Greg J. Duncan
May 3, 2020
Greg J. Duncan
School of Education (949)824-7831 voice (voicemails not monitored) University of California, Irvine (949)824-2965 fax 2001 Education [email protected] Irvine, CA 92697-5500 homepage: http://sites.uci.edu/gduncan
Citizenship: U.S. Education: B.A., Grinnell College, 1970; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974 (Economics)
Positions Held:
Present Positions: Distinguished Professor, School of Education and Departments of Economics (by courtesy) and Psychology and Social Behavior (by courtesy), University of California at Irvine, 2008-
Past Positions: Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2016-17 Adjunct Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2008-2013 Edwina S. Tarry Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, 2002-2008 Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1995-2008 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004-2005 Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, 1995-2002 Director, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, 2000-2003 Deputy Director, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University/University of Chicago, 1997-2000 Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), 1996, 1997, 1998 Distinguished Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 1993-1995 Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1987-1995 Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 1985-1993 Teacher, Training of European Statisticians Programme, Statistical Office of the European Communities, 1991-1998 Visiting Scholar, University of Bremen, 1993 Visiting Scholar, Centre d'Etudes de Populations, de Pauvrete, et de Politiques Socio-Economiques, Luxembourg, 1989 Senior Study Director (Associate Research Scientist), Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 1977-1985 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1983-1987 Visiting Scholar, Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research, Stockholm, Sweden, 1981, 1982 Visiting Scholar, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, West Germany, 1982 Visiting Associate Professor, Consumer Economics and Housing, Cornell University, September 1980-June 1981. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1977-1980 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 1975-1977 Study Director, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, June 1974-1977 Assistant Study Director, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, 1972-1974
Honors:
Doctor of the University of Essex, 1999 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001 Roy Geary Lecture, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, 2005 President, Midwest Economics Association, 2004-5 President (elected), Population Association of America, 2008 President (elected), Society for Research on Child Development, 2009-2011 Sidney Ball Lecture, Oxford University, 2009 Bronfenbrenner Lecture, Cornell University, 2009 1 Greg J. Duncan
National Academy of Education, 2009 National Academy of Sciences, 2010 Sir Frank Holmes Visiting Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2012 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, 2013 Kenneth Boulding Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2014 Society for Research in Child Development Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy and Practice in Child Development, 2015 International Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, 2015 Joan Huber Lecture, Ohio State University, 2019 Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2019
Service: Present: Chair, Data Monitoring Committee, Understanding America Study, National Institute on Aging, 2019-present. Chair, Finance Committee, Society for Research on Child Development, 2018-present Member, Editorial Board, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 2018-present. Member, Board of Directors, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017-present. Member, Report Review Committee, National Research Council, 2014-present. Member, Board of Directors and Moynihan Prize Selection Committee, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2014-present. Member, National Advisory Committee, Evidence for Action, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2015-present Member, Board of Trustees, W. T. Grant Foundation, 2014-present. Co-Editor, AREA Open, 2014-present. Action editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011-present. Member, First Things First National Advisory Panel (Arizona), 2011-present. Member, National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2002-2011, 2012-present.
Past: Chair, National Research Council’s Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years, 2017-2019. Member, Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education Review Panel, Institute for Education Sciences, US Department of Education, 2015-2018. Member, Outside Review Committee for the Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Academies of Science, Medicine and Engineering, 2017. Member, Advisory Board for the National Academies’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, 2010- 2017. Member, National Research Council’s Board on Testing and Assessment: Committee on Assessing Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Competencies, 2015-2017. Member, Search Committee for the Director of the Division of the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering, 2016. Member, National Research Council/Institute on Medicine Board on Children, Youth and Families: Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children, 2014-2016. Member, First 5 LA Research Advisory Committee, 2010-2015. Member, Expert Working Group, Evaluation of the Head Start Designation Renewal System, DHHS, 2012-2016 Member, National Advisory Board, National Poverty Centers, 2012-2015. Co-chair, National Forum on Early Childhood Program Evaluation, 2006-2015. Member, Board of Directors, National Academy of Education, 2011-2015. Member, MacArthur Research Network on How Housing Matters to Families and Children, 2011-2015. Member, Technical Working Group, Strengthening IES’s Research Grant and Training Programs, 2014. Member, Nominating Committee, American Education Research Association, 2014. Chair, National Research Council/Institute on Medicine Committee on the Design of the National Children’s Study and Implications for the Generalizability of Results, 2013-2014. Member, National Research Council, Steering Committee for a Workshop on Design of the National Children’s Study Main Study, 2012-2013. 2 Greg J. Duncan
Member (elected), Nominating Committee, Population Association of America, 2011-2012. Member, Class V Nominating Committee, National Academy of Sciences, 2011-2012. Chair, Nominating Committee, Society for Research on Child Development, 2012. Member, Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Evaluation, Secretary’s Advisory Committee, Department of Health and Human Services, 2011-2012. Member, various review committees, Institute for Education Sciences, 2009-2011. Member, Technical Working Group, Promise Neighborhoods Initiative, Department of Education, 2011-2012. Member, Committee on Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills, National Research Council, 2011-2012. Member, National Advisory Board, National Poverty Center, 2003-2011. Member, Independent Study Monitoring and Oversight Committee (iSMOC), National Children’s Study, 2009-2010 Member, W. T. Grant Faculty Scholar Selection Committee, 2000-2010 Member, MacArthur Network on Family and the Economy, 1996-2008. Member (elected), Governing Council, Society for Research on Child Development, 2005-2009 Member, Panel to Review the National Children’s Study (NCS) Research Plan, National Research Council, 2007-2008 Member, Technical Working Group, Americorp Evaluation Study, 2006-2008 Member, Social Science and Population Studies (SPSS) Study Section, NICHD/NIA, 2005-2008; Chair, 2006-2008 Vice-President (elected), Population Association of America, 2006-2007 Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Head Start Impact Study, 2003-2005 Member, Research Council, Rural Poverty Research Center, 2003-2005 Co-Chair, Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health, National Research Council/Institute on Medicine, 2002-2005. Member, Executive Session on Deviant Social Contagion, 2001-2005. Member, National Advisory Committee, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 2002-2005 Member, Family and Child Well-being Research Network, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1993-2005. Member, Advisory Board for the “Add Health” National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 1994-2003. Member, Technical Work Group, National Survey of Children and Adolescent Well-Being, 1997-2003. Member (elected), Nominating Committee, Population Association of America, 2004 Member, Technical Advisory Committee, “Moving to Opportunity” Housing Mobility Experiment, 2000-2003. Member, Brookings Roundtable on Children, The Brookings Institution, 1998-2003. Member, Committee on Population Statistics, Population Association of America, 1992-2003. Member, Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, National Research Council/Institute on Medicine, 1998-2001. Member, MacArthur Network on Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood, 1994-2003. Member, Nominations Committee, Society for Research on Child Development, 2001. Vice-President (elected), Midwest Economics Association, 1998-1999. Member, Forum on Adolescence, National Research Council/Institute on Medicine, 1997-2000. Member (elected), Board of Directors, Population Association of America, 1997-2000. Member, Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation, 1999-2000. Member, Public Policy Committee, Society for Research on Child Development, 1995-1999. Member, Program Review Panel for the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1993. Member, Social Science Research Council's Working Group on Communities and Neighborhoods, Family Process, and Individual Development, 1989-1996. Member, Gerontology and Geriatrics Review Committee, National Institute on Aging, 1988-1992. Member, National Research Council Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy, 1987-1990. Member, Advisory Board to the German Socioeconomic Panel, 1983-1989; Advisory Board to the British Household Panel Study, 1989-1993; Steering Committee to the European Science Foundation Scientific Network on Household Panel Studies, 1990-1994; Advisory Committee to the European Community Household Panel Survey, 1989-1995; Steering Committee for the European Community Household Panel Project, 1992-1995.
