Thomas S. Weisner, Ph. D.

Weisner, T.S.  2008.  Parenting.  In Chicago Companion to the Child.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Weisner, T.S.  2008.  African Childhood.  In Chicago Companion to the Child.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Weisner, Thomas S. 2008.  Well being, chaos, and culture:  Sustaining a meaningful daily routine.  In Evans, G.W. & Wachs, T.D. (Eds.). Chaos and children's development: Levels of analysis and mechanisms.

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.

Weisner, T.S. 2008. Commentary for “Multigenerational Ataques de Nervios in a Dominican-American Family.  A Form of Intergenerational Transmission of Violent Trauma?”, By Daniel S. Schechter.   In Formative Experiences.  The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology.  Carol Worthman, Ed.

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.

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, pp. 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.

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

East, Patricia L., Thomas S. Weisner, & Barbara Reyes. (2006). Youths' caretaking of their adolescent sisters' children. Its costs and benefits for youths development. Applied Developmental Science, 10:2, 86-95.

Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Danielle A. Crosby, Marika N. Ripke, Thomas S. Weisner, and C.A. Eldred. 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 (1-2), pp. 89-94.

Lowe, E. Weisner, T., Geis, S. & Huston, A. Child Care Instability and the Effort to Sustain a Working Daily Routine: Evidence from the New Hope Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Families.  In press.  IN C. Cooper, C. Garcia-Coll, T. Bartko, H. Davis, C. Chatman, Eds. Hills of Gold: Diverse Pathways Through Middle Childhood. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Weisner, T. S., Matheson, C., Coots, J, and Bernheimer, L.  2005.  Sustainability of daily routines as a family outcome. In Ashley Maynard and Mary Martini, Eds. The Psychology of Learning in Cultural Context.  New York:  Kluwer/Plenum.  Pp. 41 – 73.

Weisner, Thomas 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.

Weisner, Thomas S., & Lowe, Edward. 2005. Globalization and the Psychological Anthropology of Childhood and Adolescence. In Conerly Casey & Robert Edgerton, eds. A companion to psychological anthropology: modernity and psychocultural change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, U.K. Pp. 315 - 336.

Lowe, E., & T. S. Weisner. 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, Thomas S., & Lowe, Edward. 2004.  Globalization and the Psychological Anthropology of Childhood and Adolescence.  In Conerly Casey & Robert Edgerton, eds. A companion to psychological anthropology:  modernity and psychocultural change.  Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, U.K.

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

Daley, T., & T. S. Weisner. 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. June 2003. New Hope for Families and Children:  Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare: MDRC.

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

Axia, V. & T. S. Weisner. 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., & T. S. Weisner. 2002. Making child care choices. How welfare and work policies influence parents' decisions. New York: MDRC Policy Brief.

Gibson, C., & T.S. Weisner. 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):365-372.

Weisner, T. S., Gibson, C., Lowe, E. D., & J. Romich. 2002. Understanding Working Poor families in the New Hope Program. Poverty Research Newsletter, September. pp. 1-4

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

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 Harrison, L. E., & S. P. Huntington. (Eds.) Culture matters. How values shape human progress. New York: Basic Books, pp. 141-157.

Romich, J.L., & T.S. Weisner. (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., & T.S. Weisner (2000) La valutazione dell'ecocultura famigliare (The assessment of family ecoculture), in Axia, G., & S. Bonichini (Eds) La valutazione del bambino (Child assessment). Roma: Carocci.

Hauser-Cram, P., Warfield, M.E., Upshur, C.C., & T.S. Weisner. (2000) An expanded view of program evaluation in early childhood intervention.. In Meisels, S. J. & 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.