Faculty Directory
Rebekah Levine Coley
Director, Center for Child and 成人快播 Policy
Professor
Florencia and Marc Gabelli 成人快播 Faculty Fellow
Rebekah Levine Coley
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion 239A听
Telephone: 617-552-6018
Email: coleyre@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
- Postdoctoral Training, University of Chicago
- Management Development Program, Harvard University
Courses
Education and Social Issues and Policy
Research Interests
Professor Coley's research focuses on delineating, evaluating, and counteracting economic, social, and racial inequities in mental and behavioral health and educational and economic attainment.听 Her research employs quantitative, qualitative, and evaluation methodologies to delineate key environmental forces driving these arenas of wellbeing, and to assess and inform social and educational policies and practices which seek to disrupt the transmission of inequities听 and improve opportunities for children, families, and communities.听
Expertise
- Cognitive and Social Development
- Health and Well Being
- Social & Emotional Development
Professor Coley is seeking new doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars to participate in a multi-methods project evaluating the effects of housing and community redevelopment on children's and adults' health (mental, behavioral, and physical) and educational success. Candidates with native fluency in Spanish or Cantonese and experience working in minoritized and underserved communities are particularly welcomed.
Department
Profile
Rebekah Levine Coley, Ph.D. is Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology and Director of the Center for Child and 成人快播 Policy at 成人快播 College. She received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan and postdoctoral training in Demography and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Professor Coley鈥檚 expertise lies in assessing and counteracting economic, social, and racial inequities in mental and behavioral health and educational and economic attainment. Her research employs quantitative, qualitative, and evaluation methodologies to assess and inform social and educational policies and practices at the federal, state, and local level which seek to disrupt the transmission of inequities to children, families, and communities. Professor Coley鈥檚 research has been published in dozens of leading journals and edited volumes, and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Australian Research Council, and numerous private foundations. She is the founding Editor of the Child Evidence Brief series published by the Society for Research in Child Development which seeks to translate developmental science to federal and state policy makers, and has held leadership positions in the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Research on Adolescence, the Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium, and the University-based Child and 成人快播 Policy Consortium. Her research excellence has been recognized through receipt of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, a Social Policy Award from the Society for Research in Adolescence, and the inaugural Mavis Hetherington Award in Applied Developmental Science from the American Psychological Association.
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Investigator, Centre for Children and Families Over the Lifecourse, University of Queensland, Australia
Current Research Grants
2024-2026听Supporting Marginalized Youths' Educational Success: A Mixed-Methods Natural Experiment.听(Brady Education Foundation). Coley, Principal Investigator. $368,032. Multi-methods natural experiment to assess how public housing and community redevelopment bolster minoritized and economically disadvantaged children鈥檚 educational opportunities and success using a strengths-based perspective.听
2021-2026听Targeting Health Disparities through Housing Redevelopment: A Natural Experiment of Housing听听Quality,听Stability,听and Economic听Integration. (NIH/NIMHD 1R01MD015729). Coley & Teixeira, Principal Investigators.听$3,030,584. Diversity Supplement (with Lacee Satcher). $250,000. Multi-method natural experiment of public housing redevelopment to address whether improving听housing quality, limiting external displacement, and creating mixed-income communities improves听physical, mental,听and听behavioral听health.
2021-2025听听成人快播 College Institute of Early Childhood Policy听(Buffett Early Childhood fund). Coley, Principal Investigator.听 $322,707. Cross-disciplinary institute to increase training, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration in the realm of early childhood development, education, and policy.
2021-2023听Strengths, Assets, and Receipt of Social Services as Protective Factors in the Relationship between Racial Bias and Maternal and Child Health and Developmental Outcomes.听(Annie E Casey Foundation). Sims, Principal Investigator. $175,000. Multi-methods, participatory study to assess how environmental racial bias is linked with maternal and child mental, behavioral, and physical health among Black families.
2021-2023听Impact Analysis of Flavor Restrictions and Tobacco 21 Policies on Youth Tobacco Use. (NIH/NCI R21CA268199). Hawkins, Principal Investigator. $430,375. Examine the impact of state flavor restrictions and state and federal age 21 tobacco restriction policies on disparities in tobacco use among 14-24 year-old youth.
2023-2025听听Evaluating Rental Relief During the COVID-19 Pandemic听(NIH R21HD111746). Fusaro,听Principal Investigator. $430,375. Create, make publicly available, and analyze a dataset听 documenting the nature and timing of Emergency Rental Assistance Program implementation policy choices and their effects on eviction, material hardship, and mental health.
2023-2025听听Early Childhood Policy and Leadership Fellowship Program听(Bezos 成人快播 Foundation). Coley, Principal Investigator. $177,475. Funds provision of fellowships to underrepresented graduate students participating in the Early Childhood Policy and Leadership graduate certificate program.
2022-2026听The MetroWest Evidence-based Trauma-Informed Referral & Treatment Initiative for Children听(METRIC) (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration听SM84966). Franks, Principal Investigator.听$1,599,070. Collaborative initiative to expand and evaluate trauma-focused, evidence-based mental health services for children aged 2 to 18 and their families.
