Project Team
Rachel Dunifon
Associate Professor
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
College of Human Ecology
249 MVR Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
(607) 255-6535
e-mail: red26@cornell.edu
Rachel received her PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University in 1999. She joined Cornell in 2001, after completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. Rachel’s research focuses on the well-being of children, and how public policies and family living arrangements influence child well-being. She has a particular interest in the role of parenting behaviors in accounting for the associations between policies, family structure, and child well-being. In one recent article, she examined whether parental behaviors account for the influence of single-parenthood and cohabitation on children. In another, she tested whether mothers’ movement from welfare to work influences parenting. Dr. Dunifon is also examining how welfare reform has affected parental monitoring of children, warmth toward children, and the provision of cognitively stimulating activities for children; and how the neighborhoods in which children live influence their parents’ behaviors.
Web site: http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?netid=red26&facs=1cfm
Kimberly Kopko
Extension Associate
Department of Policy Analysis and Management
College of Human Ecology
250 MVR Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
(607) 254-6517
e-mail: kak33@cornell.edu
Biographical Statement:
Kimberly Kopko received her Ph.D. in Child Development from the Department of Human Development at Cornell University in May 2005 and joined the Department of Policy Analysis & Management in 2007 after spending a year as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ithaca College . Her research and extension interests examine parenting and child development outcomes. Specific research and extension interests include: developmental outcomes of affluent youth; socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development; developmental issues related to divorce and custody; the impact of children's extracurricular activity involvement on families; and parenting and adolescent development.
Web site: http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=kak33