Rachel Kimbro
Biographic Data
| ID | 197116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Kimbro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimbro |
| SIGNATURE | KIMBRO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6052-3864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 429 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Keys to the Future: How Gender and Sexuality Jointly Shape Parental Financial Support for Home Ownership
Homeownership is a key marker of economic stability, yet rising housing costs have made it increasingly difficult for young adults to purchase homes. Parental financial transfers can help offset these barriers, but such support is unevenly distributed across social groups. Although past research has documented gender disparities in intergenerational transfers, little is known about how these patterns extend to sexual minority individuals or how g…
If I got it, she got it: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering
ObjectiveThis study advances contemporary theories of motherhood, mothering, and foodwork within the context of poverty by focusing on the ways that low-income Black mothers engage interdependent culturally distinct mothering strategies in light of a porous social safety net.BackgroundContemporary standards for good parenting are increasingly resource-based.As such, the intricate and tactical ways that low-income Black mothers manage to make food…
Parental Work Characteristics and Children’s Insufficient Sleep
Emergency Food Support Preference and Usage During Covid-19: A Neighborhood Study of Low-Income Black Mothers’ Use of School-Based Food Distribution and P-EBT
COVID-19 disrupted families’ food supply. Based on in-depth interviews with 45 Black low-income mothers of young children in an underserved Houston, Texas, neighborhood from April 2020 to June 2021, we compared two aid programs—Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer cash assistance and in-kind food distributions. We found that mothers preferred cash assistance for boosting existing food strategies, while food distributions presented new challenges…
Community social environments and cigarette smoking
Cigarette smoking remains a primary contributor to health disparities in the United States, and significant evidence suggests that smoking behavior is socially influenced. Though residential neighborhoods are important for health disparities, recent evidence suggests that people spend the majority of their waking time away from the residential neighborhood. We advance research on neighborhoods and smoking by using individual, neighborhood, and ac…
Neighborhoods matter; but for whom? Heterogeneity of neighborhood disadvantage on child obesity by sex
The Role of Prosocial Behavior in Promoting Physical Activity, as an Indicator of Resilience, in a Low-Income Neighborhood
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of prosocial behavior on physical activity, as an indicator of resilience, in a low-income neighborhood with adverse built environment and social conditions. Resilience is an important factor that promotes the ability for individuals to overcome hardships, and understanding resilience as it relates to health behavior is important in the efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable c…
(Can’t Get No) Neighborhood Satisfaction? How Multilevel Immigration Factors Shape Latinos’ Neighborhood Attitudes
How does immigrant generation shape Latinos’ neighborhood attitudes? We extend theoretical frameworks focused on neighborhood attainment to explore how immigrant generation structures Latinos’ neighborhood satisfaction, particularly with respect to neighborhood immigrant composition. Using longitudinal data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, we estimate fixed-effects regression models to examine the associations between self-rep…
Neighborhood social environments, healthy resources, and adult diabetes: Accounting for activity space exposures
Food insecurity in households with young children: A test of contextual congruence
Families in Context: Food Insecurity Among Hispanic Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Households With Children
Using restricted, geo-coded Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-2011 data (N = 2700) linked with 3 sources of contextual data, we examine whether a comprehensive set of individual, household, and county-level characteristics explains disparities in household food insecurity between Hispanic children of foreign- and US-born parents. Adjusting for individual, household, and county-level characteristics does not eliminate …
Child Obesity and the Interaction of Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context
Neighborhood and social environmental influences on child chronic disease prevalence
Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same-Sex Couple Families Fit
Increasing family diversity during the past half century has focused national attention on how children are faring in nontraditional family structures. Much of the limited evidence on children in same-sex couple families suffers from several shortcomings, including a lack of representative data. We use the National Health Interview Survey (2004-2012) and the National Survey of Children's Health (2011-2012) to identify children in different-sex ma…
Comprehensive Neighborhood Portraits and Child Asthma Disparities
Deciding to Wait: Partnership Status, Economic Conditions, and Pregnancy during the Great Recession
The Great Recession was associated with reduced fertility in the United States. Many questions about the dynamics underlying this reduction remain unanswered, however, including whether reduced fertility rates were driven by decreases in intended or unplanned pregnancies. Using restricted data from the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 4,630), we exploit variation in state economic indicators to assess the impact of economic conditi…
Home and away: Area socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity risk
Does neighborhood social and environmental context impact race/ethnic disparities in childhood asthma
Family poverty and neighborhood poverty: Links with children's school readiness before and after the Great Recession
Health‐Related Parenting Among U.S. Families and Young Children's Physical Health
