Peer-reviewed Articles

Cook, K. D., Fisk, E., Lombardi, C. M., & Ferreira van Leer, K. (2024). Caring for whole families:  Relationships between providers and families during infancy & toddlerhood, Early Childhood Education Journal, , 52, 921–933.
Chazan Cohen, R., Von Ende, A., & Lombardi, C. (2023). Parenting and family self-sufficiency within Early Head Start. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1302687.
Cook, K. D., Ferreira van Leer, K. V. L., & Lombardi, C. M. (2023). Does child and provider racial/ethnic match in Early Head Start benefit children and parents? Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 62, 275-286.
Hatton-Bowers, H., Lombardi, C. M., Kemp, B., Decker, K. B., Virmani, E. A., Brophy-Herb, H. E., & Vallotton, C. D. (2023). Risks and resources for college students’ mental health: ACEs, attachment, and mindfulness. Journal of American College Health, 71(5), 1510–1521.
Jiang, Q., Markham Risica, P. M., Tovar, A., Cooksey Stowers, K., Schwartz, M., Lombardi, C., & Gans, K. M. (2023). Nutrition practices of family child care home providers and children’s diet quality. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 55(7), 480-492.
Jiang, Q., Risica, P., Tovar, A., Cooksey-Stowers, K., Schwartz, M., Lombardi, C., Alhassan, S., & Gans, K. (2023). Effect of applying best practices for physical activity and screen time to family childcare homes. Preventing Chronic Disease, 20(4).
Jiang, Q., Risica, P. M., Tovar, A., Cooksey-Stowers, K. C., Schwartz, M. B., Lombardi, C., & Gans, K. M. (2023). Mediation of the association between social environmental characteristics of family childcare home and weight status in children by diet quality. BMC Public Health, 23(1).
Lombardi, C. M. (2023). Early maternal employment and children’s school readiness: Changing associations over time? Journal of Child and Family Studies, 32, 1032-1047. 
Lombardi, C. M., Cook, K. D., & Fisk, E. (2023). Family ecological resources and risks: The moderating role of Early Head Start. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 64, 216-228.
Raikes, H., Chazan-Cohen, R., Harden, B.J., Byrd, J.J., Svoboda, E., Welch, G., Esteraich, J., Deming, J., Drouin, A. & Escalante, E. (2023). Evidence of the effectiveness of a home visiting model in rural communities: Early steps to school success. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 63, 299-312.

Torquati, J., Lombardi, C., Chazan Cohen, R., Matthews, A. & Brophy-Herb, H. (2023) Mindfulness, coping, and disruptions as predictors of college student distress at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of American College Health.
Bullinger, L. R., Gopalan, M., & Lombardi, C. M. (2022). Impacts of publicly funded health insurance for adults on children’s academic achievement. Southern Economic Journal, 89, 860–884. 
Cavallari, J. M., Laguerre, R., Ferguson, J. M., Garza, J., Suleiman, A., Lombardi, C. M., Barnes-Farrell, J., & Dugan, A. G. (2022). The development and initial validation of a new working time scale for full-time workers with non-standard schedules. BMC Public Health, 22, 1586.
Dearing, E., Casey, B., Davis-Kean, P., Eason, S., Gunderson, E. Levine, S. C., Libertus, M., Lombardi, C. M., Nelson, A., Ramani, G., & Susperreguy, M. I. (2022). Socioeconomic variations in the frequency of parent number talk: A meta-analysis. Education Sciences, 12(5), 312.
Gopalan, M., Lombardi, C. M., & Bullinger, L. R. (2022). Effects of parental public health insurance eligibility on parent and child health outcomes. Economics and Human Biology, 44, 101098. 
Heberle, A.E. & Chazan-Cohen, R. (2022). Longitudinal and reciprocal relations among parent and child outcomes for Black Early Head Start families, Early Education and Development.
Fisk, E. & Lombardi, C. M. (2021). Are math and behavioral skills interrelated? A longitudinal analysis in early childhood. Developmental Psychology, 57(12), 2106–2118. 
Lombardi, C. M. (2021). Family income and mothers’ parenting quality: Within-family associations from infancy to late childhood. Children and Youth Services Review, 120, 105799.
Lombardi, C. M. & Dearing, E. (2021). Maternal support of children’s math learning in associations between family income and math school readiness. Child Development, 92(1), e39-e55.
Lombardi, C. M., Fisk, E., & Cook, K. D. (2021). Do child care characteristics during toddlerhood explain income-based gaps in reading and math skills at preschool? The role of caregiver reading with children. Children and Youth Services Review, 131, 106285. 
Peterson, C., Zhang, D., Flittner, A. Shelley, M.C., Doudna, K., Chazan-Cohen, R., Aaron, L., Fan, L. (2021). Estimating Home Visit Activities: How Much Observation is Enough? Child & Youth Care Forum.
Green, B.L., Ayoub, C., Bartlett, J.D., Furrer, C., Chazan-Cohen, R., Buttita, K., Von Ende, A., Koepp, A. & Regalbuto, E. (2020).  Pathways to Prevention:  Early Head Start Outcomes in the First Three Years Lead to Long-Term Reductions in Child Maltreatment. Child and Youth Services Review, 118.
Thomson, D., Casey, B. M., Lombardi, C. M., & Nguyen, H. N. (2020). Quality of fathers’ spatial concept support during block building predicts their daughters’ early math skills – but not their sons’. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 50(3), 51-64.
Virmani, E. A., Hatton-Bowers, H., Lombardi, C. M., Decker, K., King, E. K., Plata-Potter, S. I., & Vallotton, C. (2020). How are preservice early childhood professionals’ mindfulness, reflective practice beliefs, and individual characteristics associated with their developmentally supportive responses to infants and toddlers? Early Education and Development, 31(7), 1052-1070.

Gardner-Neblett, N., Vallotton, C., Henk, J., Rucker, L. & Chazan-Cohen, R. (2020). The What, How, and Who of Early Childhood Professional Development (PD): Differential Associations of PD and Self-Reported Beliefs and Practices.  Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 42(1). 53-75.