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2024-2026ÌýSupporting Marginalized Youths' Educational Success: A Mixed-Methods Natural Experiment. (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’s educational opportunities and success using a strengths-based perspective. 

2021-2026ÌýTargeting Health Disparities through Housing Redevelopment: A Natural Experiment of Housing  Quality, Stability, and Economic Integration. (NIH/NIMHD 1R01MD015729). Coley & Teixeira, Principal Investigators. $3,030,584. Diversity Supplement (with Lacee Satcher). $250,000. Multi-method natural experiment of public housing redevelopment to address whether improving housing quality, limiting external displacement, and creating mixed-income communities improves physical, mental, and behavioral health.

2021-2025ÌýÌý°¬¿ÉÖ±²¥ College Institute of Early Childhood Policy (Buffett Early Childhood fund). Coley, Principal Investigator.  $322,707. Cross-disciplinary institute to increase training, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration in the realm of early childhood development, education, and policy.

2021-2023ÌýStrengths, Assets, and Receipt of Social Services as Protective Factors in the Relationship between Racial Bias and Maternal and Child Health and Developmental Outcomes. (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.

2021-2023ÌýImpact 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.

2023-2025ÌýÌýEvaluating Rental Relief During the COVID-19 Pandemic (NIH R21HD111746). Fusaro, Principal Investigator. $430,375. Create, make publicly available, and analyze a dataset  documenting the nature and timing of Emergency Rental Assistance Program implementation policy choices and their effects on eviction, material hardship, and mental health.

2023-2025ÌýÌýEarly Childhood Policy and Leadership Fellowship Program (Bezos Family 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.

2022-2026ÌýThe MetroWest Evidence-based Trauma-Informed Referral & Treatment Initiative for Children (METRIC) (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SM84966). Franks, Principal Investigator. $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.

2021-2027ÌýARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course (Australian Research Council CE200100025). Baxter, Principal Investigator. $32,500,000AU.  Collaborative research centre seeking to use evidence-based research to develop new knowledge, technology and practices to benefit people living in disadvantage.

• Coley, R. L., McCoy, D., Hatch, S. (2025). How poverty shapes children’s structural and social environments: An integrative conceptual framework and review. American Psychologist. 
• Coley, R. L., Leer, J., & Lanteri, L. (2025). Trends in mental and behavioral health risks in adolescents: 1999–2021. Pediatrics, 155 (4), e2024068774. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2024-068774 
• Fusaro, V., Collier, K. M., Baidoo, C., & Coley, R. L. (2025). Rental arrears and perceived risk of eviction among U.S. renter households by household composition, race, and ethnicity 2020-2024. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 11, 23780231241309788. 
• Hawkins, S. S., Coley, R. L., Lanteri, L., & Baum, C. F. (2025). How adolescent tobacco use has responded to state tobacco 21 laws and flavor restrictions. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 51(3), 360–371. https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990.2024.2444567 
• Lanteri, L., Miller, P., Votruba-Drzal, E., & Coley, R. L. (2025). Neighborhood resources and stressors associated with parental inputs for children’s learning and development. American Journal of Community Psychology, 75, 117–129. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12770 
• Wang, Y., Lo, B. K., Park, I., Bauer, K. W., Davison, K. K., Haines, J., & Coley, R. L. (2025). Racial and ethnic disparities in fathers’ food parenting practices and children’s diets. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.70001 
• Carey, N., Coley, R. L., Hawkins, S. S., & Baum, C. F. (2024). Emerging adult mental health during COVID: Exploring relationships between discrete and cumulative individual and contextual stressors and well-being. Journal of Adolescent Health, 71, 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.01.031 
• Coley, R. L., Carey, N., Hwang, D., Spielvogel, B., & Henry, D. (2024). Racial inequities in educational opportunity: Variation across socioeconomic strata. Race and Social Problems, 16, 414-432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-024-09415-z 
• Coley, R. L., Carey, N., Kruzik, C., Hawkins, S. S., & Baum, K. (2024). Recreational cannabis legalization, retail sales, and adolescent substance use through 2021. JAMA Pediatrics, 178(6), 622-625. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0555 
• Hwang, D. & Coley, R. L. (2024). Examining how school resources contribute to income achievement disparities across race and ethnicity. Urban Education, 1-38. DOI: 10.1177/00420859241244770

Mavis Hetherington Award for Excellence in Applied Developmental Science, American Psychological Association 

Fulbright Senior Scholar Award Recipient

Social Policy Award, Society for Research in Adolescence 

Editor,

Co-Chair, Science and Social Policy Committee, Society for Research in Child Development

Steering Committee Member, University-Based Child and Family 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