Publications
List of Published Work in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Hg2FyqkAAAAJ 3 Greg J. Duncan
Articles in Academic Journals
(Note: All multiple-author listings are equal authorship unless noted otherwise; names of supervised graduate student authors are italicized)
"Expected and Actual Residential Mobility" (with Sandra Newman), Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 42, No. 2, April 1976, pp. 174-86.
"Earnings Functions and Nonpecuniary Benefits," Journal of Human Resources, 11, No. 4, Fall 1976, pp. 462-83.
"The Local Consumer Information System: An Institution-to-Be?" (secondary author, with E. Scott Maynes, James N. Morgan, and Weston Vivian), Journal of Consumer Affairs, 11, No. 1 Summer 1977, pp. 17-33.
"Work History, Labor Force Attachment, and Earnings Differences Between the Races and Sexes" (with Mary Corcoran), Journal of Human Resources, 14, No. 2, Winter 1979, pp. 1-20.
"Residential Problems, Dissatisfaction, and Mobility" (with Sandra Newman), Journal of the American Planning Association, 45, No. 2, April 1979, pp. 154-166.
"On-the-Job Training and Earnings Differences by Race and Sex" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Review of Economics and Statistics, 61, No. 4, November 1979, pp. 594-603.
"Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wage Differentials?" (with Frank P. Stafford), American Economic Review, 70, No. 3, June 1980, pp. 355-371. "Reply" (to comments of Barron and Black and of Leigh). American Economic Review, 72, No.4, pp. 868-872.
"Most Workers Find Jobs Through Word of Mouth" (with Mary Corcoran and Linda Datcher), Monthly Labor Review, 103, No. 8, August 1980, pp. 33-35.
"The Effects of Inflation and Taxes on the Costs of Homeownership" (with James N. Morgan), Journal of Consumer Affairs, 14, No. 2, Winter 1980, pp. 383-393.
“The Incidence and Wage Effects of Overeducation" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Economics of Education Review, 1, No. 1, Winter 1981, pp. 75-86.
"The Dynamics of Local Markets: A Case Study of Cameras," Journal of Consumer Affairs, 15, No. 1, Summer 1981, pp. 64-74.
"Sense of Efficacy and Changes in Economic Status--A Replication" (with James N. Morgan), Journal of Human Resources, 16, No. 4, Fall 1981, pp. 649-657.
“A New Look at the Causes of the Improved Economic Status of Black Workers" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Journal of Human Resources, 18, No. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 268-82.
"Using Sample Survey Weights to Compare Various Linear Regression Models" (secondary author, with William DuMouchel), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78, No. 383, September 1983, pp. 535-543.
“A Longitudinal Analysis of the Wages of White Women" (with Mary Corcoran and Michael Ponza), Journal of Human Resources, 18, No. 4, Fall 1983, pp. 497-520.
"Was Adam Smith Right, After All? Another Test of the Theory of Compensating Wage Differentials" (with Bertil Holmlund), Journal of Labor Economics, 1, No. 4, October 1983, pp. 366-379.
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"A Framework for Setting Retirement Savings Goals" (with Olivia Mitchell and James N. Morgan), Journal of Consumer Affairs, 18, No. 1, Summer 1984, pp. 22-46.
"The Economic Fortunes of Women and Children--Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with Mary Corcoran and Martha S. Hill), Signs, 10, No. 2, Winter 1984, pp. 232-248. Reprinted in Barbara C. Gelpi, et al. Women and Poverty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Reprinted in Micheline Malson, et al. Black Women and Black Feminist Thought, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
"Panel Data and Models of Change: A Comparison of First Difference and Conventional Two-Wave Models" (with Jeffrey Liker and Sue Augustyniak), Social Science Research, 14, 1985, pp. 80-101.
"An Investigation of the Extent and Consequences of Measurement Error in Labor Economic Survey Data" (with Daniel Hill), Journal of Labor Economics, 3, No. 4, October 1985, pp. 508-522.
"Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty" (with Mary Corcoran, Patricia Gurin and Gerald Gurin), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 4, No. 4, Summer 1985, pp. 516-536.
"A Reconsideration of the Economic Consequences of Marital Dissolution" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Demography, 22, No. 4, November 1985, pp. 485-497.
"Conceptions of Longitudinal Households: Fertile or Futile?" (with Martha S. Hill), Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 13, Nos. 3 and 4, December, 1985, pp. 361-375.
"Issues in the Design and Analysis of Surveys across Time" (with Graham Kalton), International Statistical Review, 55, No. 1, April 1987, pp. 97-117.
"The Role of Panel Studies in Research on Economic Behavior" (lead author, with James N. Morgan and F. Thomas Juster), Transportation Research, 21A, No. 4/5, 1987, pp. 249-263.
"Single-Parent Families: Are Their Economic Problems Transitory or Persistent?" (with Willard Rodgers), Family Planning Perspectives, 19, No. 4, July/August, 1987, pp. 171-178.
"Parental Family Income and the Socioeconomic Attainment of Children" (with Martha Hill), Social Science Research, 16, 1987, pp. 39-73.
"Out of Work, Out of Mind: Response Error in Retrospective Reports of Unemployment" (with Nancy Mathiowetz), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 6, No. 2, April, 1988, pp. 221-229.
"Multinomial and Conditional Logit Discrete-Choice Models in Demography" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Demography, 25, No. 3, August 1988, pp. 415-428.
"Welfare Dependence Within and Across Generations" (with Martha Hill and Saul Hoffman), Science, 239, 29 January 1988, pp. 467-71.
"The Use and Effect of Welfare: A Survey of Recent Evidence" (with Saul Hoffman), Social Service Review, 62, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 238-257. This article was awarded the Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize as "the best in the field of welfare economics published in Social Service Review in the last three years".
"Longitudinal Aspects of Childhood Poverty" (with Willard Rodgers), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 50, November 1988, pp. 1007-1021.
"A Comparison of Choice-Based Multinomial and Nested Logit Models: The Family Structure and Welfare Use Decisions of Divorced or Separated Women" (secondary author, with Saul Hoffman), Journal of Human Resources, 23, No. 4, Fall 1988, pp. 550-562. 5 Greg J. Duncan
"What Are the Economic Consequences of Divorce?" (secondary author, with Saul Hoffman), Demography, 25, No. 4, November 1988, pp. 641-645.
"The Guns of Autumn? Age Differences in Support for Income Transfers to the Young and Old" (secondary author, with Michael Ponza, Mary Corcoran and Fred Groskind), Public Opinion Quarterly, 52, No. 4, Winter 1988, pp. 441-466.
"Economic Risks of Gender Roles: Income Loss and Life Events Over the Life Course" (with Richard Burkhauser), Social Science Quarterly, 70, No. 1, August 1988, pp. 3-23.
"Assessing the Quality of Household Panel Survey Data: The Case of the PSID" (with Daniel Hill), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 7, No. 4, October, 1989, pp. 441-451.
"Teenage Welfare Receipt and Subsequent Dependence Among Black Adolescent Mothers" (with Saul D. Hoffman), Family Planning Perspectives, 22, No. 1, January/February 1990, pp. 16-20,35.
"A Tale of Three Cities: Large, Medium, and Small Consumer Markets Compared" (secondary author, with E. Scott Maynes, Robin A. Douthitt and Loren V. Geistfeld) Journal of Consumer Policy, 12, No. 4, December 1989, pp. 451-463.
"Welfare Benefits, Economic Opportunities and Out-of-Wedlock Births Among Black Teenage Girls" (with Saul Hoffman), Demography, 27, No. 4, November 1990, pp. 519-536.
"Poverty Dynamics in Widowhood" (with John Bound, Deborah Laren and Lewis Oleinick), Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 46, No. 3, 1991, pp. 115-124.
"Economic Burdens of Marital Disruptions: A Comparison of the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany" (with Richard Burkhauser, Richard Hauser and Roland Berntsen), Review of Income and Wealth, 36, No. 4, December, 1990, pp. 319-334.
"Wife or Frau, Women Do Worse: A Comparison of Men and Women in the United States and Germany Following Marital Disruption" (with Richard Burkhauser, Richard Hauser and Roland Berntsen), Demography, 28, No. 3, August 1991, pp. 353-360.
"Remarriage Among the Recently Widowed" (secondary author, with Ken R. Smith and Cathleen Zick), Demography, 28, No. 3, August 1991, pp. 361-374.
"United States Public Policy and the Elderly: The Disproportionate Risk to the Well-Being of Women" (with Richard Burkhauser), Journal of Population Economics, 4, 1991, pp. 217-231.
"Has Children's Poverty Become More Persistent?" (with Willard Rodgers), American Sociological Review, 56, August, 1991, pp. 538-550.
"Made in Heaven: Secondary Data Analysis and Interdisciplinary Collaborators," Developmental Psychology, 27, No. 6, November, 1991, pp. 949-951.
"Do Neighborhoods Affect Child and Adolescent Development?" (with Jeanne-Brooks-Gunn, Pamela Klebanov and Naomi Sealand), American Journal of Sociology, 99, No. 2, September, 1993, pp. 353-395.
"Poverty Dynamics in Eight Countries" (primary author, with Bjorn Gustafsson, Richard Hauser, Gunther Schmauss, Hans Messinger, Ruud Muffels, Brian Nolan, Jean-Claude Ray), Journal of Population Economics, 6, No. 3, 1993, pp. 215-234.
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Guest Editor, "Symposium on Measuring Poverty" Journal of Population Economics, 6, No. 3, 1993.
"Errors in Survey Reports of Earnings, Hours Worked and Hourly Wages" (secondary author, with Willard Rodgers and Charles Brown), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88, No. 424, December, 1993, pp. 1208-1218.
"Economic Deprivation and Early-Childhood Development" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pamela Klebanov), Child Development, 65, No. 2, April, 1994, pp. 296-318.
"Evidence on the Validity of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Data" (with John Bound, Charles Brown and Willard Rodgers), Journal of Labor Economics, 12, No. 3, July, 1994, pp. 345-368. This article was awarded the H. Gregg Lewis Prize as the best article published in the Journal of Labor Economics in 1994.
"Does Neighborhood and Family Poverty Affect Mothers' Parenting, Mental Health and Social Support?" (secondary author, with Pamela Klebanov and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Journal of Marriage and the Family, 56, May, 1994, pp. 441-455.
"Families and Neighbors as Sources of Disadvantage in the Schooling Decisions of Black and White Adolescents" American Journal of Education, 103, No. 1, November, 1994, pp. 20-53.
"Sharing Prosperity Across the Age Distribution: A Comparison of the United States and Germany in the 1980s" (secondary author, with Richard Burkhauser and Richard Hauser) The Gerontologist, 34, No. 2, 1994, pp. 150- 160.
