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Rebecca Ryan is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences and health professions, focusing extensively on topics related to childhood development, family dynamics, and social issues.

The main fields of study encompassing their work include Social Sciences and Health Professions. More specifically, their research addresses subfields such as General Health Professions, Education, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, and Clinical Psychology.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics, including:

  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Rebecca Ryan has published research extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues where their work appears are:

  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Child Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent papers include:

  • "Parenting Practices and Socioeconomic Gaps in Childhood Outcomes," 2020, The Future of Children
  • "Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism," 2021, Psychological Science
  • "Understanding Patterns of Food Insecurity and Family Well-Being Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Daily Surveys," 2021, Child Development
  • "Differences in Parents' Attitudes Toward Spanking Across Socioeconomic Status and Region, 1986-2016," 2021, Social Indicators Research
  • "Poverty, Material Hardship, and Children's Outcomes: A Nuanced Understanding of Material Hardship in Childhood," 2022, Children

Rebecca Ryan frequently collaborates with several co-authors. The most frequent collaborators are:

  • Caitlin T. Hines
  • Samantha Steimle
  • Ariel Kalil
  • Anna Gassman-Pines
  • Ivan A. Hernandez

Best Publications

  • Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews: reporting guideline.

    Mhairi Campbell;Joanne E McKenzie;Amanda Sowden;Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

  • Diverging Destinies: Maternal Education and the Developmental Gradient in Time With Children

    Ariel Kalil;Rebecca Ryan;Michael Corey

  • Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews.

    Rebecca Ryan;Nancy Santesso;Dianne Lowe;Sophie Hill

  • Consumer‐providers of care for adult clients of statutory mental health services

    Veronica Jean Pitt;Dianne B Lowe;Sophie Hill;Megan J Prictor

  • Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination

    Jessica Kaufman;Rebecca Ryan;Louisa Walsh;Dell Horey

  • Audio-visual presentation of information for informed consent for participation in clinical trials

    Anneliese Synnot;Rebecca Ryan;Megan Prictor;Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh

  • Defining the criteria for including studies and how they will be grouped for the synthesis

    Joanne E McKenzie;Sue E Brennan;Rebecca E Ryan;Hilary J Thomson

  • Interventions before consultations for helping patients address their information needs.

    Paul Richard Kinnersley;Adrian G. Edwards;Kerenza Hood;Naomi Louise Cadbury

  • When Fathers' Supportiveness Matters Most: Maternal and Paternal Parenting and Children's School Readiness

    Anne Martin;Rebecca M. Ryan;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • The joint influence of mother and father parenting on child cognitive outcomes at age 5

    Anne Martin;Rebecca M. Ryan;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Is One Good Parent Good Enough? Patterns of Mother and Father Parenting and Child Cognitive Outcomes at 24 and 36 Months

    Rebecca M. Ryan;Anne Martin;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Childhood Poverty: Implications for School Readiness and Early Childhood Education

    Rebecca M. Ryan;Rebecca C. Fauth;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Low-Income, Nonresident Father Involvement With Their Toddlers: Variation by Fathers' Race and Ethnicity

    Natasha J. Cabrera;Rebecca M. Ryan;Stephanie J. Mitchell;Jacqueline D. Shannon

  • Dose-related neuroprotective effects of chronic nicotine in 6-hydroxydopamine treated rats, and loss of neuroprotection in α4 nicotinic receptor subunit knockout mice

    Rebecca E Ryan;Shelley A Ross;John Drago;Richard E Loiacono

  • Interventions before consultations to help patients address their information needs by encouraging question asking : systematic review

    Paul Richard Kinnersley;Adrian G. Edwards;Kerenza Hood;Rebecca Ryan

  • Mothers' Economic Conditions and Sources of Support in Fragile Families

    Ariel Kalil;Rebecca M. Ryan

  • Low-Income Fathers' Involvement in Their Toddlers' Lives: Biological Fathers from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Study

    Natasha J. Cabrera;Rebecca M. Ryan;Jacqueline D. Shannon;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Time Investments in Children across Family Structures

    Ariel Kalil;Rebecca Ryan;Elise Chor

  • Age at Menarche, Depression, and Antisocial Behavior in Adulthood

    Jane Mendle;Rebecca M. Ryan;Kirsten M. P. McKone

  • Child Care Quality in Different State Policy Contexts.

    Elizabeth Rigby;Rebecca M. Ryan;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • Longitudinal Patterns of Nonresident Fathers’ Involvement: The Role of Resources and Relations

    Rebecca M. Ryan;Ariel Kalil;Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
Ariel Kalil
Ariel Kalil University of Chicago
Abigail A. Marsh
Abigail A. Marsh Georgetown University
Natasha J. Cabrera
Natasha J. Cabrera University of Maryland, College Park
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda New York University
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Helen Raikes
Helen Raikes University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Sandra L. Calvert
Sandra L. Calvert Georgetown University

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