Examples of some papers based on secondary data analyses:

• Bradley, R. H., Whiteside-Mansell, L., Brisby, J. A., & Caldwell, B. M. (1997). Parents' socioemotional investment in children. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 59, 77-90.



• Booth, C. L., & Kelly, J. F. (1998). Child-care characteristics of infants with and without special needs: Comparisons and concerns. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 13, 603-621.



• Corwyn, R., & Bradley, R. H. (1999). Determinants of parental and maternal investment in children. Infant Mental Health Journal, 20, 238-256.



• O'Brien, M., Roy, C., Jacobs, A., Macaluso, M., & Peyton, V. (1999). Conflict in the dyadic play of 3-year-old children. Early Education and Development, 10, 289-313.



• Clarke-Stewart, K. A., & Fitzpatrick, M. J., Allhusen, V. D., & Goldberg, W.A. (2000). Measuring difficult temperament the easy way. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 21, 207-220.



• Clarke-Stewart, K. A., Vandell, D. L., McCartney, K., Owen, M. T., & Booth, C. L. (2000). Effects of parental separation and divorce on very young children. Journal of Family Psychology, 14, 304-326.



• Kelley, S. A., Brownell, C. A., & Campbell, S. B. (2000). Mastery motivation and self-evaluative affect in toddlers: Longitudinal relations with maternal behavior. Child Development, 71, 1061-1071.



• O'Brien, M., Peyton, V., Mistry, R., Hruda, L., Jacobs, A., Caldera, Y., et al. (2000). Gender-role cognition in three-year-old boys and girls. Sex Roles, 42, 1007-1025.



• Owen, M. T., Ware, A. M., & Barfoot , B. (2000). Caregiver-mother partnership behavior and the quality of caregiver-child and mother-child interactions. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 15, 413-428.



• Whiteside-Mansell, L., Bradley, R. H., & Rakow, E. (2000). Similarities and differences in parental investment for mothers and fathers. Journal of Family Issues, 22, 63-83.



• Belsky, J., Friedman, S. L., & Hsieh, K. (2001). Testing a core emotion-regulation prediction: Does early attentional persistence moderate the effect of infant negative emotionality on later development? Child Development, 72, 123-133.



• Costigan, C. L. & Cox, M. J. (2001). Fathers' participation in family research: Is there a self-selection bias? Journal of Family Psychology, 15, 706-720.



• Dearing, E., McCartney, K., Marshall, N. L., & Warner, R. M. (2001). Parental reports of children's sleep and wakefulness: Longitudinal associations with cognitive and language outcomes. Infant Behavior and Development, 24, 151-170.



• Dearing, E., McCartney, K., & Taylor, B. (2001). Change in family income-to-needs matters more for children with less. Child Development, 72, 1779-1793.



• Peyton, V., Jacobs, A., O'Brien, M., & Roy, C. (2001). Reasons for choosing child care: Associations with family factors, quality, and satisfaction. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 16, 191-208.



• Belsky, J. & Fearon, R. M. P. (2002). Infant-mother attachment security, contextual risk, and early development: A moderational analyses. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 293-310.



• Belsky, J., & Fearon, R. M. P. (2002). Early attachment security, subsequent maternal sensitivity, and later child development: Does continuity in development depend upon continuity of caregiving? Attachment and Human Development, 4, 361-387



• Booth, C. L., Clarke-Stewart, K. A., Vandell, D. L., McCartney, K., & Owen, M. T. (2002). Child-care usage and mother-infant "quality time." Journal of Marriage and Family, 64, 16-26.



• Brooks-Gunn, J., Han, W-J., & Waldfogel, J. (2002). Maternal employment and child cognitive outcomes in the first three years of life: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Child Development, 73, 1052-1072.



• Clarke-Stewart, K. A., Vandell, D. L., Burchinal, M., O'Brien, M., & McCartney K. (2002). Do regulable features of child-care homes affect children's development? Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 17, 52-86.



• Corwyn, R. F., & Bradley R. H. (2002). Stability of maternal socioemotional investment in young children. Parenting: Science and Practice, 2, 27-46.



• Early, D., Rimm-Kaufman, S., Cox, M., Saluja, G., Pianta, R., Bradley, R., et al. (2002). Maternal sensitivity and wariness in the transition to kindergarten. Parenting: Science and Practice, 2, 355-377.



• La Paro, K. M., Olsen, K., Pianta, R. C. (2002). Special education eligibility: Developmental precursors over the first three years of life. Exceptional Children, 69, 55-66.



• O'Brien, M., & Peyton, V. (2002). Parenting attitudes and marital intimacy: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Family Psychology, 16, 118-127.



• Pianta, R. C., La Paro, K. M., Payne, C., Cox, M. J., & Bradley, R. (2002). The relation of kindergarten classroom environment to teacher, family, and school characteristics and child outcomes. The Elementary School Journal, 102, 225-238.



