Kathleen McCartney

Research.com Recognitions

• 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Best Publications

• How people make their own environments: a theory of genotype greater than environment effects.

  Sandra Scarr;Kathleen McCartney

  4030
  Citations

• Are There Long‐Term Effects of Early Child Care?

  Jay Belsky;Deborah Lowe Vandell;Margaret Burchinal;K. Alison Clarke-Stewart

  1398
  Citations

• Examining Teacher–Child Relationships and Achievement as Part of an Ecological Model of Development

  Erin O’Connor;Kathleen McCartney

  821
  Citations

• Effect Size, Practical Importance, and Social Policy for Children

  Kathleen McCartney;Robert Rosenthal

  603
  Citations

• Within and Beyond the Classroom Door: Assessing Quality in Child Care Centers.

  Deborah Phillips;Debra Mekos;Sandra Scarr;Kathleen McCartney

  563
  Citations

• Effect of quality of day care environment on children's language development.

  Kathleen McCartney

  550
  Citations

• Child-care quality and children's social development.

  Deborah Phillips;Kathleen McCartney;Sandra Scarr

  531
  Citations

• Nonmaternal Care and Family Factors in Early Development: An Overview of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care

  Virginia Allhusen;Mark Appelbaum;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth

  509
  Citations

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

  Eric Dearing;Kathleen McCartney;Beck A. Taylor

  509
  Citations

• 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

  500
  Citations

• Growing up and growing apart: a developmental meta-analysis of twin studies.

  Kathleen McCartney;Monica J. Harris;Frank Bernieri

  484
  Citations

• Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development from Birth Through Third Grade.

  Virginia Allhusen;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley

  460
  Citations

• Examining the Black–White Achievement Gap Among Low-Income Children Using the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development

  Margaret Burchinal;Kathleen McCartney;Laurence Steinberg;Robert Crosnoe

  445
  Citations

• Do regulable features of child-care homes affect children's development?

  K.Alison Clarke-Stewart;Deborah Lowe Vandell;Margaret Burchinal;Marion O’Brien

  442
  Citations

• Effects of parental separation and divorce on very young children.

  K. Alison Clarke-Stewart;Deborah L. Vandell;Kathleen McCartney;Margaret T. Owen

  368
  Citations

• 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

  351
  Citations

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

  Eric Dearing;Kathleen McCartney;Beck A. Taylor

  334
  Citations

• Familial factors associated with the characteristics of nonmaternal care for infants

  Mark Appelbaum;Dee Ann Batten;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth

  331
  Citations

• Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development

  Kathleen McCartney;Deborah Phillips

  317
  Citations

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

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

  300
  Citations