Rebekah Levine Coley

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Campion Hall
Room 239A

617.552.6018

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Michigan

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

The intersections of family, community, and social policy contexts and their influence on child/adolescent development.  Family structure and parenting; father involvement; family economic supports including welfare and work; youth health risk behaviors; childcare and early childhood education; and poverty.

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Academic Honors

Senior Fulbright Scholar Award, American-Australian Fulbright Commission

Senior Visiting Fellowship, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Social Policy Award, Society for Research in Adolescence

Research Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago

Current Research Grants

Child Care Resources in Low-Income Communities. (NICHD). Coley & Votruba-Drzal, Co-Principal Investigators. Assesses child care decisions and the implications of child care experiences for the health and well-being of low-income children and mothers using longitudinal survey, observational, and assessment data.

Bidirectional Links between Parenting Processes and Adolescent Risk Behaviors (NICHD). Coley, Principal Investigator.  Models transactional and bidirectional links between parenting processes and adolescent health risk behaviors (substance use and risky sexual behaviors), employing large, longitudinal data sets.

Distinguishing Between Family Structure and Family Instability on Child and Adolescent Well-Being in Low-Income Families (National Center for Marriage Research).

A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of parenting Policies (FHCSIA, Australian Government). Katz, Principal Investigator.  Cross-national comparative analysis of federal parenting policies.  Review of government documents and interviews with expert informants provide data to compare and contrast parenting policies across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Sweden.

Selected Publications

Bachman, H.J., Coley, R.L., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (in press).  Is maternal marriage beneficial for low-income adolescents?  Applied Developmental Science.

Votruba-Drzal, E., Coley, R.L., Carreno, C.M., Li-Grining, C.P., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (in press).  Child care and the socioemotional development of economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood.  Child Development.

Coley, R.L., Votruba-Drzal, E., & Schindler, H. (2009).  Fathers' and mothers' parenting predicting and responding to adolescent sexual risk behaviors.  Child Development, 80, 808-827.

Coley, R.L., Medeiros, B.L., & Schindler, H. (2008).  Using sibling differences to estimate effects of parenting on adolescent sexual risk behaviors.  Journal of Adolescent Health, 43, 133-140.

Coley, R.L., Votruba-Drzal, E., & Schindler, H. (2008).  Trajectories of parenting processes and adolescent substance use:  Reciprocal effects.  Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 613-635.

Coley, R.L., Bachman, H.J., Votruba-Drzal, E., Lohman, B., & Li-Grining, C.P. (2007).  Maternal welfare and employment experiences and adolescent well-being:  Do mothers' human capital characteristics matter?  Child and Youth Service Review, 29, 193-215.

Coley, R.L., Lohman, B.J., Votruba-Drzal, E., Pittman, L.D., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2007).  Maternal functioning, time and money:  The world of work and welfare, Children and Youth Services Review, 29, 721-741.

Coley, R.L., & Medeiros, B.L. (2007).  Reciprocal longitudinal relations between nonresident father involvement and adolescent delinquency.  Child Development, 78, 132-147.

Coley, Rl>l, Li-Grining, C. & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2006).  Low-income families' child care experiences:  Meeting the needs of children and families.  In N. Cabrera, R. Hutchins, & E. Peters (Eds.), From welfare to child care:  What happens to children when mothers exchange welfare for work (pp. 1490170).  Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Coley, R.L., Morris, J., Hernandez, D. (2004). Out-of-school care and problem behavior trajectories among low-income adolescents: Individual, family, and neighborhood characteristics as added risks. Child Development, 75, 639-657.

Votruba-Drzal, E., Coley, R. L., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2004). Child care and low-income children's development: Direct and moderated effects. Child Development, 75, 1-17.