A.B.,       Harvard College, 1973, in Social Relations.                

M.S.,       Yale University, 1978, in Clinical‑Community Psychology.

Ph.D.,     Yale University, 1982, in Clinical-Community and Developmental                      Psychology.                                                                                       

Huebner, G., Boothby, N., Aber, J.L., Darmstadt, G.L., Diaz, A., Masten, A.S., Yoshikawa, H., Sachs, J., Redlener, I., Emmel, A., Pitt, M., Arnold, L., Barber, B., Berman, B., Blum, R., Canavera, M., Eckerle, J., Fox., N.A., Gibbons, J.L., Hargarten, S.W., Landers, C., Nelson, C.A. III, Pollak, S.D., Raugh, V., Samson, M., Ssewamala, F., St Clair, N., Stark., L. Waldman, R., Wessells, M., Wilson S.L, & Zeanah, C.H. (National Academies of Sciences/Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally). (2016). Beyond Survival: The Case for Investing in Young Children Globally. Washington, DC: National Academy of Medicine.

Aber, L., Butler, S., Danziger, S., Doar, R., Ellwood, D.T., Gueron, J.M., Haidt, J., Haskins, R., Holzer, H.J., Hymowitz, K., Mead, L., Mincy, R., Reeves, R.V., Strain, M.R., & Waldfogel, J. (AEI/Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity). (2015). Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream. Washington, DC: The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Brookings Institution.

Aber, J.L., Lombardi, J., Klaus, S., and Campion, K. (2013). A New Global Development Goal for the World’s Youngest Children. Commentary, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC. http://www.iom.edu/Global/Perspectives/2013/WorldsYoungestChildren

Aber, J.L. Grannis, K.S., Owen, S., & Sawhill, I. (2013). The Social Genome Project: Middle Childhood Success and Economic Mobility. Brookings Institute. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/02/15-education-success-economic-mobility-aber-grannis-owen-sawhill

Aber, L., Morris, P., & Raver, C. (2012). Children, Families and Poverty: Definitions, Trends, Emerging Science and Implications for Policy. Social Policy Report volume 26, number 3: Publication of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Morris, P., Aber, J.L., Wolf, S., & Berg, J. (2012). Using Incentives to Change How Teenagers Spend Their Time: The Effects of New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program. New York, NY: MDRC

Aber, J.L., & Rawlings, L.B. (2011). North-South Knowledge Sharing on Incentive-based Conditional Cash Transfer Programs. SP Discussion Paper No. 1101. Washington, DC: The World Bank

Aber, J.L., Bishop-Josef, S.J., Jones, S.M., McLearn, K.T. & Phillips, D.A, (Eds.) (2007). Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association

Ben-Arieh, A., Kaufman, N.H., Andrews, A.B., George, R.M., Lee, B.J., & Aber, J.L. (2000). Measuring and Monitoring Children’s Well Being. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Press.

Shirk, M., Bennett, N., & Aber, J.L. (1999). Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Brooks-Gunn, J., Duncan, G. & Aber, J.L. (Eds.) (1997). Neighborhood poverty I: Context and consequences for children. New York: Russell Sage.

Brooks-Gunn, J., Duncan, G. & Aber, J.L. (Eds.) (1997). Neighborhood poverty II: Policy implications for studying neighborhoods. New York: Russell Sage.

Starkey, L., Aber, J.L., & Crossman, A. (2019). Risk or resource: Does school climate moderate the influence of community violence on children’s social-emotional development in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Developmental Science, Special Issue Article, 22,(5), page e12845. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12845

Wolf, S., Aber, J.L., Behrman, J., Peele, M., & Tsinigo, E. (2019). Longitudinal causal impacts of preschool teacher training on Ghanaian children’s school readiness: Evidence for persistence and fadeout. Developmental Science, Special Issue Article, 22(5), page e12878. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12878

Turbeville, A., Aber, J.L., Weinberg, S., Richter, L., & van Heerden, A. (2019). The relationship between multidimensional economic well-being and children’s mental health, physical health, and executive function development in South Africa. Developmental Science, Special Issue Article, 22(5), page e12846. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12846

Schwartz, K., Cappella, E., Aber, J.L., Scott, M.A., Wolf, S., & Behrman, J. R. (2019). Early Childhood Teachers' Lives in Context: Implications for Professional Development in Under-Resourced areas. American Journal of Community Psychology, 1-16.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12325

Torrente, C., Aber, J.L., Starkey, L., Johnston, B., Shivshanker, A., Weisenhorn, N., Annan, J., Seidman, E., Wolf, S., & Tubbs Dolan, C. (2019). Improving Primary Education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: End-line Results of a Cluster-Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial of Learning in a Healing Classroom. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. Published online: 10 May 2019.https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2018.15619

Schwartz, K., Cappella, E., & Aber, J.L. (2019). Teachers’ Lives in Context: A Framework for Understanding Barriers to High-Quality Teaching Within Resource Deprived Settings. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 12(1), 160-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2018.1502385

Williams, L.D., Aber, J.L., & SIZE Research Group (2019). The Multilevel Relationship of HIV-Related Stigma on Child and Caregiver Mental Health among HIV-Affected Households in South Africa. American Journal of Community Psychology, 63, 3-16.

