Research Highlights

001Combating Obesity in Head Start: Outdoor Play and Change in Children’s Body Mass Index
Arya Ansari, Kierra Pettit, and Elizabeth Gershoff
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 36(8):605-612, 2015

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002Adolescent Substance Use: The Role of Demographic Marginalization and Socioemotional Distress
Aprile D. Benner and Yijie Wang
Developmental Psychology 51(8):1086-1097, 2015

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003Intergenerational Support in Daily Context
Karen L. Fingerman, Kyungmin Kim, Patrick S. Tennant, Kira S. Birditt, and Steven H. Zarit
The Gerontologist doi:10.1093/geront/gnv035, 2015

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004Sexual (Minority) Trajectories, Mental Health, and Alcohol Use: A Longitudinal Study of Youth as They Transition to Adulthood
Jessica N. Fish and Kay Pasley
Journal of Youth and Adolescence 44(8):1508-1527, 2015

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005Does Fertility-Specific Distress Vary by Race? Findings from a National Probability Sample

Arthur L Greil, Julia McQuillan, and Delida Sanchez
Journal of Health Psychology doi: 10.1177/1359105314524970, 2014

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006Time Spent in Child Care: How and Why Does it Affect Social Development?
Aletha C. Huston, Kaeley C. Bobbitt and Alison Bentley
Developmental Psychology 51(5): 621-634, 2015

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007Bridging the Gap Between Common Mental Disorders and Service Use: The Role of Self-Rated Mental Health Among African Americans
Yuri Jang, Hyunwoo Yoon, David A. Chiriboga, Victor Molinari and Daniel A. Powers
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 23: 658-665, 2015

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008Parent–Child Acculturation Profiles as Predictors of Chinese American Adolescents’ Academic Trajectories
Su Yeong Kim, Yijie Want, Qi Chen, Yishan Shen and Yang Hou
Journal of Youth and Adolescence 44:1263-1274, 2015

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009The Increasing Effectiveness of National Gender Quotas, 1990–2010
Pamela Paxton and Melanie Hughes
Legislative Studies Quarterly 40(3):331-362, 2015

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010A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families
Kate C. Prickett, Alexa Martin-Storey and Robert Crosnoe
Demography 52(3):905-918, 2015

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011Abortion Access and State Variation in Unintended Pregnancy
Amanda Jean Stevenson and Joseph E. Potter
Contraception 92(3):227-33, 2015

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012The Effects of School Physical Education Grants on Obesity, Fitness, and Achievement
Paul T. von Hippel and W. Kyle Bradbury
Preventive Medicine 78:45-51, 2015

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013The impact of reproductive health legislation on family planning clinic services in Texas
Kari White, Joseph E. Potter, Kristine Hopkins, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Celia Hubert, Abigail R. A. Aiken, and Daniel Grossman
American Journal of Public Health 105(5):851-858, 2015

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