Peer-reviewed journals

Cristancho, J. C., Maldonado-Carreño, C., Bailey, D. H., Duncan, G., Escallón, E., & Norza, E. (2026). The effects of homicides on childcare classroom quality and child development. Educational Researcher, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X261482105 

Sharkey, P., Cristancho, J. C., & Semenza, D. (2024). Deer hunting season and firearm violence in US rural counties. JAMA Network Open, 7(8), e2427683. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.27683

Cristancho, J. C., Bailey, D., Duncan, G., Molano, A., Harker, A., & Norza, E. (2023). Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia. Child Development, 95(4), 1124-1141. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14056

Maldonado-Carreño, C., Yoshikawa, H., Escallón, E., Ponguta, L., Nieto, A., Kagan, S., Rey-Guerra, C., Cristancho, J. C., Mateus, A., Caro, A., Aragón, C., Rodríguez, A., & Motta, A. (2021). Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia. Child Development, 93(1), 254–268. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13665

Molano, A., Cristancho, J. C., & Harker, A. (2018). Effects of indirect exposure to homicide events on children's mental health: Evidence from urban settings in Colombia. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47(10), 2060–2072. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0876-8

Book chapters

Harker, A., Molano, A., Cristancho, J. C., & Gómez, S. (2018). Muros permeables en las escuelas: Desempeño educativo y seguridad. In Economía y seguridad en el posconflicto (pp. 121–152). Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Universidad de los Andes. https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9789587747157

Policy Reports

Cuartas, J., Restrepo-Sáenz, A. M., Lopera, D., Plata-Caviedes, T., Alfonso, C., Borbón, J., Cabra, H., Cardozo, F., Cristancho, J., Gómez-Echeverry, S., Grueso, H., Pizza, L., Rey-Guerra, C., & Rozo, J. (2026). Análisis de la situación del desarrollo en la primera infancia en Colombia y recomendaciones de política [Analysis of the state of early childhood development in Colombia and policy recommendations]. CIMIENTOS Collective. Documentos CEDE No. 51, Universidad de los Andes.

Harker, A., Molano, A., Cristancho, J. C., & Gómez, S. (2018). Aproximaciones ecológicas al clima escolar en Bogotá: Perfiles de riesgo, asociaciones con desempeño escolar y entornos escolares. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá.

Cristancho, J. C., Guo, S., McCoy, D. C., & Bailey, D. H. (2026). A meta-analysis of the effects of objective measures of exposure to community violence on child outcomes (Revise and Resubmit at Developmental Psychology).

Whitaker, A., Watts, T., Lipsey, M., Kelly, C., Cristancho, J. C., Jenkins, J., Bailey, D. H., & Duncan, G. (2025). A systematic review of research designs used to evaluate state and locally funded pre-K programs (EdWorking paper available here).

Cristancho, J. C., Li, M. & Penner, A. (2025). Greenspace at a glance: Assessing the causal effect of classroom views on elementary student outcomes (Preliminary results available).

Cristancho, J. C., Ainsworth, N., & Jenkins, J. (2025). California’s transitional kindergarten expansion and the local childcare market (Preliminary results available).