Turbeville, A., Aber, J.L., Weinberg, S.L., Richter, L., & Van Heerden, A. (2019). Childhood Economic Well-Being in South Africa: Construction of a Theoretically-Grounded Empirically-Derived Multidimensional Measure. Child Indicators Research. Published on line: 03 January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-018-9613-9

Wolf, S., Raza, M., Kim., S., Aber, J.L., Behrman, J., & Seidman, E. (2018). Measuring and predicting process quality in Ghanaian pre-primary classrooms using the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS). Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45, 18-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.05.003

Carlson, S.M., Shoda, Y., Ayduk, O., Aber, L., Schaefer, C., Sethi, A., Wilson, N., Peake, P.K., & Mischel, W. (2018).  Cohort Effects in Children’s Delay of Gratification. Developmental Psychology, 54(8), 1395-1407.

Gordon, N., Godfrey, E., Aber, J.L., Richter, L., & The SIZE Research Group (2017). Exploring patterns of receipt of cash grants, health care, and education among 7-10 year old children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Children and Youth Services Review, 78, 177-188. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740917303675

Morris, P. A., Aber, J. L., Wolf, S., & Berg, J. (2017). Impacts of Family Rewards on Adolescents’ Mental Health and Problem Behavior: Understanding the Full Range of Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program.  Prevention Science. Published on line: 31 January 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-017-0748-6

Aber, J.L., Tubbs, C., Torrente, C., Halpin, P.F., Johnston, B., Starkey, L., Shivshanker, A., Annan, J., Seidman, E., & Wolf, S. (2017). Promoting Children’s Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: Testing Change Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579416001139

Aber, J.L., Torrente, C., Starkey, L., Johnston, B., Seidman, E., Halpin, P., Shivshanker, A., Weisenhorn, N., Annan, J., & Wolf, S. (2017). Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children’s Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results from a Cluster Randomized Trial. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 10(3), 507-509.

Gennetian, L., Darling, M., & Aber, J.L. (2016). Behavioral Economics and Developmental Science: A New Framework to Support Early Childhood Interventions. Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk, 7(2), Article 2.   http://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol7/iss2/2/

Godfrey, E. B., Gordon, N.D., Knight, L.C., Aber, J. L., Allen, L., Richter, L. & the SIZE Research Group (2016). Which eligible households get grants: Demographic correlates of receipt in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 33(6), 774-789, DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2016.1231059. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1231059

Aber, J.L, Morris, P.A., Wolf, S., & Berg J. (2016). The Impact of a Holistic Conditional Cash Transfer Program in New York City on Parental Financial Investment, Student Time Use and Educational Processes and Outcomes. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 9(3), 335-363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2015.1107925

Collishaw, S., Gardner, F., Aber, J.L., & Cluver; L. (2016). Predictors of mental health resilience in children who have been parentally bereaved by AIDS in urban South Africa. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 719-730.

Williams, L. D., & Aber, J.L. (2016). Testing for Plausibly Causal Links between Parental Bereavement and Child Socio-emotional and Academic Outcomes: A Propensity-Score Matching Model. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 4, 705-718. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-015-0069-9#

Early, E., Berg, J.K., Alicea, S., Yajuan, S., Aber, J.L., Ryan, R.M. & Deci, E.L. (2015). The Impact of Every Classroom, Every Day on High School Student Achievement: Results from a School-Randomized Trial. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 9(1), 3-29.

Torrente, C., Johnston, B., Starkey, L., Seidman, E., Shivshanker, A., Weisenhorn, N., Annan, J., & Aber, J.L. (2015). Improving the Quality of School Interactions and Student Wellbeing: Impacts of One Year of a School-based Program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Education in Emergencies, 1(1), 48-91.

Berg, J. K., & Aber, J.L. (2015). A Multilevel View of Predictors of Children’s Perceptions of School Climate. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107(4), 1150-1170.

Wolf, S., Torrente, C., McCoy, M., Rasheed, D., & Aber, J.L. (2015). Cumulative Risk and Teacher Well-Being in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Comparative Education Review, 59(4), 717-742.

Lowenstein, A.E., Wolf, S., Gershoff, E.T., Sexton, H.R., Raver, C.C., & Aber, J.L. (2015). The stability of elementary school contexts from kindergarten to third grade. Journal of School Psychology, 53, 323-335.

Wolf, S., Torrente, C., Frisoli, P., Weisenhorn, N., Shivshanker, A., Annan, J., & Aber, J.L. (2015). Preliminary Impacts of the “Learning to Read in a Healing Classroom” Intervention on Teacher Well-being in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Teaching and Teacher Education, 52, 24-36.

Wolf, S., Aber, J. L., & Morris, P. M. (2015). Patterns of time use among low-income minority adolescents and associations with academic outcomes and problem behaviors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 44(6), 1208-1225.

Long, K., Brown, J.L, Jones, S.M., Aber, J.L., & Yates, B.T. (FirstView Article, April 2015). Cost Analysis of a School-Based Social and Emotional Learning and Literacy Intervention. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis (1-27). Advance on line publication.http ://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9641256&fileId=S2194588815000068

Naghieh, A., Montgomery, P., Bonell, C.P., Thomn, M., & Aber, J.L. (2015). Organisational interventions for improving wellbeing and reducing work-related stress in teachers. The Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane Library, Issue 4.

Conley, D., Aber, J.L., Brady, H., Cutter, S., Eckel, C., Entwisle, B., Hamilton, D., Hofferth, S., Hubacek, K., Moran, E., & Scholz, J. (2015). Big Data. Big Obstacles. The Chronicle Review, February 2, 2015). The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Big-Data-Big-Obstacles/151421/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

Wuermli, A., Tubbs, C., Petersen, A., & Aber J. (2015). Children and Youth in Low- and Middle Income Countries: Towards an Integrated Developmental and Intervention Science. Child Development Perspectives, 9(1), 1-6.

