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Move over worksheets! Parents want preschool math to be fun and engaging
(Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2019-06)Our study examined preschool parents’ beliefs about supporting their children’s math skills at home and the types of support they would like to receive from teachers. -
School Readiness Beliefs and Practices of Immigrant Parents
(Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2020)Parental beliefs about school readiness are associated with children’s achievement. Few studies addressing cultural variation in parents’ school readiness beliefs have included immigrant groups or compared and contrasted ... -
Parents’ Confidence for Fostering Their Preschool Children’s Math Development
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Parents as Teachers During COVID-19
(Sonnenschein Lab UMBC, 2021)Following U.S. school closures in March 2020 due to the Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic, parents have had to play substantially larger roles in their children’s education than previously. Little is known about the ... -
Getting Preschoolers Ready for School: Parents' Perceptions of the Home Learning Environment
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School Readiness Beliefs of Dominican and Salvadoran Immigrant Parents
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2021-05-31)Parents are children’s first teachers, and it is critical that they understand what children need to be successful in school. This study examined the school readiness beliefs of 43 Latinx immigrant parents from the Dominican ... -
Subjective cognitive decline and objective cognition among diverse U.S. Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA)
(Wiley Online Library, 2021-05-31)Introduction Despite increased risk of cognitive decline in Hispanics/Latinos, research on early risk markers of Alzheimer's disease in this group is lacking. Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may be an early risk marker ... -
Impact on Student Learning: The Contribution of a Professional Development Collaboration
(BCES Conference, 2021)Schools of education are often criticized for not effectively preparing teacher candidates and teacher education research has been criticized for lack of rigor in examining the impact on student learning. Teacher preparation ... -
Development of the START Program for Academic Readiness and Its Impact on Behavioral Self-regulation in Japanese Kindergarteners
(Springer Nature, 2021-05-25)The “first-grade problem” of the lack of concentration, listening, and following of instruction has been widely identified among Japanese kindergarten students. To promote their executive functioning and self-regulation ... -
Parents with children forced to do school at home are drinking more
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It’s not just ABCs – preschool parents worry their kids are missing out on critical social skills during the pandemic
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Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey of US Adults
(MDPI, 2020-12-09)Emerging but limited evidence suggests that alcohol consumption has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study assessed: (1) whether drinking behaviors changed during the pandemic; and, (2) how those changes were ... -
The Location of Agricultural Research and the Direction of Agricultural Innovation
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019-05-13)I analyze the importance of the local environment on the direction and subsequent diffusion of agricultural innovations. By comparing counties that are near and far from land grant colleges using a variety of distance ... -
How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges
(2020-03-28)I use data on site selection decisions for a subset of U.S. colleges to identify "runner-up" locations that were strongly considered to become the sites of new colleges but were ultimately not chosen for as-good-as-random ... -
Dissertation Executive Summary: Fuel of Interest and Fire of Genius: Essays on the Economic History of Innovation
(2017-12-05)In this dissertation, I use historical patent data and natural experiments to show how policies and institutions affect invention. Chapter 1 shows that establishing new colleges causes 33% more patents per year in places ... -
American Inventors, 1870-1940
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Local Effects of Land Grant Colleges on Agricultural Innovation and Output
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019-09)To estimate the local effect of establishing land grant colleges, I compare locations that receive a land grant college to “runner-up” counties that were in contention to receive the land grant but did not for as-good-as-random ... -
Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention
(Yale University, 2019-10-28)To understand the importance of informal social networks for invention, I examine one of the largest involuntary disruptions of social networks in U.S. history: alcohol prohibition. The enactment of state-level prohibition ...
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