The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy

Featured Publications

  • Slopen, N., Cosgrove, C., Acevedo-Garcia, D., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Shonkoff, J. P., & Noelke, C. (2023). Neighborhood Opportunity and Mortality Among Children and Adults in Their Households. Pediatrics 151(4): e2022058316. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2022-058316
  • Joshi, P., Walters, A. N., Noelke, C., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2022). Families’ Job Characteristics and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Differences by Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 8(5) 67-95.  https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.04
  • Noelke, C., Outrich, M., Baek, M., Reece, J., Osypuk, T. L., McArdle, N., Ressler, R. W., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2022). Connecting past to present: Examining different approaches to linking historical redlining to present day health inequities. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0267606. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267606
  • Acevedo-Garcia, D., Walters, A. N., Shafer, L., Wong, E., & Joshi, P. (2022). A Policy Equity Analysis of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Fully Including Children in Immigrant Families and Hispanic Children in this Key Anti-Poverty Program. Data-for-Equity Research Report. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University and diversitydatakids.org. Available at https://www.diversitydatakids.org/research-library/research-report/policy-equity-analysis-eitc.
  • Acevedo-Garcia, D., Joshi, P., Ruskin, E., Walters, A. N., Sofer, N., & Guevara, C. A. (2021). Including Children in Immigrant Families in Policy Approaches to Reduce Child Poverty. Academic Pediatrics 21(8): S117-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.06.016
  • Acevedo-Garcia, D., Noelke, C., McArdle, N., Sofer, N., Hardy, E., Weiner, M., Baek, M., Huntington, N., Huber, R., & Reece, J. (2020). Racial And Ethnic Inequities In Children’s Neighborhoods: Evidence From The New Child Opportunity Index 2.0. Health Affairs 39(10). https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00735
  • Acevedo-Garcia, D., Noelke, C., McArdle, N., Sofer, N., Huntington, N., Hardy, E., Huber, R., Baek, M., & Reece, J. (2020). The Geography of Child Opportunity: Why Neighborhoods Matter for Equity: First findings from the Child Opportunity Index 2.0. Data-for-Equity Research Report. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University and diversitydatakids.org. Available at https://www.diversitydatakids.org/research-library/research-report/geography-child-opportunity-why-neighborhoods-matter-equity.
  • Joshi, P., Baldiga, M., Earle, A., Huber, R., Osypuk, T., & Acevedo-Garcia, D. (2019). How much would family and medical leave cost workers in the US? Racial/ethnic variation in economic hardship under unpaid and paid policies. Community, Work & Family 24, 2021 (5): 517-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2019.1704398