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Eric Dearing is a researcher affiliated with Boston College in the United States, specializing in the social sciences with a strong focus on education. They have extensively contributed to the subfields of education, statistics and probability, safety research, sociology and political science, and clinical psychology.

Their work centers primarily on early childhood education and development, parental involvement in education, and cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills. Additional focal topics include school choice and performance, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, poverty, education, and child welfare, as well as mathematics education and teaching techniques.

Eric Dearing has published in a range of academic journals. They have multiple publications in the following venues:

  • Child Development
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Educational Researcher
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • AERA Open

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Eric Dearing include:

  • Adult outcomes of sustained high-quality early child care and education: Do they vary by family income? (2021), Child Development
  • Maternal Support of Children's Math Learning in Associations Between Family Income and Math School Readiness (2020), Child Development
  • Facilitating young children's numeracy talk in play: The role of parent prompts (2021), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • The Widening Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor in a Nordic Country (2023), Educational Researcher
  • Socioeconomic Variations in the Frequency of Parent Number Talk: A Meta-Analysis (2022), Education Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Henrik Daae Zachrisson
  • Andres S. Bustamante
  • Sarah H. Eason
  • Ariadne E. Nelson
  • Beth M. Casey

Best Publications

  • Family Involvement in School and Low-Income Children's Literacy: Longitudinal Associations between and within Families.

    Eric Dearing;Holly Kreider;Sandra Simpkins;Heather B. Weiss

  • Teacher-Child Relationship and Behavior Problem Trajectories in Elementary School

    Erin E. O’Connor;Eric Dearing;Brian A. Collins

  • Change in family income-to-needs matters more for children with less.

    Eric Dearing;Kathleen McCartney;Beck A. Taylor

  • Does Higher Quality Early Child Care Promote Low-Income Children’s Math and Reading Achievement in Middle Childhood?

    Eric Dearing;Kathleen McCartney;Beck A. Taylor

  • Quality Child Care Supports the Achievement of Low-Income Children: Direct and Indirect Pathways Through Caregiving and the Home Environment

    Kathleen McCartney;Eric Dearing;Beck A. Taylor;Kristen L. Bub

  • Within-child associations between family income and externalizing and internalizing problems.

    Eric Dearing;Kathleen McCartney;Beck A. Taylor

  • The promotive effects of family educational involvement for low-income children's literacy

    Eric Dearing;Kathleen McCartney;Heather B. Weiss;Holly Kreider

  • V. CONTEMPORARY ADVANCES AND CLASSIC ADVICE FOR ANALYZING MEDIATING AND MODERATING VARIABLES

    Eric Dearing;Lawrence C. Hamilton

  • Making It Work: Low-Income Working Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education:

    Heather B. Weiss;Ellen Mayer;Holly Kreider;Margaret Vaughan

  • Reducing Student Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs

    Carly D. Robinson;Monica G. Lee;Eric Dearing;Todd Rogers

  • Psychological Costs of Growing Up Poor

    Eric Dearing

  • The developmental implications of restrictive and supportive parenting across neighborhoods and ethnicities: Exceptions are the rule

    Eric Dearing

  • Incomes and Outcomes in Early Childhood

    Beck A. Taylor;Eric Dearing;Kathleen McCartney

  • COGNITIVE SELF-REGULATION IN YOUTH WITH AND WITHOUT LEARNING DISABILITIES: ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY, THEORIES OF INTELLIGENCE, LEARNING VS. PERFORMANCE GOAL PREFERENCES, AND EFFORT ATTRIBUTIONS

    Grayson L. Baird;Walter D. Scott;Eric Dearing;Sarah K. Hamill

  • Young girls’ arithmetic and spatial skills: The distal and proximal roles of family socioeconomics and home learning experiences

    Eric Dearing;Beth M. Casey;Colleen M. Ganley;Miriam Tillinger

  • Implications of family income dynamics for women's depressive symptoms during the first 3 years after childbirth.

    Eric Dearing;Beck A. Taylor;Kathleen McCartney

  • Little Evidence That Time in Child Care Causes Externalizing Problems During Early Childhood in Norway

    Henrik Daae Zachrisson;Eric Dearing;Ratib Lekhal;Claudio O. Toppelberg

  • A New Model for Student Support in High-Poverty Urban Elementary Schools Effects on Elementary and Middle School Academic Outcomes

    Mary E. Walsh;George F. Madaus;Anastasia E. Raczek;Eric Dearing

  • Increased Family Involvement in School Predicts Improved Child–Teacher Relationships and Feelings About School for Low-Income Children

    Eric Dearing;Holly Kreider;Heather B. Weiss

  • Demographic Differences in Patterns of Youth Out-of-School Time Activity Participation

    Suzanne M. Bouffard;Christopher Wimer;Pia Caronongan;Priscilla Little

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen McCartney
Kathleen McCartney Harvard University
Sandra D. Simpkins
Sandra D. Simpkins University of California, Irvine
Arnstein Mykletun
Arnstein Mykletun Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Nancy L. Marshall
Nancy L. Marshall Wellesley College
Keith J. Petrie
Keith J. Petrie University of Auckland
Børge Sivertsen
Børge Sivertsen Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Mari Hysing
Mari Hysing University of Bergen
Michael W. Ross
Michael W. Ross University of Minnesota
Susan C. Levine
Susan C. Levine University of Chicago
Rebekah Levine Coley
Rebekah Levine Coley Boston College

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