Thomas S. Weisner, Ph. D.

Weisner, T. S. (2008). Parenthood.  In R.A. Shweder, T.R. Bidell, A.C. Dailey, S.D. Dixon, P.J. Miller & J. Modell, eds. The Child: An encylopedic companion.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press. Pp 706-709.

Weisner, T.S.  (2008)  African Childhood.  In R.A. Shweder, T.R. Bidell, A.C. Dailey, S.D. Dixon, P.J. Miller & J. Modell.  The Child: An encylopedic companion.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press. Pp 43-46.

Weisner, T.S. (2008)  Well being, chaos, and culture:  Sustaining a meaningful daily routine.  In G.W. Evans & T.D. Wachs, eds. Chaos and children's development: Levels of analysis and mechanisms.  Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Pp 211-224.

Hay, M. Cameron, Thomas S. Weisner, Saskia Subramanian, Naihua Duan, Edmund J. Niedzinski , & Richard Kravitz. (2008)   Harnessing experience: exploring the gap between evidence based medicine and clinical practice. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 14:707-714.

Weisner, T. S. (2008) Understanding New Hope.  A Successful Antipoverty Program for Working Poor Adults and Their Children.  Anthropology Newsletter, April.

Yoshikawa, H., Weisner, T.S., Kalil, A., Way, N. (2008)  Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Developmental Science: Uses and Methodological Choices.  Developmental Psychology 44(2): 344-354.

Skinner, Debra, & Thomas S. Weisner.  (2007)  Sociocultural Studies of Families of Children with Intellectual Disabilities.  Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 13: 302 - 312.

Weisner, T.S. (2007)  Forward to Vigil, James Diego. The Projects.Gangs and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles.  Austin:  University of Texas Press. Pp ix-xii.

Matheson, C., Olson, R., & Weisner, T.S.  (2007)  A good friend is hard to find:  Friendship among adolescents with disabilities.  American Journal of Mental Retardation 112: 319–329.

Bernheimer, Lucinda B., and Thomas S. Weisner. (2007)  “Let me just tell you what I do all day…”:  The family story at the center of intervention research and practice.  Infants & Young Children 20(3): 192 - 201.

Duncan, Greg, Aletha Huston, & Thomas S. Weisner. (2007) Higher Ground: New Hope for the working poor and their children. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Click here to order book.

Yoshikawa, H., Weisner, T. S. & Lowe, E., eds. (2006) Making it work: Low-wage employment, family life and child development. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Click here to order book.

Weisner, T.S. (2006) "I want what everybody wants": Goals, values, and work in the lives of New Hope families.  In H. Yoshikawa, T.S. Weisner & E. Lowe, eds.  Makign it work: Low-wage employment, family life and child development. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp 147-172.

East, P.L., Weisner, T.S. & Reyes, B. (2006). Youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children. Its costs and benefits for youths development. Applied Developmental Science, 10(2): 86-95.

Huston, A.C.,  Duncan, G.J., McLoyd, V.C., Crosby, D.A., Ripke, M.N., Weisner, T.S. & Eldred, C.A. (2005)  Impacts on Children of a Policy to Promote Employment and Reduce Poverty: New Hope after Five Years. Developmental Psychology, 41: 902-918.

Weisner, T.S. (2005)  Commentary:  Attachment as a cultural and ecological problem with pluralistic cultural and ecological solutions. Human Development 48:89-94.

Lowe, E. Weisner, T., Geis, S. & Huston, A. (2005)  Child Care Instability and the Effort to Sustain a Working Daily Routine: Evidence from the New Hope Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Families.  In C. Cooper, C. Garcia-Coll, T. Bartko, H. Davis & C. Chatman, eds. Developmental pathways through middle childhood : Rethinking contexts and diversity as resources. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 121-144.

Weisner, T.S., Matheson, C., Coots, J., & Bernheimer, L.  (2005)  Sustainability of daily routines as a family outcome. In A. Maynard & M. Martini, eds. The Psychology of Learning in Cultural Context.  New York:  Kluwer/Plenum.  Pp. 41 – 73.

Weisner, T.S., ed.  (2005)  Discovering successful pathways in children's development: New  methods in the study of childhood and family life.  Chicago: University of Chicago  Press.  Click here to order book.

Weisner, T.S. & Lowe, E. (2005)  Globalization and the Psychological Anthropology of Childhood and Adolescence. In C. Casey & R. Edgerton, eds. A companion to psychological anthropology: modernity and psychocultural change. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Pp. 315 - 336.

Lowe, E., & Weisner, T.S. (2004) "You have to push it -- who's gonna raise your kids?": Situating child care in the daily routines of low-income families. Children and Youth Services Review 25 (3):  225 – 261.

