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Jeffrey Roth
Researcher at University of Florida
Publications - 78
Citations - 3549
Jeffrey Roth is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Low birth weight & Birth weight. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 77 publications receiving 3056 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey Roth include University of Alabama at Birmingham & American University.
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Early School-Age Outcomes of Late Preterm Infants
TL;DR: It is suggested that healthy late preterm infants compared with healthy term infants face a greater risk for developmental delay and school-related problems up through the first 5 years of life.
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The Effects of Poor Neonatal Health on Children's Cognitive Development
TL;DR: It is found that the effects of early health on cognitive development are essentially constant through the school career; that these effects are similar across a wide range of family backgrounds; and that they are invariant to measures of school quality.
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Risk Factors for Infant Maltreatment: A Population-Based Study.
Samuel S. Wu,Chang-Xing Ma,Randy L. Carter,Mario Ariet,Edward A. Feaver,Michael B. Resnick,Jeffrey Roth +6 more
TL;DR: Data on nearly all risk factors found to be significantly associated with infant maltreatment are available on the birth certificate and can be incorporated into a population-based risk-assessment tool that could identify subpopulations at highest risk for infant malt treatment.
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An Empirical Comparison of Statistical Models for Value-Added Assessment of School Performance
Carmen D. Tekwe,Randy L. Carter,Chang-Xing Ma,James Algina,Maurice E. Lucas,Jeffrey Roth,Mario Ariet,Thomas Fisher,Michael B. Resnick +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of Simple Fixed Effects Models (SFEM) and Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) for value-added analysis, adjusting for important student and school-level covariates such as socioeconomic status.
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Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
TL;DR: The authors found that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families, and evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment.