KRISTIN ANDERSON MOORE

Senior Scholar & Program Area Director 

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan

Dr. Moore is a social psychologist who studies trends in child and family well-being, positive development, the determinants and consequences of early sexual activity and parenthood, fatherhood, the effects of family structure and social change on children, and the effects of public policies and poverty on children. She heads the Youth Development research area, where she is working to expand information on programs that work, implementation approaches that are effective, and rigorous approaches to evaluation, as well as working to share knowledge with practitioners, funders, journalists, and policy makers.

Dr. Moore has helped develop constructs and measures for numerous surveys, including the ECLS-Kindergarten and Birth Cohorts, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort, the National Survey of Children, the National Survey of Children’s Health, and the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation survey.  For ten years she was a principal investigator on the Family and Child Well-being Research Network established by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to examine factors that enhance the development and well-being of children.  Dr. Moore was a founding member of the Task Force on Effective Programs and Research at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, and a member of the NICHD Advisory Council.  Dr. Moore headed Child Trends from 1982 to 2006, when she chose to return to full-time research.

In 1999, Dr. Moore was awarded the Foundation for Child Development's Centennial Award for her achievements on behalf of children.  She also was designated the 2002 Society for Adolescent Medicine Visiting Scholar and received the 2005 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution Award from the Section on Children and Youth.  In 2009, the American Sociological Association’s Sociological Practice & Public Sociology section awarded Dr. Moore the William Foote Whyte Award, which honors sociologists who have contributed their sociological insights to improve the world and inform the public.  In 2010, she was selected as Researcher of the Year by the Healthy Teen Network.

Dr. Moore has published more than 100 journal articles and books, as well as numerous research briefs, and brings 35 years of experience in designing, implementing and conducting analyses and evaluations on families and children.
 

AREAS OF SUBSTANTIVE EXPERIENCE	AREAS OF METHODOLOGICAL EXPERTISE
Adolescent Development	Applied Research
Adolescent Sexual Behavior	Literature Review
Adolescent Peer and Romantic Relationships	Measures Development
Child Mental Health	Multivariate Analysis
Child Well-Being and Positive Development	Policy Analysis
Children in Poverty	Program Evaluation
Co-Parenting	Psychometric Analysis
Contraceptive Use	Regression Analysis
Family Economic Well-Being	Research Methods
Family Strengths	Structural Equation Modeling
Fatherhood	Survey Research Methods
Marriage and Family
Parental Involvement in Schooling
Parenting Behavior
Parenting Education
Parental Depression
Peer Interactions and Relationships
Resilience
School Engagement
Subling Relationships
Social and Emotional Development
Social Isolation/Social Support
Poverty and Low Income
Transition to Adulthood
Youth Development
Youth Positive Behaviors
Youth Risk Behaviors