Weisner, T.S. (2003)  Forward: The Most Important Influences in Human Development.  In R.A. LeVine. Childhood Socialization: Comparative studies of parenting, learning, and educational change. CERC Studies in Comparative Education 12. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press.  Pp. xi-xvi.

Bernheimer, L., Weisner, T. S., & Lowe, T.  (2003) Impacts of Children with Troubles on Working Poor Families: mixed-methods and experimental evidence. Mental Retardation 41(6): 403-419.

Daley, T., & Weisner, T.S. (2003) "I Speak a Different Dialect": Teen explanatory models of difference and disability. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17(1): 519-521.

Huston, A., Miller, C., Richburg-Hayes, L., Duncan, G., Eldred, C., Weisner, T., et al. (2003)  New Hope for Families and Children:  Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare.  New York: MDRC.

Lieber, E., Weisner, T.S., & Presley, M.  (2003)  EthnoNotes: An Internet-Based Field Note Management Tool. Field Methods, 15(4): 405-425.

Axia, V. & Weisner, T.S. (2002) Infant stress reactivity and home cultural ecology. Infant Behavior and Development 140:1-14.

Gennetian, L. A., Huston, A. C., Crosby, D. A., Chang, Y. E., Lowe, E. D., & Weisner, T. S.  (2002) Making child care choices. How welfare and work policies influence parents' decisions. New York: MDRC Policy Brief.

Gibson, C., & Weisner, T.S. (2002) "Rational" and ecocultural circumstances of program take-up among low-income working parents. Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology 61(2): 154-166.

Okami, P., Weisner, T., & R. Olmstead. (2002) Outcome correlates of parent-child bedsharing: An eighteen-year longitudinal study. Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 23(4): 244-253.

Weisner, T.S. (2002) Ecocultural understanding of children's developmental pathways. Human Development 45(4): 275-281. [Reprinted/translated in  La “Ecocultural Family Interview” e la comprensione dei percorsi di sviluppo infantile.  Nuove trendenze della psicologia I (1) (April 2003): 67-76.]

Weisner, T. S.  (2002)  Ecocultural pathways, family values, and parenting. Parenting:  Science & Practice 2(3): 325-334.

Weisner, T.S. (2002) Making a good thing better: Ways to strengthen sociocultural research in human development. Human Development 45(5): 372-380.

Weisner, T. S., Gibson, C., Lowe, E.D., & Romich, J. (2002) Understanding Working Poor families in the New Hope Program. Poverty Research Newsletter 6(4): 3-5.

Weisner, T.S.  (2001). Childhood: Anthropological aspects. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vol 3. Oxford: Pergamon.  Pp. 1697-1701.

Weisner, T.S. (2001). The American dependency conflict: Continuities and discontinuities in behavior and values of countercultural parents and their children. Ethos 29(3): 271-295.

Weisner, T. S. (2001). Children investing in their families: The importance of child obligation in successful development. In A. Fuligni, ed. Family obligation and assistance during adolescence. Contextual variations and developmental implications. New Directions in Child Development. 94(Winter 2001): 77-83.

Weisner, T. S., & C. P. Edwards. (2001). Introduction to the special issue of Ethos in honor of Beatrice Whiting. Ethos. 29(3): 239-246.

Weisner, T.S. (2000). Culture,childhood, and progress in Sub-Saharan Africa. In LE. Harrison & S. P. Huntington, eds. Culture matters. How values shape human progress. New York: Basic Books. Pp. 141-157.

Romich, J.L., & Weisner, T.S. (2000). How Families View and Use the EITC: Advance payment versus lump sum delivery. National Tax Journal LIII (4), part 2, pp. 1245-1265.

Axia, G., & Weisner, T.S. (2000) La valutazione dell'ecocultura famigliare (The assessment of family ecoculture). In G. Axia & S. Bonichin, eds. La valutazione del bambino (Child assessment). Roma: Carocci. Pp. 256-282.

Hauser-Cram, P., Warfield, M.E., Upshur, C.C., & Weisner, T.S. (2000) An expanded view of program evaluation in early childhood intervention.. In S.J. Meisels & J.P. Shonkoff, eds. Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention, 2nd Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 487-509.

Weisner, T. S., Bernheimer, L. P., Lieber, E., Gibson, C., Howard, E., Magnuson, K., Romich, J., Syam, D., Espinosa, V., & Chmielewski, E.  (2000).  Understanding better the lives of poor families: Ethnographic and survey studies of the New Hope experiment.  Poverty Research News 4(1), 10-12.

Weisner, T.S. (2000). Review of The After-School Lives of Children: Alone and with Others while Parents Work. By Deborah Bele.  Anthropology and Education Quarterly 31(2).