2021-2027听ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course听(Australian Research Council CE200100025). Baxter, Principal Investigator. $32,500,000AU.听 Collaborative research centre seeking to听use evidence-based research to develop new knowledge, technology and practices to benefit people living in disadvantage.
Recent Publications
- Carey, N., Coley, R. L., Hawkins, S. S., & Baum, C. F. (2024).听Emerging adult mental health during COVID: Exploring relationships between discrete and cumulative individual and contextual stressors and well-being.听Journal of Adolescent Health.听
- Coley, R. L., Carey, N., Hwang, D., Spielvogel, B., & Henry, D. (2024). Racial inequities听educationalopportunity: Variation across socioeconomic strata.听Race and Social Problems.听
- Coley, R. L., Carey, N., Kruzik, C., Hawkins, S. S., & Baum, K. (2024).听Recreational cannabis legalization, retail sales, and adolescent substance use through 2021.听JAMA Pediatrics.听doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0555
- Hawkins, S. S., Carey, N., Coley, R. L., Baum, C. F. (2024).听Associations between tobacco 21 and state flavor restrictions with young adult tobacco use.听Tobacco Control, 1-8.听
- Hwang, D. & Coley, R. L. (2024).听Examining how school resources contribute to income achievement disparities across race and ethnicity.听Urban Education, 1-38.听DOI: 10.1177/00420859241244770
- Kruzik, C., Coley, R. L., Votruba-Drzal, E., Spielvogel, B., Henry, D. & Betancur, L. (2024). The early emergence of SES achievement gaps: Disparities across race, ethnicity, and immigrant status.听Race and Social Problems,听16, 116鈥�132.听DOI:听
- Lanteri, L. & Coley, R. L. (2024).听School听connectedness and social exclusion: Can school contexts听ameliorate parental depression risks for听early adolescent behavior problems?听Children and Youth Services Review,听164, 107848.听
- Miller, P., Coley, R. L., Blatt, L. R., Spielvogel, B., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2024).听Using fixed-effects analyses to examine how neighborhood structural, process, and physical characteristics predict children鈥檚 cognitive skills in a national cohort of elementary school students.听Journal of Educational Psychology.听
- Teixeira, S.,听Spielvogel, B., Hwang, D., Lown, J., & Coley, R. L. (2024).听Short- and long-term effects of HOPE VI redevelopment on neighborhood housing conditions.听Housing Studies.听听DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2423820.
- Coley, R. L., Carey, N., Baum, C. F., Hawkins, S. S. (2023).听COVID-19 vaccinations and mental health among U.S. adults: Individual and spillover effects.听Social Science and Medicine,听329, 116027.听
- Coley, R. L., Spielvogel, B., Hwang, D., Lown, J., & Teixeira, S. (2023).听Did HOPE VI move communities to opportunity? How public housing redevelopment affected neighborhood poverty, racial composition, and resources 1990-2016.听Housing Policy Debate,听4, 909-940.听
- Fusaro, V., Coley, R. L., & Carey, N. (2023).听Shelter from the storm: State eviction moratoria, implementation context, & eviction filings during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.听Housing Policy Debate.听
- van Leer, K. F. & Coley, R. L. (2023).听Early childhood education decision-making among Latinx foreign-born parents in the United States: A culturally-informed model of decision-making.听Children and Youth Services Review, 151.听
- Carey, N. & Coley, R. L. (2022). Prevalence of adolescent handgun carriage: 2002 2019.听Pediatrics,听149(5):e2021054472.听
- Coley, R. L. & Baum, C. (2022). Trends in mental health symptoms, service use, and unmet need for services among US adults through the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic.听Translational Behavioral Medicine, 12, 273-283.听
- Coley, R. L., Carey, N., Baum, C. F., & Hawkins, S. S. (2022). COVID-19 related stressors and mental health disorders among US adults.听Public Health Reports,听137,听1217鈥�1226.听
- Hawkins, S., Kruzik, C., O鈥橞rien, M., & Coley, R. L. (2022). Flavored tobacco product restrictions in Massachusetts associated with reductions in adolescent cigarette and e-cigarette use.听Tobacco Control, 31, 576-579. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056159
- Sims, J. & Coley, R. L. (2022). Examining economic risks in adolescents鈥� families, neighborhoods, and schools: Implications for mental and behavioral health in early adulthood.听Journal of Adolescent Health,听70, 774-780.听doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.11.020.
Select Honors & Leadership Positions
Mavis Hetherington Award for Excellence in Applied Developmental Science, American Psychological Association听
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award Recipient
Social Policy Award, Society for Research in Adolescence听
Editor,
Co-Chair, Science and Social Policy Committee, Society for Research in Child Development
Steering Committee Member, University-Based Child and 成人快播 Policy Consortium
Steering Committee Member, Child Care and Early Education Policy Research Consortium
Consulting Editor, Child Development
Advisory Board Member, Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy