Education Program

Ms. Davis is currently the data manager for the Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation (MHFE), a large-scale mixed-methods experimental evaluation of home visiting program for teenage parents.  Her research with MHFE has examined resilient functioning in young mothers and fathers, as well as contextual influences on parent-child relationships, repeat birth trajectories and child abuse and neglect.  She previously served as a research assistant to Professor Margie E. Lachman in the Lifespan Developmental Psychology laboratory at Brandeis University, and was responsible for the administration of cognitive assessments on a study investigating memory, control beliefs and aging.  Ms. Davis is currently a member of and active participant in the biannual conferences for the Society for Research on Child Development and the Society for Research in Adolescence. 

PUBLICATIONS

Easterbrooks, M. A., & Davis, C. R.  (2007).  Fathering.  In R. New and M. Cochran (Eds.), Early Childhood Education: An International Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

Easterbrooks, M. A., Barrett, L. R., Brady, A. E., & Davis, C. R. (2007).   Complexities in research on fathering:  Illustrations from the Tufts study of young fathers.  Applied Developmental Science, 11(4), 214-220.

Chaudhuri, J. H., Easterbrooks, M. A.., & Davis, C. R. (in press) The relation between emotional availability and parenting style:  Cultural and economic factors in a diverse sample of young mothers.

Mistry, J. M., Jacobs, F., Davis, C. R., Goldberg, J., Easterbrooks, M.A., & Jimenez, I. (in preparation).  A Longitudinal study of reproductive trajectories among young mothers.