Knight, L., Roberts, B.J., Aber, J.L., Richter, L., and the SIZE Research Team. (2015). Household Shocks and Coping Strategies in Rural and Peri-Urban South Africa: Baseline data from the SIZE study in KwaZula-Natal, South Africa. Journal of International Development, 27, 213-233. Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/jid.2993.

Horan, J.M., Brown, J.L., Jones, S.M., & Aber J.L. (2014, November 10). Assessing Invariance Across Sex and Race/Ethnicity in Measures of Youth Psychopathic Characteristics. Psychological Assessment. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000043.

Moran, E.F., Hofferth, S.L., Eckel, C.C., Hamilton, D., Entwisle, B., Aber, J.L., Brady, H.E., Conley, D., Cutter, S.L., Hubacek, K., & Scholz, J.T. (2014). Building a 2lst Century Infrastructure for the Social Sciences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Aratani, Y., Lu, H-H., & Aber, J.L. (2014).  Shrinking the Public Safety Net or Helping the Poor Play by the Rules? The Changes in the State-Level Policies that Affected Low-Income Families with Children in the Welfare Reform Era: 1994-2002.  American Journal of Evaluation, 35(2), 189-213.

Hoglund, W.L.G., Jones, S.M., Brown, J.L., & Aber, J.L. (2014, July 7). The Evocative Influence of Child Academic and Social-Emotional Adjustment on Parent Involvement in Inner-City Schools.  Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037266

Desmond, C., Bruce, F., Tomlinson, M., Marlow, M.B., Aber, J.L., Ouifki, R., & Welte, A. (2014). Modelling the long-term impacts on affected children of adult HIV: benefits, challenges and a possible approach. AIDS, 28(3), S269-S275.

Berg, J., Morris, P.A., & Aber, L. (2013). Two-Year Impacts of a Comprehensive Family Financial Rewards Program on Children’s Academic Outcomes: Moderation by Likelihood of Earning rewards. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 6(4), 295-338.

Molano, A., Jones, S., Brown, J., & Aber, L. (2013). Selection and Socialization of Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Social-Cognitive Processes. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 23(3), 424-436.

Tubbs, C., & Aber, L. (2013). Cascading Effects of Parental Stress: Economic hardship reverberates through the family in multiple ways that harm children. The American Prospect, 24 (3), 69-72.

Wolf, S., Aber, J.L. & Morris, P. (2013). Drawing on Psychological Theory to Understand and Improve Antipoverty Policies: The Case of Conditional Cash Transfers. (J.) Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 19(1), 3-14. http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2012-22783-001/

Maurizi, L.K., Gershoff, E.T., & Aber, J.L. (2012). Item-Level Discordance in Parent and Adolescent Reports of Parenting Behavior and Its Implications for Adolescents’ Mental Health and Relationships with their Parents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41(8), 1035-1052. (Published on line: 19 January 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-011-9741-8 .)

Yoshikawa, H., Aber, J.L., & Beardslee, W.R. (2012). The Effects of Poverty on Children’s Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Health: Implications for Prevention. American Psychologist, 67(4), 272-284.

Godfrey, E.B., Osher, D., Williams, L.D., Wolf, S., Berg, J.K., Torrente, C., Spier, E., & Aber, J.L. (2012). Cross-national measurement of school learning environments: Creating indicators for evaluating UNICEF’s Child Friendly Schools Initiative. Children and Youth Services Review, 34, 546-557. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019074091100380X

Aber, L., Brown, J.L, & Jones, S.M., Berg, J. & Torrente, C. (2011). School-based strategies to prevent violence, trauma and psychopathology: The challenges of going to scale. Development and Psychopathology, 23(2011), 411-421.

Jones, S.M., Brown, J.L., & Aber, J.L. (2011). Two-Year Impacts of a Universal School-Based Social-Emotional and Literacy Intervention: An Experiment in Translational Developmental Research. Child Development, 82(2), 533-554 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01560.x/abstract

Zayas, V., Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., Blum Cole, A., & Aber, J.L. (2011). Roots of Adult Attachment: Maternal Caregiving at 18 Months Predicts Adult Peer and Partner Attachment. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2(3), 289-297.

Jones, S.M., Brown, J.L, Hoglund, W.L.G., & Aber, J.L. (2010). A School-Randomized Clinical Trial of an Integrated Social-Emotional Learning and Literacy Intervention: Impacts on Third-Grade Outcomes. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78(6), 829-842.

Aber, J.L., Hammond, A.S. & Thompson, S.M. (2010). U.S. Ratification of the CRC and Reducing Child Poverty: Can We Get There from Here? Child Welfare, 89(5), 159-175.

Brown, J.L., Jones, S.M., LaRusso, M.D., & Aber, J.L. (2010). Improving Classroom Quality: Teacher Influences and Experimental Impacts of the 4Rs Program. Journal of Educational Psychology, 102(1), 153-167.

Gershoff, E.T., Aber, J.L., Ware, A., & Kotler, J.A. (2010). Exposure to 9/11 Among Youth and Their Mothers in New York City: Enduring Associations with Mental Health and Sociopolitical Attitudes. Child Development, 81(4), 1141-1160.

Aber. L., Brown, J., Jones, S., & Roderick, T. (2010). SEL: The history of a research–practice partnership. Better: Evidence-based Education, 2(2), 14-15.

Aber, J.L. (2009). Experiments in 21^st century antipoverty policy. Public Policy Research, 16(1), 57-63.

Gershoff, E.T., Pederson, S. & Aber, J.L. (2009). Creating Neighborhood Typologies of GIS-Based Data in the Absence of a Neighborhood-Based Sampling: A Factor and Cluster Analytic Strategy. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 37(1), 35-47.

