Micere Keels
My research examines how the quality of low-income children’s developmental environments is associated with their developmental outcomes.
Family context: This work examines how poverty, ethnicity, and acculturation are associated with children’s early developmental environments.
Neighborhood research: This work focuses on low-income children participating in residential mobility programs; interview data is used to illuminate children’s experiences, perception, and understanding of their neighborhood, peer, and school environments. Additional work with administrative data examines the relationship between residential gentrification and changes in the quality of neighborhood public schools.
School research: This work examines the relationship between school quality and children’s socioeconomic status. Additional work examines the relationship between the likelihood of school mobility and children’s socioeconomic status.
Contact Information
micere at uchicago.edu
Selected Publications
Keels, M. (Forthcoming) Ethnic Group Differences in Early Head Start Parents’ Parenting Beliefs and Practices and the Links to Children’s Early Cognitive Outcomes. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Keels, M. 2009. Neighborhood Effects Examined Through the Lens of Residential Mobility Programs. American Journal of Community Psychology. 42(3-4):235-250.
DeLuca, S., G. Duncan, M. Keels, & R. Mendenhall. 2009. Gautreaux Mothers and Their Children: An Update. Housing Policy Debate. 20(2).
Keels, M. 2008. Residential Attainment of Now-Adult Gautreaux Children: Do They Gain, Hold, or Lose Ground in Neighborhood Ethnic and Economic Segregation. Housing Studies. 23(4), pp. 541 - 564.
Keels, M. 2008. Second-Generation Effects of Chicago’s Gautreaux Residential Mobility Program on Children’s Participation in Crime. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 18(2), pp. 305-352.
Keels, M., G. Duncan, R. Mendenhall, S. Deluca, & J. Rosenbaum. 2005. Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide a Permanent Escape from Neighborhood Segregation, Crime, and Poverty? Demography, 42, pp. 51-73.
Useful links
Foundation for Child Development
http://www.fcd-us.org/
Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org/
Society for research in Child Development
http://www.srcd.org/
