Vanessa R. Wight’s Publications

Senior Research Associate, Demography
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NCCP Publications

• Addy, Sophia; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2012. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010: Children Under Age 18. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Addy, Sophia; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2012. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010: Children Ages 12 through 17. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Addy, Sophia; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2012. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010: Children Ages 6 through 11. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Addy, Sophia; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2012. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010: Children Under Age 6. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Addy, Sophia; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2012. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2010: Children Under Age 3. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Aratani, Yumiko; Chau, Michelle; Wight, Vanessa R.; Addy, Sophia. 2011. Rent Burden, Housing Subsidies and the Well-being of Children and Youth. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Aratani, Yumiko; Wight, Vanessa R.; Cooper, Janice L.. 2011. Racial Gaps in Early Childhood: Socio-emotional Health, Developmental, and Educational Outcomes Among African-American Boys. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Thampi, Kalyani; Chau, Michelle. 2011. Poor Children by Parents’ Nativity: What Do We Know?. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle; Aratani, Yumiko. 2011. Who are America’s Poor Children?: The Official Story. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle; Aratani, Yumiko; Schwarz, Susan Wile; Thampi, Kalyani. 2010. A Profile of Disconnected Young Adults in 2010. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Chau, Michelle; Thampi, Kalyani; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2010. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009: Children Under Age 3. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Chau, Michelle; Thampi, Kalyani; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2010. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009: Children Under Age 6. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Chau, Michelle; Thampi, Kalyani; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2010. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009: Children Aged 6 through 11. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Chau, Michelle; Thampi, Kalyani; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2010. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009: Children Aged 12 through 17. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Chau, Michelle; Thampi, Kalyani; Wight, Vanessa R.. 2010. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009: Children Under Age 18. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Thampi, Kalyani. 2010. Basic Facts About Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States, 2008. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Thampi, Kalyani; Briggs, Jodie. 2010. Who Are America’s Poor Children?: Examining Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Skinner, Curtis; Wight, Vanessa R.; Aratani, Yumiko; Cooper, Janice L.; Thampi, Kalyani. 2010. English Language Proficiency, Family Economic Security, and Child Development. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle; Aratani, Yumiko. 2010. Who are America’s Poor Children?: The Official Story. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle. 2009. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008: Children Under Age 18. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle. 2009. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008: Children Under Age 3. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle. 2009. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008: Children Under Age 6. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle. 2009. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008: Children Aged 6-11. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
• Wight, Vanessa R.; Chau, Michelle. 2009. Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2008: Children Aged 12-17. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Other Publications

• Cabrera, Natasha, Jay Fagan, Vanessa R. Wight, and Schadler Cornelia. Forthcoming. “The Influence of Mother, Father, and Child Risk on Parenting and Children’s Cognitive and Social Behaviors.” Child Development.
• Wight, Vanessa, Michelle Chau, Kalyani Thampi and Yumiko Aratani. 2010. “Examining the Landscape of Child Poverty in the U.S. Today.” Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care 40(10):263–266.
• LaTaillade, Jaslean, Sandra L. Hofferth, and Vanessa R. Wight. 2010. “Consequences of Fatherhood for Young Men’s Relationships.” Research in Human Development 7(2): 103–122.
• Bianchi, Suzanne M. and Vanessa R. Wight. 2010 “The Long Reach of the Job: Employment and Time for Family Life.” In Workplace Flexibility: Realigning Twentieth-Century Jobs to Twentieth-Century Workers, edited by Barbara Schneider. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Wight, Vanessa R., Joe Price, Suzanne M. Bianchi, and Bijou R. Hunt. 2009. “The Time Use of Teenagers.” Social Science Research 38(4): 792–809.
• Wight, Vanessa R., Sara B. Raley, and Suzanne M. Bianchi. 2008. “Time for Children, One’s Spouse, and Oneself among Parents Who Work Nonstandard Hours” Social Forces 87(1): 243-271.