Clements, M., Aber, J.L. & Seidman, E. (2008). The Dynamics of Life Stressors and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence: A Test of Six Theoretical Models. Child Development, 79(4), 1168-118.

Aber, J.L. (2007). Changing the climate on early childhood. The American Prospect, Special Report, December 2007, A4-A6.

Gershoff, E. T., Aber, J. L., Raver, C. C., & Lennon, M. C. (2007). Income is not enough: Incorporating material hardship into models of income associations with parenting and child development. Child Development, 78(1), 70-95.

Raver, C. C., Gershoff, E. T., & Aber, J. L. (2007). Testing equivalence of mediating models of income, parenting, and school readiness for White, Black, and Hispanic children in a national sample. Child Development, 78(1), 96-115. 

Appelbaum, L.D., Lennon, M.C. & Aber, J.L. (2006). When effort is threatening: The influence of the belief in a just world on American’s attitudes toward anti-poverty policy. Political Psychology 27(3), 387-402.

French, S.E., Seidman, E., Allen, L., & Aber, J.L. (2006). The development of ethnic identity during adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 42(1), 1-10.

Wagmiller, R.L., Lennon, M.C., Kuang, L., Alberti, P.M., & Aber, J.L. (2006). The Dynamics of economic disadvantage and children’s life chances. American Sociological Review, 71(5), 847-866.

Eigsti, I-M., Zayas, V., Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., Ayduk, O., Dadlani, M.B., Davidson, M.C., Aber, J.L., & Casey, B.J. (2006). Predicting cognitive control from preschool to late adolescence and young adulthood. Psychological Science, 17(6), 478-484.

Rodriguez, M., Aber, J.L., Mischel, W., Sethi, A., & Shoda, Y. (2005). A contextual approach to the development of self-regulatory competencies: Maternal unresponsiveness and toddler’s negative affect in stressful situations. Social Development, 14(1), 136-157.

Pedersen, S., Seidman, E., Yoshikawa, H., Rivera, A., Allen, L., & Aber, J.L. (2005). Contextual competence: Multiple manifestations among urban adolescents. American Journal of Community Psychology, 35(1-2), 65-82.

Hoven, C.W., Duarte, C.S., Lucas, C.P., Wu, P., Mandell, D.J., Goodwin, R.D., Cohen, M., Balaban, V., Woodruff, B.A., Bin, F., Musa, G.J., Mei, L., Cantor, P.A., Aber, J.L., Cohen, P., & Susser, E. (2005). Psychopathology among New York City public school children 6 months after September 11. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(5), 545-552.

Gershoff, E., & Aber, J.L. (Eds.) (2004). Assessing the Impact of September 11^th, 2001, on Children, Youth and Parents in the U.S.: Lessons from Applied Developmental Science. Special issues of Applied Developmental Science, 8(3), 8(4)

Aber, J.L., Gershoff, E., Ware, A., & Kotler, J. (2004). Estimating the effects of September 11^th and other forms of violence on the mental health and social development of New York City’s youth: A matter of context. Applied Developmental Science, 8(3), 111-129

Aber, J.L., & Gershoff, E.T. (2004). Child, Youth, and Parent Responses to the Terrorism of September 11, 2001: Implications for Applied Developmental Science and Practice. Applied Developmental Science, 8(4) 221-225.

Lu, H-H,, Palmer, J., Song, Y., Lennon, M.C., & Aber, J.L. (2004). Children facing economic hardship in the United States: Differentials and changes in the 1990’s. Demographic Research, 10, 287-338.

Aber, J.L., Brown, J.L., & Jones, S.M. (2003). Developmental trajectories toward violence in middle childhood: Course, demographic differences, and response to school-based intervention. Developmental Psychology, 39(2), 324-348.

Berlin, L., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Aber, J.L. (2001).  Promoting early childhood development through comprehensive community initiatives. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice, 1(4), 1-24.

French, S., Seidman, E., Allen, L., & Aber, J.L. (2000).  Racial/ethnic identity, congruence with the social context, and the transition to high school. Journal of Adolescent Research, 15(5), 587-602.

Roberts, A., Seidman, E., Pedersen, S., Chesir-Teran, D., Allen, L., Aber, J.L., Duran, V., & Hsueh, J.  (2000). Perceived family and peer transactions and self-esteem among urban early adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 20(1), 68-92.

Sethi, A., Mischel, W., Aber, J.L., Shoda, Y., & Rodriguez, M.L. (2000). The role of strategic attention deployment in development of self-regulation: Predicting preschoolers' delay of gratification from mother-toddler interactions.  Developmental Psychology, 36(6), 767-777.

Knitzer, J., Yoshikawa, H., Cauthen, N.K., & Aber, J.L. (2000). Welfare reform, family support, and child development: Perspectives from policy analysis and developmental psychopathology. Development & Psychopathology, 12(4), 619-632.

Aber, J.L., Belsky, J., Slade, A., & Crnic, K. (1999). Stability and change in mother’s representations of their relationship with their toddlers. Developmental Psychology, 35(4), 1038-1047.

Slade, A., Belsky, J., Aber, J.L., & Phelps, J. (1999). Mother’s representations of their toddlers: Links to adult attachment and observed mothering. Developmental Psychology, 35(3), 611-619.

Seidman, E., Chesir-Terna, D., Friedman, J.L., Yoshikawa, H., Allen, L.A., Roberts, A., & Aber, J.L. (1999). The risk and protective function of perceived family and peer microsystems among urban adolescents in poverty. American Journal of Community Psychology, 27, 211-237.