• Rimm-Kaufman, S., Early, D., Cox, M. Saluja, G., Pianta, R., Bradley, R., et al. (2002). Early behavioral attributes and teachers' sensitivity as predictors of competent behavior in the kindergarten classroom. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 23, 451-470.



• Stuhlman, M., & Pianta, R. (2002). Teachers' narratives about their relationships with children: Associations with behavior in classrooms. School Psychology Review, 31, 148-163.



• Booth, C. L., Kelly, J. F., Spieker, S. J., & Zuckerman, T. G. (2003). Toddlers' attachment security to child-care providers: The Safe and Secure Scale. Early Education and Development, 14, 83-100.



• Boyle, D. E., Marshall, N. L., & Robeson, W. W. (2003). Gender at play: Fourth-grade girls and boys on the playground. American Behavioral Scientist, 46, 1326-1345.



• Bradley, R. H., Caldwell, B. M. & Corwyn, R. F. (2003). The Child Care HOME inventories: Assessing the quality of family child care homes. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18, 294-309.



• Burchinal, M. R., & Cryer, D. (2003). Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18, 401-426.



• Fraley, R. C., & Spieker, S. J. (2003). Are infant attachment patterns continuously or categorically distributed? A taxometric analysis of Strange Situation behavior. Developmental Psychology, 39, 387-404.



• Fraley, R. C., & Spieker, S. J. (2003). What are the differences between dimensional and categorical models of individual differences in attachment? Reply to Cassidy (2003), Cummings (2003), Sroufe (2003), and Waters and Beauchaine (2003). Developmental Psychology, 39, 423-429.



• Konold, T., Hamre, B., & Pianta, R. (2003). Measuring problem behaviors in young children. Behavioral Disorders, 28, 111-123.



• McElwain, N. L., Cox, M. J., Burchinal, M. R., & Macfie, J. (2003). Differentiating among insecure mother-infant attachment classifications: A focus on child-friend interaction and exploration during solitary play at 36 months. Attachment and Human Development, 5, 136-164.



• McNamara, P., Belsky, J., & Fearon, P. (2003). Infant sleep disorders and attachment: Sleep problems in infants with insecure-resistant versus insecure-avoidant attachments to mother. Sleep and Hypnosis, 5, 17-26.



• Rimm-Kaufman, S., Pianta, R., Cox, M., & Bradley, R. (2003). Teacher-rated family involvement and children's social and academic outcomes in kindergarten. Early Education & Development, 14, 179-198.



• Vandell, D. L., McCartney, K., Owen, M. T., Booth, C., & Clarke-Stewart, A. (2003). Variations in child care by grandparents during the first three years. Journal of Marriage and Family, 65, 375-381.



• Whiteside-Mansell, L., Bradley, R. H., Owen, M. T., Randolph, S. M., & Cauce, A. M. (2003). Parenting and children's behavior at 36 months: Equivalence between African American and European American mother-child dyads. Parenting: Science and Practice, 3, 197-234.



• Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Kroonenberg, P. M. (2004). Differences in attachment security between African-American and White children: Ethnicity or socio-economic status? Infant Behavior and Development. 27, 417-433



• Belsky, J. & Fearon, R.M.P. (2004). Exploring Marriage-Parenting Typologies, Their Contextual Antecedents and Developmental Sequelae. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 501-524.



• Booth-LaForce, C. L., & Kelly, J. F. (2004). Childcare patterns and issues for families of preschool children with disabilities. Infants & Young Children, 17, 5-16.



• Campbell, S.B., Brownell, C. A., Hungerford, A., Spieker, S., Mohan, R., & Blessing, J. (2004). The course of maternal depressive symptoms and maternal sensitivity as predictors of attachment security at 36 months. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 231-252.



• Fearon, R.M.P. & Belsky, J. (2004). Attachment and Attention: Protection in Relation to Gender and Cumulative Social-Contextual Adversity. Child Development, 75, 1-17.



• McCartney, K., Owen, M. T., Booth, C. L., Clarke-Stewart, A., & Vandell, D. L. (2004). Testing a maternal attachment model of behavior problems in early childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 765-778.



• Bub, K.L., & McCartney, K (in press). On child care as a support for maternal employment. Journal of Social Issues.



• Dearing, E., Taylor, B., & McCartney, K. (in press). The implications of family income dynamics for women's depressive symptoms. American Journal of Public Health.



• Han, W-J. (in press). Nonstandard work schedules and child care decisions: Evidence from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.



• Schwebel, D. C., & Brezausek, C. M. (2004). The role of fathers in toddlers' unintentional injury risk. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 29, 19-29.



• Taylor, B., Dearing, E., & McCartney, K. (in press). Incomes and outcomes in early childhood. Journal of Human Resources.



• Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Tavecchio, L. W. C., & Riksen-Walraven, J. M. A. (2004). De kwaliteit van de Nederlandse kinderopvang [The quality of Dutch day care]. Amsterdam: Boom Pers.



• Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Vereijken, C. M. J. L., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Riksen-Walraven, J. M. A. (in press). Is the Attachment Q-Sort a valid measure of attachment security in young children? Child Development.