Peer-reviewed publications

  • Weston, Gillian, Afshin Zilanawala, Elizabeth Webb, Livia Carvalho, and Anne McMunn. (2024). “Work hours, weekend working, nonstandard work schedules and poor sleep: findings from a UK population-based study.” Accepted, BMC Public Health.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin and Anne McMunn. (2022). “Making it work: Fathers’ nonstandard work schedules and parenting activities.” Journal of Marriage and Family. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12853.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin and Anne McMunn. (2022). “Nonstandard work schedules in the UK: What are the implications for parental mental health and relationship happiness?” Community, Work & Family. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2022.2077173.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin. (2021). “Educational gradients in nonstandard work schedules among mothers and fathers in the UK.” Demographic Research 44:609-626.

  • Kelly, Yvonne, Afshin Zilanawala, Clare Tanton, Ruth Lewis, and Catherine H. Mercer. (2019). “Partnered intimate activities in early adolescence in the UK—findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.” Journal of Adolescent Health 65:397-404.
    * Covered online by Metro News, Times of Malta, The Independent, The Daily Mail

  • Weston, Gill, Afshin Zilanawala, Elizabeth Webb, Livia Carvalho, and Anne McMunn. (2019). “Long work hours, weekend working and depressive symptoms in men and women: Findings from a UK population-based study.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73:465-474.
    * Covered online by The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Mail, itv News

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Laia Bécares, and Aprile D. Benner. (2019). “Race/ethnic inequalities in early adolescent development in the United Kingdom and United States.” Demographic Research 40:121-154.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Amanda Sacker, and Yvonne Kelly. (2019). “Internalising and externalising behaviour profiles across childhood: The consequences of changes in the family environment.” Social Science & Medicine 226:207-216.

  • Kelly, Yvonne, Afshin Zilanawala, Cara Booker, and Amanda Sacker. (2018). “Social media use and adolescent mental health: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.” EClinicalMedicine 6:59-68.
    * Covered online by The Guardian, CNN, BBC, Independent, Times Educational Supplement, iNews, Mirror, Today Online, Telegraph

  • Nazroo, James, Afshin Zilanawala, Meichu Chen, Laia Bécares, Pamela Davis-Kean, James S. Jackson, Yvonne Kelly, Lidia Panico, and Amanda Sacker. (2018). “Socioemotional wellbeing of mixed race/ethnicity children in the UK and US: Patterns and mechanisms.” Social Science & Medicine-Population Health 5:147-159.

  • Kelly, Yvonne, Afshin Zilanawala, Amanda Sacker, Robert Hiatt, and Russell Viner. (2017). “Early puberty in 11 year old girls: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.” Archives of Disease in Childhood 102:232-237.
    * Covered online by Huffington Post and The Guardian

  • Zilanawala, Afshin. (2017). “Maternal nonstandard employment and breastfeeding behaviors.” Maternal and Child Health Journal 21:1308-1317.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Jessica Abell, Steven Bell, Elizabeth Webb, and Rebecca Lacey. (2017). “Parental nonstandard work schedules during infancy and children’s BMI trajectories.” Demographic Research 37:709-726.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Margary Martin, Pedro Noguera, and Ronald B. Mincy. (2017). “Math achievement trajectories among Black male students in the elementary and middle school years.” Educational Studies 54:143-164.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Amanda Sacker, and Yvonne Kelly. (2017). “Longitudinal latent cognitive profiles and psychosocial wellbeing in early adolescence.” Journal of Adolescent Health 61:493-500.

  • Lacey, Rebecca E., Afshin Zilanawala, Elizabeth Webb, Jessica Abell, and Steven Bell. (2016). “Parental absence in early childhood and onset of smoking and alcohol consumption before adolescence.” Archives of Disease in Childhood 103:691-694.
    * Covered online by Huffington Post, The Guardian, and CNN

  • Zilanawala, Afshin. (2016). “Women’s time poverty and family structure: Differences by parenthood and employment.” Journal of Family Issues 37:369-392.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Yvonne Kelly, and Amanda Sacker. (2016). “Ethnic differences in longitudinal latent verbal profiles in the Millennium Cohort Study.” European Journal of Public Health 26:1011-1016.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Amanda Sacker, and Yvonne Kelly. (2016). “Mixed ethnicity and behavioural problems in the Millennium Cohort Study.” Archives of Disease in Childhood 103:61-64.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Amanda Sacker, James Nazroo, and Yvonne Kelly. (2015). “Ethnic differences in children's socioemotional difficulties: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study.” Social Science and Medicine 134:95-106.

  • Garfinkel, Irwin, and Afshin Zilanawala. (2015). “Fragile families in the American welfare state.” Children and Youth Services Review 55:210-221.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, Pamela Davis-Kean, James Nazroo, Amanda Sacker, Sharon Simonton, and Yvonne Kelly. (2015). “Race/Ethnic Disparities in early childhood BMI, obesity and overweight in the United Kingdom and United States.” International Journal of Obesity 39:520-529.

  • Zilanawala, Afshin, and Natasha V. Pilkauskas. (2012). “Material hardship and child socioemotional behaviors: Differences by types of hardship, timing, and duration.” Children and Youth Services Review 34:814-825.

Work Under Review and in Progress

  • Mincy, Ronald B., Hillard Pouncy, Afshin Zilanawala, and Xin Chen. “Practice makes resilience: Measuring consequences of visiting parent unions at birth on long-term visitation.”

  • Schenck-Fontaine, Anika, Afshin Zilanawala, and Almudena Sevilla. “Supplemental nutrition assistance program and parental time investments in children.”

  • Sironi, Maria, Jenny Chanfreau, Maria Palma, and Afshin Zilanawala. “Young adults’ relationship happiness in England during COVID.”

  • Zilanawala, Afshin and Kelly D. Chandler. “Cumulative risk of maternal nonstandard work schedules on children’s early cognitive and behavioral outcomes.”

  • Zilanawala, Afshin and Anika Schenck-Fontaine. “Mothers’ nonstandard work schedules, economic hardship, and children’s development.”