Goodman, G., Aber, J.L., Berlin, L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1998).  The relations between maternal behaviors and urban preschool children's internal working models of attachment security.  Infant Mental Health Journal, 19(4), 338-378.

Cicchetti, D., & Aber, J.L. (Eds.) (1998).  Contextualism and developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 10(2), 137-141. 

Aber, J.L., Jones, S.M., Brown, J.L., Chaudry, N., & Samples, F., (1998).  Resolving conflict creatively: Evaluating the developmental effects of a school-based violence prevention program in neighborhood and classroom context.  Development and Psychopathology, 10(2), 187-213.

Seidman, E., Yoshikawa, H., Roberts, A., Chesir, D., Allen, L., Friedman, J.L., & Aber, J.L.  (1998). Structural and experiential neighborhood contexts, developmental stage, and antisocial behavior among urban adolescents in poverty.  Development and Psychopathology, 10(2), 259-281.

Aber, J.L., Bennett, N.G., Li, J., & Conley, D.C. (1997). The effects of poverty on child health and development.  Annual Review of Public Health, 18, 463-483.

Seidman, E., Aber, J.L., Allen, L., & French, S.E. (1996). The impact of the transition to high school on the self-system and perceived social context of poor urban youth.  American Journal of Community Psychology, 24, 489-515.

Aber, J.L., Brown, J.L., Chaudry, N., Jones, S.M., & Samples, F. (1996). The evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program: An overview.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Supplement to Volume 12(5), 82-90.

Macksoud, M., & Aber, J.L. (1996). The war experiences and psychosocial development of children in Lebanon.  Child Development, 67(1), 70-88

Knitzer, J., & Aber, J.L. (1996).  What a difference a state makes: Tracking the well-being of young children and families.  FOCUS, 18 (1), 49-51.

Aber, J.L., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Maynard, R. (1995). The effects of welfare reform on teenage parents and their children.  Future of Children, 5(2), 53-71.

Knitzer, J., & Aber, J.L. (1995). Young children in poverty: Facing the facts.  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 65(2), 174-176.

Seidman, E., Allen, L., Aber, J.L., Mitchell, C., Feinman, J., Yoshikawa, H., Comtois, K., Golz, K., Miller, R.L., Ortiz-Torres, B., & Roper, G.C. (1995).  Development and validation of adolescent perceived microsystem scales: Social support, daily hassles and involvement. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(3), 355-388.

Rogosch, F.A., Cicchetti, D., & Aber, J.L. (1995). The role of child maltreatment in early deviations in cognitive and affective processing abilities and later peer relationship problems.  Development and Psychopathology, 7(4), 591-609.

Allen, J., Leadbeater, B., & Aber, J.L.  (1994).The development of problem behavior syndromes in at-risk adolescents.  Development and Psychopathology, 6(2), 323-342.

Connell, J., Spencer, M., & Aber, J.L.  (1994). Educational risk and resilience in African-American youth: Context, self, action and outcomes in school. Child Development, 65, 493-506.

Seidman, E., Allen, L., Aber, J.L., & Mitchell, C., & Feinman, J.  (1994). The Impact of School Transitions in Early Adolescence on the Self-System and Perceived Social Context of Poor Urban Youth.  Child Development, 65, 507-522.

Goodman, G., & Aber, J.L. (Spring, 1994). Review of “Children of Alcoholics: A Critical  Appraisal of Theory and Research". Family Business Review, 6(2), 223-227 

Aber, J.L. (1992).  Commentary on "Adolescent parenting: An integrative model".  Human Development, 35(2), 100-106.

Cohn, I., & Aber, J.L. (1991). Children's rights education and advocacy: International perspectives.  The Child, Youth, and Family Services Quarterly, 14(2), 3-5.

Trickett, P., Aber, J.L., Carlson, V., & Cicchetti, D. (1991). The relationship of socioeconomic status to the etiology and developmental sequelae of physical child abuse. Developmental Psychology, 27 (1), 148-158.

Allen, J., Leadbeater, B., & Aber, J.L. (1990).  The relationship of adolescents' expectations and values to delinquency, hard drug use and unprotected sexual intercourse.  Development and Psychopathology, 2, 85-98.

Allen, J., Aber, J.L., & Leadbeater, B. (1990) Adolescent behavior problems: The influence of attachment and autonomy. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 13(3), 455-467.

Leadbeater, B., Hellner, I., Allen, J., & Aber, J.L. (1989).  The assessment of interpersonal
negotiation strategies in youth engaged in problem behaviors.  Developmental
Psychology, 25(3), 465-472.

Aber, J.L., & Allen, J. (1987).  Effects of maltreatment on young children's socio‑emotional development:  An attachment theory perspective. Developmental Psychology, 23(3), 406‑414.

Cicchetti, D., & Aber, J.L. (1980).  Abused children ‑ abusive parents:  An overstated case? Harvard Educational Review, 50(2), 244‑255.

Yoshikawa, H., Wuermli, A., & Aber, J.L. (2019). Mitigating the Impact of Forced Displacement and Refugee and Unauthorized Migration on Youth: Integrating Developmental Processes with Intervention Research. In M. Suarez-Orozco & M. Sondono (eds.), Humanitarianism and Mass Migration (pp 186-206). Berkeley, CA:

Aber, J.L. (2019). Mistake: Not Establishing the Cross-cultural Validity of Measures by Key Constructs in a High-stakes Field Experiment. In Robert J. Sternberg (Ed.) My Biggest Research Mistake (Chapter 47). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications University of California Press.

