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Dana Charles McCoy

Dana Charles McCoy

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
47
Citations
11027
World Ranking
3350
National Ranking
1616

Overview

Dana Charles McCoy is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a substantial focus on Education and Clinical Psychology as main subfields. Their work also touches on Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Safety Research.

The scientist's research topics predominantly include Early Childhood Education and Development, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Parental Involvement in Education, and Child Abuse and Trauma.

Dana Charles McCoy has authored several recent papers, including:

  • "Inequalities in early childhood care and development in low/middle-income countries: 2010-2018," 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • "Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under-represented in research," 2022, Infant and Child Development
  • "Global estimates of the implications of COVID-19-related preprimary school closures for children's instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing," 2021, Child Development
  • "Maternal, paternal, and other caregivers' stimulation in low- and- middle-income countries," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Estimates of a multidimensional index of nurturing care in the next 1000 days of life for children in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study," 2022, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Among their frequent co-authors are Jorge Cuartas, Günther Fink, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Abbie Raikes, and Emily C. Hanno.

Regular publication venues for Dana Charles McCoy's research include the International Journal of Behavioral Development, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and The Lancet.

Best Publications

  • Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

    Maureen M Black;Maureen M Black;Susan P Walker;Lia C H Fernald;Christopher T Andersen

  • Risk Factors for Childhood Stunting in 137 Developing Countries: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis at Global, Regional, and Country Levels.

    Goodarz Danaei;Kathryn G. Andrews;Christopher R. Sudfeld;Günther Fink

  • Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modeling.

    Dana Charles McCoy;Evan D. Peet;Majid Ezzati;Goodarz Danaei

  • Linear Growth and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis

    Christopher R. Sudfeld;Dana Charles McCoy;Goodarz Danaei;Günther Fink

  • Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes.

    Dana Charles McCoy;Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest;Greg J. Duncan

  • Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood cognitive development: a meta-analysis.

    Y Liu;S Kaaya;J Chai;Dana C McCoy

  • Malnutrition and Its Determinants Are Associated with Suboptimal Cognitive, Communication, and Motor Development in Tanzanian Children

    Christopher R Sudfeld;Dana Charles McCoy;Günther Fink;Alfa Muhihi

  • Paternal Stimulation and Early Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

    Joshua Jeong;Dana Charles McCoy;Aisha K Yousafzai;Carmel Salhi

  • Instability versus quality: residential mobility, neighborhood poverty, and children's self-regulation.

    Amanda L. Roy;Dana Charles McCoy;C. Cybele Raver

  • Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under‐represented in research

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  • Inequalities in early childhood care and development in low/middle-income countries: 2010–2018

    Chunling Lu;Jorge Cuartas;Günther Fink;Dana McCoy

  • Household Socioeconomic Status and Parental Investments: Direct and Indirect Relations With School Readiness in Ghana.

    Sharon Wolf;Dana Charles McCoy

  • Neighborhood Crime and School Climate as Predictors of Elementary School Academic Quality: A Cross‐Lagged Panel Analysis

    Dana Charles McCoy;Dana Charles McCoy;Amanda L. Roy;Gabriel M. Sirkman

  • Schooling and wage income losses due to early-childhood growth faltering in developing countries: national, regional, and global estimates

    Günther Fink;Evan Peet;Goodarz Danaei;Kathryn Andrews

  • Pathways between paternal and maternal education, caregivers’ support for learning, and early child development in 44 low- and middle-income countries

    Joshua Jeong;Dana Charles McCoy;Günther Fink

  • Children's Cognitive Performance and Selective Attention Following Recent Community Violence

    Dana Charles McCoy;C. Cybele Raver;Patrick Sharkey

  • Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries

    Ayesha Sania;Christopher R. Sudfeld;Goodarz Danaei;Günther Fink

  • Early childhood exposure to non-violent discipline and physical and psychological aggression in low- and middle-income countries: National, regional, and global prevalence estimates.

    Jorge Cuartas;Jorge Cuartas;Dana Charles McCoy;Catalina Rey-Guerra;Pia Rebello Britto

  • Caregiver Emotional Expressiveness, Child Emotion Regulation, and Child Behavior Problems among Head Start Families

    Dana Charles McCoy;C. Cybele Raver

  • Neighborhood Economic Disadvantage and Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Development: Exploring Head Start Classroom Quality as a Mediating Mechanism.

    Dana Charles McCoy;Maia C. Connors;Pamela A. Morris;Hirokazu Yoshikawa

  • Early Violence Exposure and Self-Regulatory Development: A Bioecological Systems Perspective

    Dana Charles McCoy

Frequent Co-Authors

Günther Fink
Günther Fink Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
C. Cybele Raver
C. Cybele Raver New York University
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Stephanie M. Jones
Stephanie M. Jones Harvard University
Pamela Morris
Pamela Morris New York University
Jack P. Shonkoff
Jack P. Shonkoff Harvard University
Sylvia Kaaya
Sylvia Kaaya Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand

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