"Les Familles Monoparentales Aux États-Unis. Dynamique, Niveau de Vie et Conséquences Sur Le Dévelopement De L'Enfant (Lone Parent Families in the United States: Dynamics, Economic Status, and Developmental Consequences)" (with Wei-Jun J. Yeung) , Population, Vol. 49, No. 6, November-December, 1994, pp. 1419- 1436.
"Extent and Consequences of Welfare Dependence Among America's Children" (with Wei-Jun J. Yeung), Children and Youth Services Review, 17, No. 1/2, 1995, pp. 1-26.
"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with Charles Brown and Frank Stafford), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring, 1996, pp. 155-168.
"The Effects of Incomes, Wages, and AFDC Benefits on Marital Disruption" (secondary author, with Saul D. Hoffman). Journal of Human Resources, 30, No. 1, 1995, pp. 19-41.
"Access to Social Capital" (with Johanne Boisjoly and Sandra Hofferth). Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 16, No. 5, September, 1995, pp. 609-631.
"Ethnic Differences In Children's Intelligence Test Scores: Role of Economic Deprivation, Home Environment and Maternal Characteristics" (secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pamela Klebanov), Child Development, Vol. 67, April, 1996, pp. 396-408,
"L'accès à Une Première Propriété: Quels Revenus Considérer? Analyses du Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (The Timing of First Homeownership: Whose Income Matters the Most?" (with Johanne Boisjoly and Sandra Hofferth) Economie & Prevision, Vol. 121, 5, 1996, pp. 1-10.
"Income Dynamics and Health," International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1996, pp. 419-444.
"Economic Mobility of Young Workers in the 1970s and 1980s" (with Johanne Boisjoly and Timothy Smeeding) Demography, Vol. 33, No. 4, November 1996, pp. 497-509.
"The Effects of Poverty on Children" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), The Future of Children, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer-Fall 7 Greg J. Duncan
1997, pp. 55-71.
"Welfare Dynamics and the 1996 Welfare Reforms" (with Gretchen Caspary) Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1997, pp. 605-632.
“Income Dynamics and Adult Mortality in the U.S., 1972-1989” (with Peggy McDonough, David Williams, and James House) American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 87, No. 9, 1997, pp. 1476-1483.
“Do Parents’ Social Activities Promote Children’s School Attainments? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel” (with Felix Büchel), Journal of Marriage and the Family, Volume 60, February, 1998, pp. 95-108.
“The Shifting Incidence of Involuntary Job Losses from 1968 to 1992” (with Johanne Boisjoly and Timothy Smeeding) Industrial Relations, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 207-231.
"How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Wei-Jun J. Yeung, and Judith Smith), American Sociological Review, Volume 63, Number 3, June 1998, pp. 406-423.
“Long-Run Effects of Motivation on Labor Market Success” (with Rachel Dunifon), Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 33-48.
"Parental Extrafamilial Resources and Children's School Attainment" (with Sandra Hofferth and Johanne Boisjoly) Sociology of Education, Volume 71, Number 3, July 1998, pp. 246-268.
"The Development of Social Capital" (with Sandra Hofferth and Johanne Boisjoly) Rationality and Society, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-110.
“Macro-to-Micro Linkages in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Mortality” (with Mary Daly, George Kaplan and John Lynch) The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 76, Number 3, 1998, pp. 315-339.
“Trends, Events, and Durations of Initial Welfare Spells” (with Johanne Boisjoly and Kathleen Mullan Harris) Social Service Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, 1998, pp. 466-492.
“Soft Skills and Long-Run Labor Market Success,” (with Rachel Dunifon) Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 17, JAI Press, 1998. Reprinted as Chapter 8 in Research in Labor Economics; Vol 35; 35th Anniversary Retrospective; edited by Solomon W. Polachek and Konstantinos Tatsiramos, forthcoming.
“The Structure of Achievement and Behavior across Middle Childhood” (with Lori Kowaleski-Jones) Child Development, Volume 70, Number 4, July/August 1999, pp. 930-943.
“Assessing the Effects of Context in Studies of Child and Youth Development” (with Stephen Raudenbush) Educational Psychologist, Vol. 34, No. 1, 1999, pp. 29-41.
“Gender and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality” (secondary author, with Peggy McDonough, David Williams, and James House) Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 40, No. 1, March, 1999, pp. 17-31.
“Correlations between Neighboring Children in their Subsequent Educational Attainment” (secondary author, with Gary Solon and Marianne Page) Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 82, No. 3, August, 2000, pp. 383-392.
“Time Limits and Welfare Reform: New Estimates of the Number and Characteristics of Affected Families” (with Kathleen Mullan Harris and Johanne Boisjoly) Social Service Review, Vol. 74, No. 1, March, 2000, pp. 55-75.
“Family Poverty, Welfare Reform and Child Development” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Child Development, Volume 71, No. 1, January/February, 2000, pp. 188-196.
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“Premiums and Penalties and for Surplus and Deficit Education: Evidence from the United States and Germany” (with Mary Daly and Felix Büchel) Economics of Education Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2000, pp. 169-178.
“Putting Fathers Back Into the Picture: Parental Activities and Children’s Adult Outcomes” (with Jean Yeung and Martha Hill) Marriage and Family Review, Volume 29, No. 2/3, Part I, 2000, pp. 97-113.
“Work-based Anti-Poverty Programs for Parents Can Enhance the School Performance and Social Behavior of Children” (with Aletha C. Huston, Robert Granger, Johannes Bos, Vonnie McLoyd, Rashmita Mistry, Danielle Crosby, Christina Gibson, Katherine Magnuson, Jennifer Romich and Ana Ventura), Child Development, Vol. 72, No. 1, January/February 2001, pp. 318-336.
“Childhood Family Structure and Young Adult Behavior” (with Martha Hill and Wei-Jun J. Yeung) Journal of Population Economics, Volume 14, No. 2, 2001, pp.271-99. Reprinted in Family, Household and Work, edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann and Michael Vogler, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 173-202..
“Urban Poverty And Juvenile Crime: Evidence from A Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment” (with Jens Ludwig and Paul Hirschfield) Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 116, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 665-679.
“The Long and Short of Asking Questions about Income, Wealth and Labor Supply” (with Eric Petersen) Social Science Research, Vol. 30, 2001, pp. 248-263.