Wolf, S., Berg, J., Morris, P., & Aber, L. (2017). Conditional cash transfer programs and early childhood development. In Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal & Eric Dearing (Eds.). Handbook of Early Childhood Programs, Practices and Policies (Chapter 20). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing Inc.

Cappella, E., Aber, J.L., & Kim H. (2016). Teaching beyond Achievement Tests: Perspectives from Developmental and Education Science. In Drew H. Gitomer & Courtney A. Bell (Eds.). Handbook of Research on Teaching (5th Edition) (pp 249-347). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.

Torrente, C., Alimchandani, A., & Aber, J.L. (2015). International Perspectives on SEL. In Joseph A. Durlak, Celene E. Domitrovich, Roger P. Weissberg, Thomas P. Gullotta & (Eds.). Handbook on Social and Emotional Learning: Research and Practice (pp 566-587). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Aber, J.L. (2014). Optimizing the relationship between basic and applied research for psychology education and training. In Rainer Silbereisen, Pierre Ritchie, & Janak Pandey (Eds.) Psychology Education and Training: A Global Perspective (pp 169-181). Psychology Press.

Aber, J.L., Biersteker, L., Dawes, A., & Rawlings, L. (2013). Social Protection and Welfare Systems: Implications for Early Childhood Development. In Pia R. Britto, Patrice Engle, Charles Super, Lonnie Sherrod, & Nurper Ulkuer (Eds.) Fulfilling Every Child’s Potential: How Research Can Inform Global Policy (pp 260-274). Oxford, UK: Oxford Press.

Leos-Urbel, J. & Aber, J.L. (2012). The Challenges of Developing a Robust Knowledge Base on Complementary Education: Toward a Policy Relevant Research Agenda. In Ezekiel Dixon-Román & Edmund W. Gordon (Eds.) Thinking Comprehensively About Education: Spaces of Educative Possibility and Their Implications for Public Policy (pp 213-218). New York, NY: Routledge.

Wuermli, A., Silbereisen, R.K., Lundberg, M., Lamont, M., Behrman, J.R., & Aber, L. (2012).  A Conceptual Framework.  In Lundberg, M. & Wuermli, A. (Eds.) Children and Youth in Crisis: Protecting and Promoting Young People’s Development During Economic Shocks (pp 29-101). Washington, DC: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank.

Wuermli, A., Hempel, K., Aber, L., & Lundberg, M. (2012).  Policies to Protect and Promote Young People’s Development during Crisis.  In Lundberg, M. & Wuermli, A. (Eds.) Children and Youth in Crisis: Protecting and Promoting Young People’s Development During Economic Shocks (pp 229-277). Washington, DC: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank.

Aber, J.L. (2012).  Poor and Low-Income Families, Infant/Toddler Development and the Prospects for Change: Back to the Future.  In Samuel L. Odom, Jr., Elizabeth Pungello, and Nicole Gardner-Neblett (Eds.).  Infants, Toddlers, and Families in Poverty: Research Implications for Early Child Care. (pp 3-18).  New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Aber, J.L. & Chaudry A.  (2010). Low-Income Children, Their Families and the Great Recession: What Next in Policy? Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/publications/412069.html

Aber, J.L., Berg, J., Godfrey, E., & Torrente, C. (2009).  Using Child Indicators to Influence Policy: A Comparative Case Study.  In. S.B. Kamerman, S. Phipps & A. Ben Arieh (Eds.).  From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being: An International Perspective on Knowledge in the Service of Making Policy (pp.189-215). The Netherlands: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Gershoff, E.T., Aber, J.L. & Clements, M. (2009).  Parent Learning Support and Child Reading Ability: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis for Developmental Transactions.  In A. Sameroff (Ed.) The Transactional Model of Development: How Children and Contexts Shape Each Other (pp. 203-220).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 

LaRusso, M.D., Jones, S.M., Brown, J.L., & Aber, J.L. (2009).  School Context and Micro-Contexts: The Complexity of Studying School Settings.  In L.M. Dinella (Ed.) Conducting Science-Based Psychology Research in Schools (pp. 175-197).  Washington, DC: APA Books.

Aber, J.L. (2008).  A Big, New Investment in America’s Poorest (and Youngest?) Children: Conditional Cash Transfers.  In  BIG IDEAS For Children: Investing in our Nation’s Future (pp. 191-202).  Washington, DC: First Focus.  http://www.firstfocus.net/Download/18-Aber.pdf

Jones, S.M., Brown, J.L., & Aber J.L. (2008). Classroom Settings as Targets of Intervention and Research.  In M. Shinn & H. Yoshikawa (Eds.) Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs (pp 58-77). UK: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Aber, J.L. (2007). Across the Sectors: Commentary.  Border Crossings: On the Relations Between the Major Age-Graded Education Systems in the United States.  In S.H. Fuhrman, D.K. Cohen & F. Mosher (Eds.).  The State of Education Policy Research (pp. 225-229). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Aber, J.L., Jones, S.M., & Raver, C.C. (2007).  Poverty and child development: New perspectives on a defining issue.  In J. L. Aber, S.J. Bishop-Josef, S.M. Jones, K.T. McLearn, & D.A. Phillips (Eds.) Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action (pp. 149-166). Washington, DC: APA Press.

Gruendel, J. & Aber, J.L. (2007).  Bridging the Gap Between Research and Child Policy Change: The Role of Strategic Communications in Policy Advocacy.  In  J.L. Aber, S.J. Bishop-Josef, S.M. Jones, K.T. McLearn & D.A. Phillips (Eds.). Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action (pp. 43-58). Washington, DC: APA Press.

