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Name: Erin Phelps
Title: Director of Research, Inst. For Applied Research in Youth Development
Lecturer in Child Development
Departmental Affiliation: Child Development Department
Degrees: Harvard Graduate School of Education: Ed.M., 1974; Ed.D., 1981; Douglass College of Rutgers University, B.A., 1973
Expertise: Statistics and methods for developmental research; Longitudinal data analysis; Social responsibility and development
Major Awards: Principal Investigator, National Institute of Mental Health, "Building a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Data Archive," 2001-2005,
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, Foundation for Child Development, Russell Sage Foundation, Grant Foundation “Landmark Longitudinal Studies Conference,” 1998-99,
Co-Principal Investigator, National Institute of Mental Health, "Racially and Ethnically Diverse Data Archive," 1995-2000
E-mail: Erin.Phelps@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://faculty.tufts.edu/ephelp02
http://ase.tufts.edu/adsi/index.htm
Scholarship & Research: Lerner, R. M., Lerner, J. V., Almerigi, J., Theokas, C., Phelps, E., Gestsdottir, S. Naudeau, S., Jelicic, H., Alberts, A. E., Ma, L., Smith, L. M., Bobek, D. L., Richman-Raphael, D., Simpson, I., Christiansen, E. D., & von Eye, A. (2005). Positive youth development, participation in community youth development programs, and community contributions of fifth grade adolescents: Findings from the first wave of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Journal of Early Adolescence, 25(1), 17-71.

Phelps, Erin, Frank F. Furstenburg, & Anne Colby (Eds.). (2002). Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the 20th Century. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Colby, Anne, Lorrie Sippola, & Erin Phelps. (2001). Social responsibility and paid work in contemporary American life. In Alice S. Rossi (Ed.), Caring and doing for others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work, and Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Erin Phelps, & Glen H. Elder, Jr. (1991). Studying lives through time: Secondary data analyses in developmental psychology. Developmental Psychology, 27, 899-910.

Phelps, Erin, & William Damon . (1991). Peer collaboration as a context for cognitive growth. In Liliana T. Landsmann (Ed.), Culture, Schooling, and Psychological Development. Human Development, Vol. 4. Norwood NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp, pp. 171-184.

Young, Copland H., Kristen L. Savola, & Erin Phelps. (1991). An inventory of longitudinal studies in the social sciences. Palo Alto: Sage.

Colby, Anne & Erin Phelps. (1990). Archiving longitudinal data. In D. Magnussen & Lars R. Bergman (Eds.), Data quality in longitudinal research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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