“The Effects of Urban Poverty on Educational Outcomes: Evidence From a Randomized Experiment” (secondary author, with Jens Ludwig and Helen Ladd) Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Edited by William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack. Washington, DC: Brookings, 2001 pp. 147-201.
“As Ye Sweep, So Shall Ye Reap” (with Rachel Dunifon and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) American Economic Review - Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 91, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 150-154.
“Sibling, Peer, Neighbor and Schoolmate Correlations as Indicators of the Importance of Context for Adolescent Development” (with Kathleen Mullan Harris and Johanne Boisjoly) Demography, Vol. 38, No. 3, August, 2001, pp. 437-447.
“Evaluating The Role Of "Nothing To Lose" Attitudes On Risky Behavior In Adolescence” (with Kathleen Mullan Harris and Johanne Boisjoly) Social Forces, Vol. 80. No. 3, 2001, pp. 1005-1039.
“Covariance Structure Models for Fixed and Random Effects” (secondary author, with Jay Teachman, Wei-Jun J. Yeung, and Dan Levy). Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 30, No. 2, November 2001, pp. 271-288.
“Welfare Reform in Rural America: What Have We Learned?” (with Bruce Weber and Leslie Whitener) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 83, No. 5, December 2001, pp. 1282-1292.
“Effects of Participation in the WIC Program on Birth Weight: Evidence from NLSY Children” (Secondary author, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones) American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 92, No. 5, May 2002, pp.799-804.
“The Relationship Between All-Cause Mortality and Cumulative Working Life Course Psychosocial and Physical Exposures in the United States Labor Market from 1968-1992” (Secondary author, with Amick, Benjamin, McDonough, Peggy, Chang, Hong, Rogers, William, and Pieper, Carl) Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol. 64, 2002, pp. 370-381.
“Optimal Indicators of Socioeconomic Status for Health Research” (with Mary Daly, Peggy McDonough and David Williams) American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 92, No. 7, July, 2002, pp., 1151-1157.
“Economics and Parenting” (with Katherine Magnuson) Parenting: Science and Practice, Vol. 2, Number 4, October- December, 2002, pp. 437-450. 9 Greg J. Duncan
“How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent Achievement” (with Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman and Pamela Morris) American Economic Review - Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 93, No. 2, May 2003, pp. 299-303.
“The Promise of Random-Assignment Social Experiments for Understanding Well-Being and Behavior” (with Katherine A. Magnuson), Current Sociology, Vol. 51, No. 5, September 2003, pp. 529-541. A French translation of this article appeared simultaneously in Sociologie et Sociétés, 35(1), pp. 243-256 under the title “Comment les expériences sociales avec assignation aléatoire permettent de mieux comprendre le comportement et les politiques de bien-être.”
“The Black-White Test Score Gap in Young Children: Contributions of Test and Family Characteristics” (secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Pamela K. Klebanov, Judith Smith, Kyunghee Lee), Applied Developmental Science, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2003, pp. 239-252.
“Modeling the Impacts of Child Care Quality on Children’s Preschool Cognitive Development” (with the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network). Child Development, Vol. 74, No. 5, October 2003, pp. 1454-1475.
“The Importance of Place in Welfare Reform: Are Work, Welfare, and Poverty Outcomes Different in Rural Areas?” (secondary author, with Bruce Weber and Mark Edwards), Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, Winter 2004, pp.31-51.
“The Endogeneity Problem in Developmental Studies” (with Katherine Magnuson and Jens Ludwig) Research in Human Development, Vol. 1, Nos. 1&2, 2004, pp. 59-80.
“How Welfare Policies Affect Adolescents' School Outcomes: A Synthesis of Evidence from Experimental Studies” (with Lisa A. Gennetian, Virginia Knox, Wanda Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman and Andrew S. London) Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 14, Number 4, December 2004, pp. 399-423. This was awarded the 2006 Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Award for best journal article published in 2004-5.
“Housing Mobility Programs and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” (secondary author, with Jens Ludwig and Joshua C. Pinkston), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89, No. 1, January 2005, pp. 131-156.
“Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide A Long-Term Escape from Neighborhood Segregation, Crime and Poverty?” (with Micere Keels, Stefanie DeLuca, Ruby Mendenhall and James Rosenbaum) Demography, Volume 42, Number 1, February 2005.
“Peer Effects in Drug Use and Sex among College Students” (with Johanne Boisjoly, Michael Kremer, Dan M. Levy, and Jacque Eccles) Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Volume 33, Number 3, June 2005, pp. 375-385. “Can Family Socioeconomic Resources Account for Racial and Ethnic Test Score Gaps?” (with Katherine Magnuson), Future of Children, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 35-54.
“Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children: New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s” (with Pamela Morris and Lisa Gennetian), Social Policy Report, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2005.
"Does Employment Protect Low-Income Women From Domestic Abuse?” (with Christina Gibson, Katherine Magnuson and Lisa Gennetian) Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 67, December 2005, pp. 1149-1168.
“Panel and Pseudo-Panel Estimation of Cross-Sectional and Time Series Elasticities of Food Consumption: The Case of U.S. and Polish Data,” (with François Gardes, Patrice Gaubert, Marc Gurgand and Christophe Starzec) Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2005, pp. 242 – 253.
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“Residential Mobility Program Participation from the Client’s Perspective” (with Jennifer Pahsup, Kathryn Edin and Karen Burke), Housing Policy Debate, Volume 16, No. 3-4, 2005, pp. 361-392.
“Child Well-Being in an Era of Welfare Reform: The Sensitivity of Transition in Development to Policy Change” (with Pamela Morris and Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman) Developmental Psychology, Volume 41, Number 6, 2005, pp. 919-932.
“Impacts on Children of a Policy to Promote Employment and Reduce Poverty: New Hope After Five Years” (with Aletha Huston, Vonnie McLoyd, Thomas Weisner, Danielle Crosby, Marika Ripke and Carolyn Eldred) Developmental Psychology, Volume 41 No. 6, 2005, pp. 902 -18
”Empathy or Antipathy: The Impact of Diversity” (with Johanne Boisjoly, Michael Kremer, Dan M. Levy and Jacque Eccles), American Economic Review, Vol. 96, Number 5, December 2005, pp. 1890-1905. “Connecting Child Care Quality to Child Outcomes: Drawing Policy Lessons from Nonexperimental Data” (with Christina Gibson-Davis), Evaluation Review, Vol. 30, No. 5, October, 2006, pp. 1-20. “Neighborhood Resources, Racial Segregation and Economic Mobilty: Results from the Gautreaux Program” (with Ruby Mendenhall and Stefanie DeLuca), Social Science Research, Volume 35, Issue 4 , December 2006, Pages 892- 923.
“Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment” (secondary author, with Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeffrey Kling and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2006, pp. 649–691. “Child Characteristics and Successful Use of Housing Vouchers: Estimates from the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration,” (with Emily Snell), Housing Policy Debate, Volume 17, No. 4, 2006, pp. 727-754.
“The Role of Family Socioeconomic Resources in Black and White Test Score Gaps among Young Children” (with Katherine Magnuson), Developmental Review, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2006, pp. 365-399.
“Mobility Lessons from Gautreaux and Moving to Opportunity” (with Anita Zuberi), Journal of Law and Social Policy, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer 2006
“Cleaning Up Their Act: The Effects of Marriage and Cohabitation on Licit and Illicit Drug Use” (with Paula England and Bessie Wilkerson), Demography, Volume 43, Number 4, November 2006, pp. 691-710.
“The Effects of Sleep On Child and Adolescent BMI and Overweight Status” (secondary author, with Emily Snell and Emma K. Adam) Child Development, Volume 78, Issue 7, Jan/Feb 2007, pages 309-323.
“Penny Wise and Effect Size Foolish” (with Katherine Magnuson), Child Development Perspectives, Volume 1 Issue 1, pp. 46-51, July 2007.
“Reducing Poverty through Pre-School Interventions” (with Jens Ludwig and Katherine Magnuson), Future of Children issue on "The Next Generation of Anti-Poverty Policies," Volume 17. No. 2, pp. 143-160, Fall 2007.
Duncan, G. J., Dowsett, C., Claessens, A., Magnuson, K., Huston, A., Klebanov, P., Pagani, L., Feinstein, L., Engel, M., Brooks-Gunn, J., Sexton, H., Duckworth, K., and Japel, C. (2007) “School Readiness and Later Achievement”, Developmental Psychology, 43(6): 1428–1446.
Duncan, G. J. (2008). What to Make of “Unexpected” Pathways? Journal of Social Issues, 64(1), 213-218. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00556.x
Holzer, H. J., Whitmore Schanzenbach, D., Duncan, G. J., & Ludwig, J. (2008). The economic costs of childhood poverty in the United States. Journal of Children and Poverty, 14(1), 41-61. doi: 10.1080/10796120701871280
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Ludwig, J., Liebman, J. B., Kling, J. R., Duncan, G. J., Katz, L. F., Kessler, R. C., & Sanbonmatsu, L. (2008). What can we learn about neighborhood effects from the Moving to Opportunity experiment? American Journal of Sociology, 114(1), 144-188. doi: 10.1086/588741
Duncan, G. J. (2008). When to promote, and when to avoid, a population perspective. Demography, 45, 763-784. PMCID: PMC2834383
Ziol-Guest, K. M., Duncan, G. J., & Kalil, A. (2009). Early childhood poverty and adult body mass index. American Journal of Public Health, 99(3), 527. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.130575. PMCID: PMC2661458
Claessens, A., Duncan, G.J, & Engel, M. (2009). Kindergarten skills and fifth-grade achievement: Evidence from the ECLS-K. Economics of Education Review, 28(4), 415-427. doi: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2008.09.003
Duncan, G. J., Bos, H., Gennetian, L. A., & Hill, H. (2009). New Hope: A Thoughtful and Effective Approach to “Make Work Pay”. Northwestern journal of law and social policy, 4(1). PMCID: PMC3235034
Guo, G., Hardie, J. H., Owen, C., Daw, J. K., Fu, Y., Lee, H., ... & Duncan, G.J. (2009). DNA Collection in a Randomized Social Science Study of College Peer Effects. Sociological Methodology, 39(1), 1-29. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9531.2009.01214.x
Duncan, G. J. (2010). Attention problems in primary school affect education achievements at high school. Evidence Based Mental Health, 13(1), 9. doi: 10.1136/ebmh.13.1.9
DeLuca, S., Duncan, G. J., Keels, M., & Mendenhall, R. M. (2010). Gautreaux mothers and their children: An update. Housing Policy Debate, 20(1), 7-25. doi: 10.1080/10511481003599829
Duncan, G. J., Ziol‐Guest, K. M., & Kalil, A. (2010). Early‐Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior, and Health. Child Development, 81(1), 306-325. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01396.x
Clampet-Lundquist, S., Edin, K., Kling, J. R., & Duncan, G. J. (2011). Moving teenagers out of high-risk neighborhoods: How girls fare better than boys. American Journal of Sociology, 116(4), 1154-1189. doi: 10.1086/657352
Boyd, M. L., Edin, K., Clampet-Lundquist, S., & Duncan, G. J. (2010). The durability of gains from the Gautreaux Two residential mobility program: a qualitative analysis of who stays and who moves from low-poverty neighborhoods. Housing Policy Debate, 20(1), 119-146. doi: 10.1080/10511481003599902
Reich, S. M., Penner, E. K., & Duncan, G. J. (2011). Using baby books to increase new mothers’ safety practices. Academic Pediatrics, 11(1), 34-43. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2010.12.006. PMCID: PMC3043459
McDade, T. W., Chyu, L., Duncan, G. J., Hoyt, L. T., Doane, L. D., & Adam, E. K. (2011). Adolescents’ expectations for the future predict health behaviors in early adulthood. Social Science & Medicine, 73(3), 391-398. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.005. PMCID: PMC3148854
Ludwig, J., Sanbonmatsu, L., Gennetian, L., Adam, E., Duncan, G. J., Katz, L. F., ... & McDade, T. W. (2011). Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes—a randomized social experiment. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(16), 1509-1519. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1103216. PMCID: PMC3410541
Duncan, G. J., Morris, P. A., & Rodrigues, C. (2011). Does money really matter? Estimating impacts of family income on young children's achievement with data from random-assignment experiments. Developmental Psychology, 47(5), 1263-1279. doi: 10.1037/a0023875. PMCID: PMC3208322
Adam, E. K., Chyu, L., Hoyt, L. T., Doane, L. D., Boisjoly, J., Duncan, G. J., ... & McDade, T. W. (2011). Adverse adolescent relationship histories and young adult health: cumulative effects of loneliness, low parental support, 12 Greg J. Duncan
relationship instability, intimate partner violence, and loss. Journal of Adolescent Health, 49(3), 278-286. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jadohealth.2010.12.012. PMCID: PMC3160601
Keys, T. D., Conley, A. M., Duncan, G. J., & Domina, T. (2012). The role of goal orientations for adolescent mathematics achievement. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 37(1), 47-54. doi: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2011.09.002
Duncan, G. J. (2012). Give us this day our daily breadth. Child Development, 83(1), 6-15. doi: 10.1111/j.1467- 8624.2011.01679.x
