Rachel Dunifon
Cornell University
Rachel Dunifon, Ph.D.,an Associate Professor in Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell, has published studies that focus on the family and policy-based determinants of child well-being. She has examined the ways in which welfare reform influences child behavior and parenting behaviors, and the influence of state welfare policies on children.
Dunifon also has extensive experience using data from Children of the NSLY79. Her work with this data has examined how the amount of time children spend in various living arrangements (single-parenthood, cohabitation and marriage) influences their test scores and behavior problems. This work also examined the role of parenting behaviors in mediating the associations between family structure and child well-being. Consequently, she has constructed several of the family process measures to be used in the proposed analyses.
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