Marsha Weinraub, Ph.D.
Email: mweinrau@temple.edu
Phone: (215) 204-7360
Interests: Early personality development, parent-child relationships over the life span. Effects of child care. Evaluation research for early child care intervention programs.
Dr. Weinraub is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University and Chairperson of the Psychology Department in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University.
Dr. Weinraub has published widely on the effects of early child care, single parenting and maternal employment on parent-child relationships and child development. A national leader in childcare research, Dr. Weinraub testified concerning the effects of early childcare before the U.S. Congress in 1997 in hearings conducted by the Women's Congressional Caucus. Dr. Weinraub was a Principal Investigator on Phases 1 through 3 of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, a national longitudinal project investigating variations in early child care in infants and toddlers and the effect of these variations on children's social, emotional, and intellectual development from 1989 through 2004. She is now a co investigator on the adolescence phase of the NICHD project. With Dr. Anne Shlay and Michelle Harmon, Dr. Weinraub has evaluated child care intervention and subsidy programs. They have just completed a two-year project funded by the William Penn Foundation of the effects of child care subsidies on parental employment, child and family outcomes in low income families with different ethnic backgrounds.
Currently, Dr. Weinraub is Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Libraries to evaluate the impact of the 2007 One Book, Every Young Child program.
Dr. Weinraub was awarded her B.A. from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
On the Study of Parenting and Attachment
Overview of Attachment (PDF)
Infant-Mother Attachment Security (PDF)
Predicting Separation Anxiety (PDF)
Infant-Mother Attachment
Classification (PDF)
Stability of Parenting Behavior (PDF)
Child Care Effects in Context (PDF)
Familial Factors – Non Maternal Care for Infants (NICHD) (PDF)
Effects of Infant Child Care on Infant Mother Attachment Security (NICHD) (PDF)
Single Parenthood Review Chapter
On the Study of Child Care Quality and Subsidies
Catch-22 (PDF)
Barriers to Subsidies (PDF)
Subsidizing Child Care (PDF)
How Parents Evaluate Child Care (Word)
Child Care Improvement on a Shoestring (PDF)
Child Care Options and Outcomes (PDF)
Issues in Preschool Assessment
CIRCL Final Report (PDF)
NAEYC June 2004 (PPT)
Selecting Preschool Instruments (PPT)
On Preschool Education in Pennsylvania
Family Survey Exec. Summary (PDF)
Recent Reports for Foundations
Building Better Child Care
Leaving Welfare for Employment
Racial and Ethnic Differences
Getting a Jumpstart on Literacy
An Overview of Research in our Lab
Overview of Lab Research (PPT)