Parenting is a constellation of behaviors, yet investigations of the link between parenting and children's health typically focus on singular behaviors. Thus, patterns of health‐related parenting among U.S. families, associations between patterns and children's physical health, and the prevalence of such patterns among different sociodemographic groups remain unknown. Applying latent class analysis to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth …
Associations and Intervening Mechanisms Between Family Structure and Young Children's Obesity
This study examined the links between different family structures-capturing type and stability thereof-and preschool-aged children's likelihood of being obese. We build on the limited number of studies that have pursued this topic by using a large, nationally representative sample of preschool-aged children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Birth Cohort ( n = 8,350) and exploring a wide range of mechanisms to explain these links. Resul…
Neighborhoods and Food Insecurity in Households with Young Children: A Disadvantage Paradox
In the United States, more than 1 in 5 households with children are unable to access and provide adequate food for a healthy, active lifestyle. We argue that the contribution of local context for food insecurity risk has largely been overlooked in favor of focusing on individual family characteristics, and that this is problematic given that mitigating food insecurity may be a communal process. We examine the relevance of neighborhood contributor…
Self-rated health, gender, and acculturative stress among immigrants in the U.S: New roles for social support
Obesity status trajectory groups among elementary school children
Boys, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black children were at higher risk of being overweight or obese throughout their elementary school years, supporting the need for obesity treatment. Post kindergarten and post second grade summer months were times when some children transitioned into overweight/obesity. It will be important to identify which behavioral factors (e.g., diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and/or sleep) predisposed children t…
Social Cohesion and Food Insecurity: Insights from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study
Contact Theory Extended: The Effects of Prior Racial Contact on Current Social Ties
Objective . We address methodological limitations in tests of contact theory. Just as importantly, we extend its theoretical focus to behaviors. Linking insights from social and cognitive psychology with contact theory, we hypothesize that prior racial contact will have significant effects on the racial diversity of contemporary social ties. Methods . Using the 1999–2000 Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Social Networks, we conduct univariate and mul…
Young children in urban areas: Links among neighborhood characteristics, weight status, outdoor play, and television watching
Socioeconomic Gradients in Health for White and Mexican-Origin Populations
Objectives. We assessed whether the few findings to date suggesting weak relationships between education and health-related variables among Hispanics are indicative of a more widespread pattern. Methods. We used logistic regression models to examine education differentials (i.e., education gradients) in health behaviors and outcomes among White and Mexican-origin adults, adolescents, and infants. We gathered information from 3 data sets: the Los …
Multiple contexts of exposure: Activity spaces, residential neighborhoods, and self-rated health
Acculturation in Context: Gender, Age at Migration, Neighborhood Ethnicity, and Health Behaviors
Objectives. This article investigates differences in smoking and binge‐drinking for Latinos by nativity, stratified by their age at immigration, and tests individual‐ and neighborhood‐level acculturation measures as determinants of those differences. Methods. Data are from the Los Angeles Families and Neighborhoods Study ( N =2,023) and analyses use multilevel logistic regression. Results. The article finds that Latino immigrants are less likely …
Acculturation and Self-Rated Health among Latino and Asian Immigrants to the United States
The ways in which immigrant health profiles change with shifts in acculturation is of increasing interest to scholars and policy makers in the United States, but little is known about the mechanisms that may link acculturation and self-rated health, particularly for Asians. Utilizing the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) and its data on foreign-born Latinos (N = 1,199) and Asians( N = 1,323) (Pennelletal.2004), we investigate and c…
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic differences in young children's obesity: Structural barriers to interventions
Racial and Ethnic Differentials in Overweight and Obesity Among 3-Year-Old Children
Objectives. We estimated racial/ethnic differences in overweight and obesity in a national sample of 3-year-olds from urban, low-income families and assessed possible determinants of differences. Methods. Survey, in-home observation, and interview data were collected at birth, 1 year, and 3 years. We used logistic regression analyses and adjusted for a range of covariates in examining overweight and obesity differentials according to race/ethnici…
Language Proficiency and Health Status: Are Bilingual Immigrants Healthier
Bilingual immigrants appear to have a health advantage, and identifying the mechanisms responsible for this is of increasing interest to scholars and policy makers in the United States. Utilizing the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS; n = 3,264), we investigate the associations between English and native-language proficiency and usage and self-rated health for Asian and Latino U.S. immigrants from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Me…
Maternal Mental Health, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Time Investments in Children
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,572) to examine relationships between maternal depression and mothers' time investments with their 5-year-old children in outings, trips to playgrounds or parks, time spent reading with the child, and time spent playing indoors with the child. We also examine whether mothers' self-assessments of neighborhoods are associated with time investments in children. Findings indicate …
Neighborhood context and immigrant children's physical activity
Neighborhood Social Capital, Parenting Strain, and Personal Mastery among Female Primary Caregivers of Children
Neighborhood social capital-resources inherent within community networks-has been identified as a potential facilitator of personal well-being. We test hypotheses concerning how neighborhood social capital moderates the influence of parenting strain on mastery (individuals' understanding of their ability to control personal life circumstances) for female primary caregivers of children. First, we test how different forms of neighborhood social cap…
The Influence of Acculturation on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Mexican-Americans
Home and away: Area socioeconomic disadvantage and obesity risk
Does neighborhood social and environmental context impact race/ethnic disparities in childhood asthma
Together Forever? Romantic Relationship Characteristics and Prenatal Health Behaviors
Using Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Data (N= 4,871), this paper examines why relationship status matters for prenatal health behaviors. The paper argues that a mother's potential investments in her child's health are conditioned by socioeconomic and interpersonal resources, including the quality of her relationship with the child's father. Mothers in strained relationships may experience more stress, which is associated with poor prenatal …
Deciding to Wait: Partnership Status, Economic Conditions, and Pregnancy during the Great Recession
The Great Recession was associated with reduced fertility in the United States. Many questions about the dynamics underlying this reduction remain unanswered, however, including whether reduced fertility rates were driven by decreases in intended or unplanned pregnancies. Using restricted data from the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 4,630), we exploit variation in state economic indicators to assess the impact of economic conditi…
Family poverty and neighborhood poverty: Links with children's school readiness before and after the Great Recession
Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same-Sex Couple Families Fit
Increasing family diversity during the past half century has focused national attention on how children are faring in nontraditional family structures. Much of the limited evidence on children in same-sex couple families suffers from several shortcomings, including a lack of representative data. We use the National Health Interview Survey (2004-2012) and the National Survey of Children's Health (2011-2012) to identify children in different-sex ma…
Health‐Related Parenting Among U.S. Families and Young Children's Physical Health
Parenting is a constellation of behaviors, yet investigations of the link between parenting and children's health typically focus on singular behaviors. Thus, patterns of health‐related parenting among U.S. families, associations between patterns and children's physical health, and the prevalence of such patterns among different sociodemographic groups remain unknown. Applying latent class analysis to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth …
Neighborhood social environments, healthy resources, and adult diabetes: Accounting for activity space exposures
Food insecurity in households with young children: A test of contextual congruence
Migration Decisions, Acculturation, and Overweight among Asian and Latino Immigrant Adults in the United States
Using the 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), we examine relationships between acculturation, migration decisions, and overweight among Latino and Asian immigrants. Pooled logistic regression models showed no evidence that acculturation and migration decisions were related to overweight among Asians, but models for Latinos indicated that aspects of acculturation (duration of US residence and English proficiency) and migrat…
Neighborhoods matter; but for whom? Heterogeneity of neighborhood disadvantage on child obesity by sex
Child Obesity and the Interaction of Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context
Contact Theory Extended: The Effects of Prior Racial Contact on Current Social Ties
Objective . We address methodological limitations in tests of contact theory. Just as importantly, we extend its theoretical focus to behaviors. Linking insights from social and cognitive psychology with contact theory, we hypothesize that prior racial contact will have significant effects on the racial diversity of contemporary social ties. Methods . Using the 1999–2000 Lilly Survey of Attitudes and Social Networks, we conduct univariate and mul…
On-the-Job Moms: Work and Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for a Sample of Low-Income Women
Socioeconomic Gradients in Health for White and Mexican-Origin Populations
Objectives. We assessed whether the few findings to date suggesting weak relationships between education and health-related variables among Hispanics are indicative of a more widespread pattern. Methods. We used logistic regression models to examine education differentials (i.e., education gradients) in health behaviors and outcomes among White and Mexican-origin adults, adolescents, and infants. We gathered information from 3 data sets: the Los …
Racial and Ethnic Differentials in Overweight and Obesity Among 3-Year-Old Children
Objectives. We estimated racial/ethnic differences in overweight and obesity in a national sample of 3-year-olds from urban, low-income families and assessed possible determinants of differences. Methods. Survey, in-home observation, and interview data were collected at birth, 1 year, and 3 years. We used logistic regression analyses and adjusted for a range of covariates in examining overweight and obesity differentials according to race/ethnici…
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Timing of First Marriage and Smoking Cessation
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (N = 4,050), we consider the relationship between the timing of family formation and positive changes in health behavior. Theories that predict both positive and negative associations are tested. The findings suggest that both mechanisms operate and that the direction of the association depends on the respondent's race or ethnicity. Whites who marry early are less likely to quit smoki…
Race, Ethnicity, And The Education Gradient In Health
Using pooled data from the 2000-2006 National Health Interview Survey, we document how the relationship between education and a broad range of health measures varies by race/ethnicity and nativity. We found that education is a more powerful determinant of health behaviors and outcomes for some groups than it is for others. In addition, the education differentials for foreign-born groups are typically more modest than those for corresponding nativ…
The Influence of Acculturation on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Mexican-Americans
Together Forever? Romantic Relationship Characteristics and Prenatal Health Behaviors
Using Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Data (N= 4,871), this paper examines why relationship status matters for prenatal health behaviors. The paper argues that a mother's potential investments in her child's health are conditioned by socioeconomic and interpersonal resources, including the quality of her relationship with the child's father. Mothers in strained relationships may experience more stress, which is associated with poor prenatal …
Acculturation in Context: Gender, Age at Migration, Neighborhood Ethnicity, and Health Behaviors
Objectives. This article investigates differences in smoking and binge‐drinking for Latinos by nativity, stratified by their age at immigration, and tests individual‐ and neighborhood‐level acculturation measures as determinants of those differences. Methods. Data are from the Los Angeles Families and Neighborhoods Study ( N =2,023) and analyses use multilevel logistic regression. Results. The article finds that Latino immigrants are less likely …
Young children in urban areas: Links among neighborhood characteristics, weight status, outdoor play, and television watching
Maternal Mental Health, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Time Investments in Children
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,572) to examine relationships between maternal depression and mothers' time investments with their 5-year-old children in outings, trips to playgrounds or parks, time spent reading with the child, and time spent playing indoors with the child. We also examine whether mothers' self-assessments of neighborhoods are associated with time investments in children. Findings indicate …
The Association Between Acculturation and Health Insurance Coverage for Immigrant Children from Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Regions of Origin
Acculturation and Self-Rated Health among Latino and Asian Immigrants to the United States
The ways in which immigrant health profiles change with shifts in acculturation is of increasing interest to scholars and policy makers in the United States, but little is known about the mechanisms that may link acculturation and self-rated health, particularly for Asians. Utilizing the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) and its data on foreign-born Latinos (N = 1,199) and Asians( N = 1,323) (Pennelletal.2004), we investigate and c…
Neighborhood Social Capital, Parenting Strain, and Personal Mastery among Female Primary Caregivers of Children
Neighborhood social capital-resources inherent within community networks-has been identified as a potential facilitator of personal well-being. We test hypotheses concerning how neighborhood social capital moderates the influence of parenting strain on mastery (individuals' understanding of their ability to control personal life circumstances) for female primary caregivers of children. First, we test how different forms of neighborhood social cap…
Language Proficiency and Health Status: Are Bilingual Immigrants Healthier
Bilingual immigrants appear to have a health advantage, and identifying the mechanisms responsible for this is of increasing interest to scholars and policy makers in the United States. Utilizing the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS; n = 3,264), we investigate the associations between English and native-language proficiency and usage and self-rated health for Asian and Latino U.S. immigrants from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Me…
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic differences in young children's obesity: Structural barriers to interventions
Neighborhood context and immigrant children's physical activity
Eviction's Fallout: Housing, Hardship, and Health
Millions of families across the United States are evicted each year. Yet, we know next to nothing about the impact eviction has on their lives. Focusing on low-income urban mothers, a population at high risk of eviction, this study is among the first to examine rigorously the consequences of involuntary displacement from housing. Applying two methods of propensity score analyses to data from a national survey, we find that eviction has negative e…
Physical Activity Disparities Between US-born and Immigrant Children by Maternal Region of Origin
Multiple contexts of exposure: Activity spaces, residential neighborhoods, and self-rated health
Self-rated health, gender, and acculturative stress among immigrants in the U.S: New roles for social support
Obesity status trajectory groups among elementary school children
Boys, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black children were at higher risk of being overweight or obese throughout their elementary school years, supporting the need for obesity treatment. Post kindergarten and post second grade summer months were times when some children transitioned into overweight/obesity. It will be important to identify which behavioral factors (e.g., diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and/or sleep) predisposed children t…
Social Cohesion and Food Insecurity: Insights from the Geographic Research on Wellbeing (GROW) Study
Migration Decisions, Acculturation, and Overweight among Asian and Latino Immigrant Adults in the United States
Using the 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), we examine relationships between acculturation, migration decisions, and overweight among Latino and Asian immigrants. Pooled logistic regression models showed no evidence that acculturation and migration decisions were related to overweight among Asians, but models for Latinos indicated that aspects of acculturation (duration of US residence and English proficiency) and migrat…
Comprehensive Neighborhood Portraits and Child Asthma Disparities
Medicine (38 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Demography (27 works) · Geography (25 works) · Demography (22 works) · Environmental health (20 works) · Population (20 works) · Ethnic group (17 works) · Gerontology (17 works)