Duncan, G. J., & Magnuson, K. (2012). Socioeconomic status and cognitive functioning: moving from correlation to causation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3(3), 377-386. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1176
Reich, S. M., Penner, E. K., Duncan, G. J., & Auger, A. (2012). Using baby books to change new mothers’ attitudes about corporal punishment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 36(2), 108-117. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.09.017. PMCID: PMC3321267
Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., Kalil, A., & Ziol-Guest, K. (2012). The importance of early childhood poverty. Social Indicators Research, 108(1), 87-98. doi: 10.1007/s11205-011-9867-9
Siegler, R. S., Duncan, G. J., Davis-Kean, P. E., Duckworth, K., Claessens, A., Engel, M., ... & Chen, M. (2012). Early predictors of high school mathematics achievement. Psychological Science, 23(7), 691-697. doi: 10.1177/0956797612440101
Ludwig, J., Duncan, G. J., Gennetian, L. A., Katz, L. F., Kessler, R. C., Kling, J. R., & Sanbonmatsu, L. (2012). Neighborhood effects on the long-term well-being of low-income adults. Science, 337(6101), 1505-1510. doi: 10.1126/science.1224648. PMCID: PMC3491569
Ziol-Guest, K. M., Duncan, G. J., Kalil, A., & Boyce, W. T. (2012). Early childhood poverty, immune-mediated disease processes, and adult productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (Supplement 2), 17289- 17293. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1203167109. PMCID: PMC3477379
Snell, E. K., Castells, N., Duncan, G.J, Gennetian, L., Magnuson, K., & Morris, P. (2013). Promoting the Positive Development of Boys in High‐Poverty Neighborhoods: Evidence From Four Anti‐Poverty Experiments. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 23(2), 357-374. doi: 10.1111/jora.12014. PMCID: PMC3859244
Shager, H. M., Schindler, H. S., Magnuson, K. A., Duncan, G. J., Yoshikawa, H., & Hart, C. M. (2012). Can research design explain variation in Head Start research results? A meta-analysis of cognitive and achievement outcomes? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 35(1), 76-95. doi: 10.3102/0162373712462453
Duncan, G. J., & Magnuson, K. (2013). Investing in preschool programs. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(2), 109-132. doi: 10.1257/jep.27.2.109. PMCID: PMC4318654
Ludwig, J., Duncan, G. J., Gennetian, L. A., Katz, L. F., Kessler, R. C., Kling, J. R., & Sanbonmatsu, L. (2013). Long- term neighborhood effects on low-income families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity. American Economic Review, 103(3), 226-231. doi: 10.1257/aer.103.3.226
Li, W., Farkas, G., Duncan, G. J., Burchinal, M. R., & Vandell, D. L. (2013). Timing of high-quality child care and cognitive, language, and preacademic development. Developmental Psychology, 49(8), 1440-1454. doi: 10.1037/a0030613. PMCID: PMC4034459
Keys, T. D., Farkas, G., Burchinal, M. R., Duncan, G. J., Vandell, D. L., Li, W., ... & Howes, C. (2013). Preschool center quality and school readiness: Quality effects and variation by demographic and child characteristics. Child
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development, 84(4), 1171-1190. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12048. PMCID: PMC4024382
Duncan, G. J., & Sojourner, A. J. (2013). Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps? Journal of Human Resources, 48(4), 945-968. doi: 10.1353/jhr.2013.0025. PMCID: PMC4302948
Duncan, G. J., & Magnuson, K. (2013). The importance of poverty early in childhood. Policy Quarterly, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v9i2.4448
Sciandra, M., Sanbonmatsu, L., Duncan, G. J., Gennetian, L. A., Katz, L. F., Kessler, R. C., ... & Ludwig, J. (2013). Long-term effects of the Moving to Opportunity residential mobility experiment on crime and delinquency. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 9(4), 451-489. doi: 10.1007/s11292-013-9189-9. PMCID: PMC3858819
Ruzek, E., Burchinal, M., Farkas, G., & Duncan, G. J. (2014). The quality of toddler child care and cognitive skills at 24 months: Propensity score analysis results from the ECLS-B. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 29(1), 12-21. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2013.09.002. PMCID: PMC3857730
Kessler, R. C., Duncan, G. J., Gennetian, L. A., Katz, L. F., Kling, J. R., Sampson, N. A., ... & Ludwig, J. (2014). Associations of housing mobility interventions for children in high-poverty neighborhoods with subsequent mental disorders during adolescence. Journal of the American Medical Association, 311(9), 937-947. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.607. PMCID: PMC4100467
Garfield, C. F., Duncan, G.J., Rutsohn, J., McDade, T. W., Adam, E. K., Coley, R. L., & Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2014). A longitudinal study of paternal mental health during transition to fatherhood as young adults. Pediatrics, 133(5), 836-843. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-3262d. PMCID: PMC4006439
McDade, T. W., Metzger, M. W., Chyu, L., Duncan, G. J., Garfield, C., & Adam, E. K. (2014). Long-term effects of birth weight and breastfeeding duration on inflammation in early adulthood. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1784), 20133116. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3116. PMCID: PMC4043079
Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2014). Boosting family income to promote child development. The Future of Children, 99-120. doi: 10.1353/foc.2014.0008
Miller, E. B., Farkas, G., Vandell, D. L., & Duncan, G. J. (2014). Do the effects of Head Start vary by parental preacademic stimulation? Child Development, 85(4), 1385-1400. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12233. PMCID: PMC4107068
Duncan, G. J., Engel, M., Claessens, A., & Dowsett, C. J. (2014). Replication and robustness in developmental research. Developmental Psychology, 50(11), 2417. doi: 10.1037/a0037996. PMCID Journal – In Process
Rutherford, T., Farkas, G., Duncan, G.J., Burchinal, M., Kibrick, M., Graham, J., ... & Martinez, M. E. (2014). A Randomized Trial of an Elementary School Mathematics Software Intervention: Spatial-Temporal Math. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 7(4), 358-383. doi: 10.1080/19345747.2013.856978
McCormick, M. C., Baker, D. B., Biemer, P. P., Carlson, B. L., Diez Roux, A. V., Lesser, V. M., ... & Duncan, G. J. (2014). The National Children's Study 2014: Commentary on a Recent National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Report. Academic Pediatrics, 14(6), 545-546. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2014.08.008
Au, J., Sheehan, E., Tsai, N., Duncan, G. J., Buschkuehl, M., & Jaeggi, S. M. (2014). Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory: a meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-12. doi: 10.3758/s13423-014- 0699-x.
