Krauss, A. H. (2015). Neighborhood economic disadvantage and children’s academic and social-emotional development: Exploring Head Start classroom quality as a mediating mechanism. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 32, 150-159.