Gershoff, E. T., & Aber, J. L. (2006). Neighborhoods and schools: Contexts and consequences for the mental health and risk behaviors of children and youth.  In L. Balter and C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues (2nd Edition) (pp. 611-645). New York: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.

Allen, L., Bat-Chava, Y., Aber, J.L. & Seidman, E. (2005). Adolescent Racial and Ethnic Identity in Context. In G. Downey, J. Eccles, & C. Chatman (Eds.), Navigating the Future: Social identity, coping and life tasks (pp. 143-166). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Brown, J.L., Roderick, T., Lantieri, L., & Aber, J.L. (2004).  The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program:  A School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Program.  In J.E. Zins, R.P. Weissberg, M.C. Wang, & H.J. Walberg (Eds.), Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say? (pp.151-169). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Seidman, E., Aber, J.L., & French, S.E. (2004). The organization of schooling and adolescent development. In K. Maton, C. Schellenbach, B. Leadbeater, & A. Solarz (Eds.), Investing in children, youth, families, and communities: Strengths-based research and policy (pp. 233-250). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Gershoff, E.T., Aber, J.L., & Raver, C.C. (2003).  Child poverty in the U.S.: An evidence-based conceptual framework for programs and policies. In R. M. Lerner, F. Jacobs, & D. Wertlieb (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Developmental Science, Vol. 2, (pp. 81-136).  Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

Aber, J.L., Gershoff, E.T., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2002).  Social exclusion of children in the United States:  Identifying potential indicators.  In A.J. Kahn, & S.B. Kamerman (Eds.), Beyond child poverty:  The social exclusion of children, (pp. 245-286).  New York:  Columbia.

Aber, J.L., & Ellwood, D.T. (2001). Thinking about children in time.  In B. Bradbury, S. Jenkins, & J. Micklewright (Eds.), The dynamics of child poverty in industrialised countries,
(pp. 281-299).  New York, NY:  Cambridge University Press.

 Aber, J.L., Jones, S.M., & Cohen, J. (2000). The impact of poverty on the mental health and development of very young children. In C.H. Zeanah, Jr. (Ed.), Handbook of infant mental health, second edition, (pp. 113-128). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Aber, J.L.  (1999). Twenty-something: Down and out in the other America?  In A. Booth, A.C. Crouter, & M.J. Shanahan (Eds.), Transitions to adulthood in a changing economy: No work, no family, no future? (pp. 40-47). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.

Samples, F., & Aber, J.L. (1998). Evaluations of school-based violence prevention programs.  In D.S. Elliott, B.A. Hamburg, & R. Williams (Eds.), Violence in American Schools: A new perspective (pp.217-252).  New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Allen, L., Jones, S.M., Seidman, E., & Aber, J.L. (1998).  The organization of exposure to violence among urban adolescents: Clinical, prevention, and research implications.  In D.J. Flannery, & C.R. Huff (Eds.), Youth violence: Prevention, intervention, and social policy, (pp. 119-141).  Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

Aber, J.L., & Jones, S.M. (1997).  Indicators of positive development in early childhood: Improving concepts and measures. In R. Hauser, B. Brown, W. Prosser & M. Stagner (Eds.), Indicators of children's well-being, (pp. 395-427).  New York: Russell Sage.

Aber, J.L. (1997).  Measuring child poverty for use in comparative policy analysis.  In A. Ben-Arieh & H. Wintersberger (Eds.), Monitoring and measuring the state of children:  Beyond survival, (pp. 193-208).  Eurosocial Report, 62.  Vienna: European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research.

Aber, J.L., Gephart, M., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Connell, J.  (1997). Development in context: Implications for studying neighborhood effects.  In G. Duncan, J. Brooks-Gunn & J.L. Aber (Eds.), Neighborhood poverty: Context and consequences for children, (pp. 44-61).  New York: Russell Sage.

Duncan, G., & Aber, J.L. (1997).  Neighborhood models and measures.  In G. Duncan, J. Brooks-Gunn & J.L. Aber (Eds.), Neighborhood poverty: Context and consequences for children, (pp. 44-61).  New York: Russell Sage.

Halpern-Felsher, B., Connell, J. Spencer, M., Aber, J.L., Duncan, G., Clifford, E., Crichlow, W., Usinger, P., & Cole, S. (1997).  Neighborhood and family factors predicting educational risk and attainment in African-American and European-American children and adolescents. In G. Duncan, J. Brooks-Gunn & J.L. Aber (Eds.), Neighborhood poverty: Context and consequences for children, (pp. 146-173).  New York: Russell Sage.

Allen, L., Aber, J.L., Seidman, E., Denner, J., & Mitchell, C.  (1996). Midlife parenting in a Black and Latina urban sample: Effects of adolescent change across a school transition.  In C. Ryff, & M. Seltzer (Eds.), When children grow up: Development and diversity in midlife parenting, (pp. 301-335).  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Allen, L., Denner, J., Yoshikawa, H., Seidman, E., & Aber, J.L. (1996).  Acculturation and depression among Black and Latina urban girls.  In B. Leadbeater, & N. Way (Eds.), Urban girls: Resisting stereotypes, creating identities, (pp. 337-352).  New York: New York University Press.

