J. Lawrence Aber
· Paulette Goddard Professor of Psychology and Public PolicyNew York University · Educational Psychology
Active 1979–2026
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About
Professor J. Lawrence Aber is a co-founder of Global TIES for Children at NYU, an international research center that combines cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary research to support initiatives enabling children, their caregivers, teachers, and communities to thrive. His work involves examining early childhood development, education, and peace in a divided world, with a focus on ethical and culturally responsive biomarker research in the majority world. He has contributed to understanding the effects of early childhood programs, such as father engagement initiatives in refugee camps, and has been involved in projects related to health-care services, inequality in early childhood development, and innovative educational models. His research aims to inform policy and practice to improve outcomes for children globally.
Research topics
- Business
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Finance
- Environmental planning
- Public economics
- Medicine
- Economic growth
- Developmental psychology
- Economics
Selected publications
A new vehicle to accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals
The Lancet Global Health · 2020 · 44 citations
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unquestionably visionary. But with only a decade left until 2030, the UN Secretary General has announced that we are at a crossroads in the achievement of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development,1UNReport of the secretary general on SDG progress 2019: special edition. United Nations, New York2019Google Scholar and member states have released a political declaration to demand accelerated implementation.2UNResolution adopted by the general assemb…
Post-migration risks, developmental processes, and learning among Syrian refugee children in Lebanon
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology · 2020 · 37 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingRefugee children face significant adversities that can threaten critical developmental processes and hamper learning outcomes. This study examines how post-migration risk factors at the community, household, and individual level experienced by primary school-aged Syrian refugee children in Lebanon (N = 448, Age M = 9.08, SD = 1.90) are associated with cognitive, emotional, and behavioral developmental processes as well as literacy and numeracy performance. We identified several risk factors, inc…
Journal of Educational Psychology · 2023-01-03 · 25 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorBehavioral insights into cash transfers to families with children
Behavioral Science & Policy · 2021 · 22 citations
Cash transfer programs aim to lessen the harmful effects of economic deprivation by giving cash or its equivalent directly to people in need. In this article, we combine insights from three areas of behavioral science—economics, child development, and cognitive psychology (including behavioral economics and the psychology of poverty)—to shed light on the logic behind providing cash transfers to families with children and to identify specific design features that policymakers should consider when…
Frontiers in Psychology · 2023-01-25 · 9 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorIntroduction: In humanitarian settings, social-emotional learning (SEL) programs for children are often delivered using a field-feasible approach where the programs are more easily deployable and adaptable in the field, require minimal training, and depend less on the strict sequence and structure of the program components to elicit the intended treatment effect. However, evidence is lacking on what aspects of this implementation approach enable the SEL programming to be more beneficial to child…
Recent grants
NIH · $1.1M · 2005
NIH · $2.3M · 2014
NIH · $2.2M · 2012
Frequent coauthors
- 38 shared
Lindsay Brown
- 31 shared
Edward Seidman
New York University
- 27 shared
Sharon Wolf
University of Pennsylvania
- 25 shared
Elizabeth T. Gershoff
- 25 shared
Joshua L. Brown
Fordham University
- 23 shared
Stephanie M. Jones
- 22 shared
Ha Yeon Kim
New York University
- 20 shared
Carly Tubbs Dolan
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