Douglas B. Downey

7.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
59 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Douglas B. Downey is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas B. Downey has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Education, 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 17 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Douglas B. Downey's work include School Choice and Performance (23 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (20 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (17 papers). Douglas B. Downey is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (23 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (20 papers) and Family Dynamics and Relationships (17 papers). Douglas B. Downey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Douglas B. Downey's co-authors include Shana Pribesh, Paul T. von Hippel, Dennis J. Condron, Brian Powell, Joseph Workman, Anastasia S. Vogt Yuan, Nicholas J. Rowland, Melanie M. Hughes, Benjamin G. Gibbs and Mikaela J. Dufur and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, American Sociological Review and American Journal of Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Douglas B. Downey

57 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

When Bigger Is Not Better: Family Size, Parental Resources, and Children's Educational Performance

1995 685 citations Douglas B. Downey American Sociological Review profile →
Are Schools the Great Equalizer? Cognitive Inequality during the Summer Months and the School Year

2004 544 citations Douglas B. Downey et al. American Sociological Review profile →
Assessing the Oppositional Culture Explanation for Racial/Ethnic Differences in School Performance

1998 469 citations Douglas B. Downey et al. American Sociological Review profile →
Fifty Years since the Coleman Report

2016 181 citations Douglas B. Downey, Dennis J. Condron Sociology of Education profile →
Inequality in Reading and Math Skills Forms Mainly before Kindergarten: A Replication, and Partial Correction, of “Are Schools the Great Equalizer?”

2018 134 citations Joseph Workman, Douglas B. Downey et al. Sociology of Education profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Number of Siblings and Mental Health Among Adults: A Life Course Resource Dilution Model 2025 ·Journal of Family Issues ·Douglas B. Downey, (unknown)	0
2	How Does Schooling Affect Inequality in Cognitive Skills? The View From Seasonal Comparison Research 2023 ·Review of Educational Research ·Douglas B. Downey	2
3	The Inverse Association Between Number of Siblings and Divorce: New Evidence From China and Europe 2023 ·Journal of Family Issues ·Douglas B. Downey, (unknown), (unknown)	1
4	Number of Siblings and Mental Health Among Adolescents: Evidence From the U.S. and China 2023 ·Journal of Family Issues ·Douglas B. Downey, (unknown)	7
5	Schools as a Relatively Standardizing Institution: The Case of Gender Gaps in Cognitive Skills 2022 ·Sociology of Education ·Douglas B. Downey, Megan Kuhfeld, Margriet van Hek	7
6	Schools as Refractors: Comparing Summertime and School-Year Skill Inequality Trajectories 2021 ·Sociology of Education ·Dennis J. Condron, Douglas B. Downey, Megan Kuhfeld	12
7	The Distribution of School Quality: Do Schools Serving Mostly White and High-SES Children Produce the Most Learning? 2019 ·Sociology of Education ·Douglas B. Downey, David M. Quinn, (unknown)	18
8	Machine learning mortality classification in clinical documentation with increased accuracy in visual‐based analyses 2019 ·Acta Paediatrica ·(unknown), (unknown), Debra E. Weese‐Mayer, William A. Grobman, Douglas B. Downey, Karna Murthy	8
9	Socioeconomic, Ethnic, Racial, and Gender Gaps in Children’s Social/Behavioral Skills: Do They Grow Faster in School or out? 2019 ·Sociological Science ·Douglas B. Downey, Joseph Workman, Paul von Hippel	15
10	The (Conditional) Resource Dilution Model: State- and Community-Level Modifications 2016 ·Demography ·Benjamin G. Gibbs, Joseph Workman, Douglas B. Downey	53
11	Two Questions for Sociologists of Education 2016 ·Sociology of Education ·Douglas B. Downey, Dennis J. Condron	3
12	Sex Differences in Parenting Behaviors in Single‐Mother and Single‐Father Households 2010 ·Journal of Marriage and the Family ·Mikaela J. Dufur, (unknown), Douglas B. Downey, James W. Ainsworth, (unknown)	59
13	Assessing the advantages of a multi-method approach: Measuring mothering with data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort 2010 ·Social Science Research ·Deniz Yücel, Douglas B. Downey	8
14	Childhood body mass index gain during the summer versus during the school year 2007 ·New Directions for Youth Development ·Douglas B. Downey, (unknown)	24
15	School reform proposals : the research evidence 2002 ·Alex Molnar, W. Steven Barnett, Jeremy D. Finn, Craig B. Howley, Gene V. Glass, Douglas B. Downey, Catherine A. Lugg, Barak Rosenshine, Robert M. Carini, Haggai Kupermintz, Ulrich C. Reitzug, Gerald W. Bracey	100
16	Number of siblings and intellectual development: The resource dilution explanation. 2001 ·American Psychologist ·Douglas B. Downey	283
17	Number of siblings and intellectual development: The resource dilution explanation. 2001 ·American Psychologist ·Douglas B. Downey	295
18	Much Ado about Siblings: Change Models, Sibship Size, and Intellectual Development 1999 ·American Sociological Review ·Douglas B. Downey, Lala Carr Steelman, Brian Powell, Shana Pribesh	7
19	Why are residential and school moves associated with poor school performance? 1999 ·Demography ·Shana Pribesh, Douglas B. Downey	312
20	The School Performance of Children From Single-Mother and Single-Father Families: 1994 ·Journal of Family Issues ·Douglas B. Downey	141

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