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Browse our curated library of articles, reports, fact sheets, policy briefs, and other publications to find the Chicago-based early childhood research evidence you need. Can’t find what you are looking for? Email us at ecreach@northwestern.edu.

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Silver, H. Callie; & Zinsser, Katherine M.

The Interplay among Early Childhood Teachers’ Social and Emotional Well-Being, Mental Health Consultation, and Preschool Expulsion

Article published in Early Education and Development

Evens, Anne; Hryhorczuk, Daniel; Lanphear, Bruce P.; Rankin, Kristin M.; Lewis, Dan A.; Forst, Linda; & Rosenberg, Deborah

The impact of low-level lead toxicity on school performance among children in the Chicago Public Schools: a population-based retrospective cohort study

Article published in Environmental Health

Benaron, Harry B. W.; & Tucker, Beatrice E.

The effect of obstetric management and factors beyond clinical control on maternal mortality rates at the Chicago Maternity Center from 1959 to 1963

Article published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Conyers, Liza M.; Reynolds, Arthur J.; & Ou, Suh-Ruu

The Effect of Early Childhood Intervention and Subsequent Special Education Services: Findings from the Chicago Child-Parent Centers

Article published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Hauck, Fern R.; Moore, Cathryn Merrick; Herman, Stanislaw M.; Donovan, Mark; Kalelkar, Mitra; Christoffel, Katherine Kaufer; Hoffman, Howard J.; & Rowley, Diane

The Contribution of Prone Sleeping Position to the Racial Disparity in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: The Chicago Infant Mortality Study

Article published in Pediatrics

Stein, Amanda; Freel, Karen; Hanson, Ann T.; Pacchiano, Debra; & Eiland-Williford, Brenda

The Educare Chicago Research-Program Partnership and Follow-Up Study: Using Data on Program Graduates to Enhance Quality Improvement Efforts

Article published in Early Education and Development

Guest, Avery M.; Almgren, Gunnar; & Hussey, Jon M.

The ecology of race and socioeconomic distress: Infant and working-age mortality in Chicago

Article published in Demography

Watts, Tyler W.; Gandhi, Jill; Ibrahim, Deanna A.; Masucci, Michael D.; & Raver, C. Cybele

The Chicago School Readiness Project: Examining the long-term impacts of an early childhood intervention

Open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

Ross, Christine; Moiduddin, Emily; Meagher, Cassandra; & Carlson, Barbara

The Chicago Program Evaluation Project: A Picture of Early Childhood Programs, Teachers, and Preschool-Age Children in Chicago

Report published by Mathematica Policy Research

The Chicago Child-Parent Centers: A Longitudinal Study of Extended Early Childhood Intervention

Article published by the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Raver, C. Cybele; Jones, Stephanie M.; Li-Grining, Christine; Zhai, Fuhua; Metzger, Molly W.; & Solomon, Bonnie

Targeting children's behavior problems in preschool classrooms: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

Article published in the Journal of Consultating and Clinical Psychology

Goerge, Robert; Smithgall, Cheryl; Seshadri, Roopa; & Ballard, Peter

The Big Picture: Illinois Families and Their Use of Multiple Service Systems

Report published by Chapin Hall

Li-Grining, Christine P.; Raver, C. Cybele; Jones-Lewis, Darlene; Madison-Boyd, Sybil; & Lennon, Jaclyn

Targeting Classrooms' Emotional Climate and Preschoolers' Socioemotional Adjustment: Implementation of the Chicago School Readiness Project

Article published in Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community

Becker, Adam B.; Longjohn, Matt; & Christoffel, Katherine Kaufer

Taking on childhood obesity in a big city: Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC)

Article published in Progress in Pediatric Cardiology

Hurwitz, Lisa B.; Lauricella, Alexis R.; Hanson, Ann; Raden, Anthony; & Wartella, Ellen

Supporting Head Start parents: impact of a text message intervention on parent–child activity engagement

Article published in Early Child Development and Care

Surveys of Chicago Parents About Schooling in the Pandemic

Report published by NORC at the University of Chicago

Steinberg, Matthew P.; Allensworth, Elaine; & Johnson, David W.

Student and Teacher Safety in Chicago Public Schools: The Roles of Community Context and School Social Organization

Article published by the Consortium on Chicago School Research

Bishop-Royse, J.; Lange-Maia, B.; Murray, L.; Shah, R. C.; & DeMaio, F.

Structural racism, socio-economic marginalization, and infant mortality

Article published in Public Health

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Research Library Search & Inclusion Guidelines

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We rely on systematic review approach as outlined by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA).
The literature search, conducted in 2024, provided a pool of potential products. Our systematic review approach was as follows:

We conducted searches by different sources:
- Journals that publish articles on early childhood care and education (ECRQ, Child Development, EED, JAMA, Pediatrics, etc)
- Organizations that conduct and support early childhood care and education in the Chicago area (Start Early, Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative (IWERC), Center for Early Learning Funding Equity (CELFE), Illinois Action for Children, Chapin Hall, NORC, Lurie Children’s Hospital)
- Universities in the Chicago area (University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago, Northwestern, DePaul, etc.)
We also conducted relevant google searches, such as
- "infants Chicago"‍
- "toddlers Chicago"‍
- "home visiting Chicago"‍
- "preschool Chicago"
These search results were narrowed down by geography. Our focus was Chicago. We also included statewide research (Illinois) that covered Chicago. We included studies that were in two locations as long as one was Chicago (i.e. New York and Chicago)‍
The results were narrowed further by age range. Our focus was early childhood (birth to 5). We included literature that included but went beyond early childhood (i.e. ages 3-8).‍
Types of products included: journal articles and reports.‍
Many entries are 2020 on, but we do have articles ranging back to the 1950s if they play an important part in the body of Chicago early childhood literature.

Borderline entries were discussed by the E C*REACH team to decide about inclusion. Our review process ultimately yielded 190 entries. We expect to regularly add new entries, and we welcome our Research Library users to submit additional entries for review and inclusion. Please email us at ecreach@northwestern.edu for questions, comments, and new research library entries.

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