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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
31
Citations
11249
World Ranking
7407
National Ranking
3605

Best Publications

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

    Douglas B. Downey

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

    James W. Ainsworth-Darnell;Douglas B. Downey

  • 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

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

    Douglas B. Downey;Shana Pribesh

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

    Douglas B. Downey

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

    Shana Pribesh;Douglas B. Downey

  • 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

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

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

    Douglas B. Downey;Dennis J. Condron

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

    Douglas B. Downey

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

    Douglas B. Downey;Dennis J. Condron

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

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

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

    Douglas B. Downey;Anastasia S. Vogt Yuan

  • The Search for Oppositional Culture among Black Students

    Douglas B. Downey;James W. Ainsworth-Darnell

  • 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

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

    Douglas B. Downey

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

    Douglas B. Downey;Brian Powell

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

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

  • Rethinking the Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks

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

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

    Brian Powell;Douglas B. Downey

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