Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used 15 years of panel data on a diverse sample of urban families from all regions of the U.S. to compare the likelihood of eviction between low-income mothers who reside in public housing, private housing subsidized through a voucher program, and non-subsidized private housing.

TL;DR: It is concluded that a substantial proportion of low-income women continue to experience poor health in the year after delivery, and that this may impair their ability to dealt with the disproportionately higher health needs of their infants.

TL;DR: Results suggest that the degree of household order is significantly and positively associated with the expressive vocabulary, Woodcock Reading Mastery, and phonological awareness skills of children whose mothers are above-average readers, and for new approaches to encouraging literacy development in the home beyond those that depend solely on parental literacy.

TL;DR: Brooks-Gunn et al. as discussed by the authors found that children who had attended preschool had higher earnings in their jobs, were more likely to hold a job, committed fewer crimes, and were higher likely to graduate from high school.

TL;DR: The authors found that infants respond quite differently to adults and children in live approach sequences (Brooks & Lewis, 1976; Greenberg, Hillman, & Grice, 1973; Lewis & Brooks, 1974) so that differential responses to pictures of self and adults or even to self and older children may not be indicative of self recognition but instead may indicate age differentiation.