Macksoud, M., Aber, J.L., & Cohn, I.  (1996). Assessing the impact of war on children.  In R. Apfel, & B. Simon (Eds.), Minefields in their hearts: The mental health of children in war and communal violence, (pp. 218-231).  New Haven: Yale University Press.Connell, J.P., Aber, J.L., & Walker, G.  (1995). How do urban communities affect youth? Using Social Science research to inform the design and evaluation of comprehensive community initiatives.  In J.P. Connell, A. Kubisch, L. Schorr, & C. Weiss (Eds.) New approaches to evaluating comprehensive community initiatives: Concepts, methods and contexts, (pp. 93-125).  Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families, The Aspen Institute.

Aber, J.L.  (1994). Poverty, violence and child development: Untangling family- and community- level effects.  In C. Nelson (Ed.), Threats to optimal development: Integrating biological, psychological and social risk factors.  The Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, Vol. 27, (pp. 229-272).  Hillsdale, N.J.:  Lawrence Erlbaum.

Macksoud, M., Nazar, F., & Aber, J.L. (1994).  Children's war experiences: The impact of the Iraqi occupation on the psychosocial development of children in Kuwait.  Occasional Paper, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Aber J.L. (1993).  The effects of poor neighborhoods on children, youth and families: Theory, research and policy implications.  Paper prepared for the Policy Conference on Persistent Urban Poverty, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council’s Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass.  Papers available from the National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia School of Public Health.

Slade, A., & Aber, J.L.  (1992). Attachment, drives and development: Conflicts and convergences in theory.  In J. Barrow, M. Eagle, & D. Wolitzky (Eds.), Interface of psychoanalysis and psychology, (pp. 154-185).  Washington, D.C.: APA Publications.

Aber, J.L., & Baker, A. (1990).  Security of attachment in toddlerhood: Modifying assessment procedures for joint clinical and research purposes.  In M. Greenberg, D. Cicchetti, & M. Cummings, Attachment in the preschool years, (pp. 427-460). Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Aber, J.L., Allen, J., Carlson, V., & Cicchetti, D. (1989).  The effects of maltreatment on development during early childhood: Recent studies and their theoretical, clinical and policy implications.  In D. Cicchetti, & V. Carlson (Eds.), Child maltreatment:  Theory and research on causes and consequences, (pp. 579-619).  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

Cicchetti, D., Carlson, V., Braunwald, K., & Aber, J.L. (1987). Sequelae of child maltreatment.  In R.J. Gelles, & J.B. Lancaster (Eds.), Child abuse and neglect: Biosocial dimensions, (pp. 277-298). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine De Gruyter.

Cicchetti, D., & Aber, J.L. (1986).  Early precursors of later depression:  An organizational perspective. In L.P. Lipsitt (Ed.), Advances in infancy research, Vol. 4, (pp. 87‑137).  Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Aber, J.L., & Cicchetti, D. (1984).  The socio‑emotional development of maltreated children: An empirical and theoretical analysis. In H. Fitzgerald, B. Lester, & M. Yogman (Eds.), Theory and research in behavioral pediatrics, Vol. 2, (pp. 147‑205).  New York: Plenum Press.

Aber, J.L. (1983).  Social policy issues in the prevention of burnout.  In B. Farber (Ed.), Stress and burnout in the human services professions, (pp. 213‑226).  New York:  Pergamon Press.

Aber, J.L. (1983).  The role of state government in child and family policy. In E. Zigler, S. Kagan, & E. Klugman (Eds.), Children, families and government: Perspectives on American social policy, (pp. 96‑116).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Aber, J.L., & Zigler, E. (1981).  Developmental considerations in the definition of child maltreatment.  In R. Rizley, & D. Cicchetti (Eds.), Developmental perspectives on child maltreatment:  New directions for child development, (pp. 1‑29).  San Francisco: Jossey‑Bass.

Aber, J.L. (1980).  The involuntary child placement decision: Solomon's dilemma revisited.  In G. Gerbner, C. Ross, & E. Zigler (Eds.), Child abuse:  An agenda for action, (pp. 156‑182).  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Goldman, D., Drew, J., & Aber, J.L. (1979).  Outside in:  A handbook for citizen review of children's residential facilities.  Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Cappella, E., Blair, C. & Aber, J.L. (2016). Outcomes Beyond Test Scores – What is Social Emotional Learning? Preparing Students for School and Life Success. Education Solutions Initiative NYU Steinhardt. Available at: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/e/i2/edsolutions/201609/2SELOutcomesBeyondTestScores.pdf

Huebner, G., Boothby, N., Aber, J.L., Darmstadt, G., Diaz, A., Masten, A., Yoshikawa, H., Sachs, J., Redlener, I., Emmel, A., Pitt, M., Arnold, L., Barber, B., Berman, B., Blum, R., Canavera, M., Eckerle, J., Fox, N.A., Gibbons, G., Hargarten, S.W., Landers, C., Nelson, C.A. III, Pollack, S.D., Raugh, V., Samson, M., Ssewamala, F., St Clair, N., Stark, L.B., Waldman, R., Wessells, M., Wilson, S.L., & Zeanah, C. (2016). Beyond Survival: The Case for Investing in Young Children Globally. Discussion Paper, National Academy of Medicine.

Aber, J.L., Torrente, C., Starkey, L., Wolf, S., & Johnston, B.M. (2016). Opportunities for Equitable Access to Quality Basic Education (OPEQ): Year 2 Impact Evaluation Report. Preliminary results from the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) after one year of pilot intervention.

Deci, E.L., Early, D.M., Aber, J.L., Ryan, R.M., Berg, J.K., Alicea, S. & Si, Y. (2013). Validation of the engagement, alignment, and rigor (EAR) classroom visit protocol & Every Classroom, Every Day efficacy trial. Report prepared for U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences.