2009
East, P.L, and Weisner, T.S. (2009). Mexican American Adolescents’ Family Caregiving: Selection Effects and Longitudinal Associations With Adjustment. Family Relations. 58: 562-577.
East, P.L, Weisner, T.S., and Slonim, A. (2009). Youths’ Caretaking of Their Adolescent Sisters’ Children: Results from Two Longitudinal Studies. Journal of Family Issues. 30(12): 1671-1697.
Kravitz, R.L, Paterniti, D.A., Hay, M. Cameron, Subramanian, S., Dean, D.E., Weisner, T.S., Vohra, S., & Duan, N. (2009). Marketing therapeutic precision: Potential facilitators and barriers to adoption of n-of-1 trials. Contemporary Clinical Trials 30(5): 436-445.
Weisner, T.S. (2009). Well being and sustainability of the daily routine of life. In Gordon Mathews & Carolina Izquerdo, eds. The good life: Well-being in Anthropological perspective. New York: Berghahn Press. Pp 228-247.
Weisner, T. S. (2009). Culture, Development, and Diversity: Expectable Pluralism and Expectable Conflict. Ethos. 37(2): 181-196.
2008
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.
Weisner, T.S. (2008). Review of Making Human Being Human. Bioecological perspectives on human development. By Urie Brofenbrenner, Ed. In Mind, Culture, and Activity 15: 258-262.
- 2007Skinner, Debra, & Weisner, T.S. (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. & Weisner, T.S. (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. - 2006Yoshikawa, 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.
- 2005Huston, 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.
- 2004Lowe, 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.
- 2003Weisner, 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.S. (2003). New Hope for Families and Children: Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare. New York: MDRC.Leiber, E., Weisner, T.S. & Presley, M. (2003). EthnoNotes: An Internet-Based Field Note Management Tool. Field Methods, 15(4): 405-425.
- 2002Axia, 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. & Olmstead, R. (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.
- 2001Weisner, T.S. (2001). Childhood: Anthropological aspects. InN.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., Ryan, G., Reese, L., Kroesen, K., Bernheimer, L., & Gallimore. R. (2001). Behavior sampling and ethnography: Complementary methods for understanding home-school connections among Latino immigrant families. Field Methods. 13(1): 20-46.
- 2000Weisner, 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).