Douglas B. Downey

Best Publications

• WHEN BIGGER IS NOT BETTER: FAMILY SIZE, PARENTAL RESOURCES, AND CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE*

  Douglas B. Downey

  1418
  Citations

• ASSESSING THE OPPOSITIONAL CULTURE EXPLANATION FOR RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN SCHOOL PERFORMANCE*

  James W. Ainsworth-Darnell;Douglas B. Downey

  1365
  Citations

• Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality during the Summer Months and the School Year:

  Douglas B. Downey;Paul T. von Hippel;Beckett A. Broh

  1319
  Citations

• When Race Matters: Teachers' Evaluations of Students' Classroom Behavior:

  Douglas B. Downey;Shana Pribesh

  891
  Citations

• Number of siblings and intellectual development: The resource dilution explanation.

  Douglas B. Downey

  705
  Citations

• Why are residential and school moves associated with poor school performance

  Shana Pribesh;Douglas B. Downey

  600
  Citations

• The effect of school on overweight in childhood: gain in body mass index during the school year and during summer vacation.

  Paul T. von Hippel;Brian Powell;Douglas B. Downey;Nicholas J. Rowland

  415
  Citations

• Number of siblings and intellectual development: The resource dilution explanation.

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  393
  Citations

• Playing Well with Others in Kindergarten: The Benefit of Siblings at Home

  Douglas B. Downey;Dennis J. Condron

  381
  Citations

• The School Performance of Children From Single-Mother and Single-Father Families: Economic or Interpersonal Deprivation?

  Douglas B. Downey

  377
  Citations

• Fifty Years since the Coleman Report: Rethinking the Relationship between Schools and Inequality

  Douglas B. Downey;Dennis J. Condron

  368
  Citations

• Are “Failing” Schools Really Failing? Using Seasonal Comparison to Evaluate School Effectiveness

  Douglas B. Downey;Paul T. von Hippel;Melanie Hughes

  288
  Citations

• SEX DIFFERENCES IN SCHOOL PERFORMANCE DURING HIGH SCHOOL: Puzzling Patterns and Possible Explanations

  Douglas B. Downey;Anastasia S. Vogt Yuan

  272
  Citations

• The Search for Oppositional Culture among Black Students

  Douglas B. Downey;James W. Ainsworth-Darnell

  245
  Citations

• Inequality in Reading and Math Skills Forms Mainly before Kindergarten: A Replication, and Partial Correction, of "Are Schools the Great Equalizer?".

  Paul T. von Hippel;Joseph Workman;Douglas B. Downey

  243
  Citations

• Black/White Differences in School Performance: The Oppositional Culture Explanation

  Douglas B. Downey

  223
  Citations

• Do Children in Single-Parent Households Fare Better Living with Same-Sex Parents?.

  Douglas B. Downey;Brian Powell

  212
  Citations

• Sex of Parent and Children's Well-Being in Single-Parent Households.

  Douglas B. Downey;James W. Ainsworth-Darnell;Mikaela J. Dufur

  174
  Citations

• Rethinking the Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks

  Douglas B. Downey;James W. Ainsworth;Zhenchao Qian

  168
  Citations

• Living in single-parent households : An investigation of the same-sex hypothesis

  Brian Powell;Douglas B. Downey

  137
  Citations