Watts, T. W., Duncan, G. J., Siegler, R. S., & Davis-Kean, P. E. (2014). What’s Past Is Prologue Relations Between Early Mathematics Knowledge and High School Achievement. Educational Researcher, 43(7), 352-360. doi: 14 Greg J. Duncan
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Auger, A., Farkas, G., Burchinal, M. R., Duncan, G. J., & Vandell, D. L. (2014). Preschool center care quality effects on academic achievement: An instrumental variables analysis. Developmental Psychology, 50(12), 2559. doi: 10.1037/a0037995. PMCID Journal – In Process
Duncan, G.J., McCormick, M.C., & Citro, C.F. (2015). The Future of the National Children’s Study. Journal of the American Medical Association: Pediatrics, 169(6), 517-518. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.0364
Guo, G., Li, Y., Owen, C., Wang, H., & Duncan, G.J. (2015). A Natural Experiment of Peer Influences on Youth Alcohol Use. Social Science Research, 52, 193-207. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.01.002
Duncan, G.J. (2015). Toward an Empirically Robust Science of Human Development. Research in Human Development, 12(1), 255-60: DOI: 10.1080/15427609.2015.1068061
Ruzek, E. A., Domina, T., Conley, A., Duncan, G. J., Karabenick, S. (2015). Using Value-Added Models to Measure Teacher Effects on Students’ Motivation and Achievement. Journal of Early Adolescence, 35(5-6), 852 –882 DOI: 10.1177/0272431614525260.
Ziol-Guest, K., Duncan, G. J., Kalil, A. (2015). One-parent students leave school earlier: Educational attainment gap widens. Education Next, 15(2), 36–41. 1539-9672.
Guo, G., Li, Y., Wang, H., Cai, Tianji, & Duncan, G. J. (2015). Peer Influence, Genetic Propensity, and Binge Drinking: A Natural Experiment and a Replication, American Journal of Sociology, 121(3), 914-954.
Schindler, H., Kholoptseva, J., Oh, S., Yoshikawa, H., Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., Shonkoff, J. (2015). Maximizing the potential of early childhood education to prevent externalizing behavior problems: A meta-analysis. Journal of School Psychology, 53(3), 243–263. doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2015.04.001. This article won the journal’s Article of the Year Award for 2015.
Rickford, J., Duncan, G.J., Gennetian, L., Gou, R.Y., Greene, R., Katz, L.F., Kessler, R., Kling, J., Sanbonmatsu, L., Sanchez-Ordoñez, A., Sciandra, M., Thomas, E., Ludwig, J., (2015). Neighborhood effects on use of African- American Vernacular English, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38), 11817-11822.
Watts, T. W., Duncan, G. J., Chen, M., Claessens, A., Davis-Kean, P. E., Duckworth, K., Engel, M., Siegler, R. & Susperreguy, M. (2015). The Role of Mediators in the Development of Longitudinal Mathematics Achievement Associations. Child Development. 86(6), 1892-1907. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12416.
Au, J., Buschkuehl, M., Duncan, G. J., & Jaeggi, S. M. (2016). There is no convincing evidence that working memory training is NOT effective: A reply to Melby-Lervåg and Hulme (2015). Psychonomic bulletin & review, 23(1), 331-337. doi:10.3758/s13423-015-0967-4
Miller, E. J., Duncan, G. J., & Farkas, G. (2016). Does Head Start Differentially Benefit Children With Risks Targeted by the Program's Service Model? Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 34, 1-12. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.08.001
Jenkins, J. M., Farkas, G., Duncan, G. J., Burchinal, M., & Vandell, D. L. (2016). Head Start at Ages 3 and 4 Versus Head Start Followed by State Pre-K Which Is More Effective?. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 38(1), 88-112. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373715587965.
Magnuson, K. A., Kelchen, R., Duncan, G. J., Schinder, H. S., Shager, H. & Yoshikawa, H. (2016). Do the effects of early childhood education programs differ by gender? A meta-analysis. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 36, 521-526. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.12.021
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Duncan, G.J., Magnuson, K. & Murnane, R.M. (2016). Reforming school and preschools, Academic Pediatrics, 16:S121–S127. doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2015.12.003
Duncan, G.J. & Murnane, R. J. (2016) Rising inequality in family incomes and children’s educational outcomes, Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(2), 142–158.
Riley, A. W., & Duncan, G. J. (2016). Completing a National Birth Cohort in the United States. JAMA pediatrics, 170(9), 829-830. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.1760
Magnuson, K. & Duncan, G.J.. (2016) Can early childhood interventions decrease inequality of economic opportunity? The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(2), 123–141.
Nguyen, T., Watts, T. W., Duncan, G. J., Clements, D. H., Sarama, J. S., Wolfe, C., & Spitler, M. E. (2016). Which preschool mathematics competencies are most predictive of fifth grade achievement? Early childhood research quarterly, 36, 550-560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2016.02.003
Garfield, C. F., Duncan, G., Peters, S., Rutsohn, J., McDade, T. W., Adam, E. K., Coley, R. L.,& Chase-Lansdale, P. L. (2016). Adolescent reproductive knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs and future fatherhood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 58(5), 497-503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.12.010.
Magnuson, K., Duncan, G.J., Lee, Kenneth T.H., & Metzger, M. (2016) Early Elementary School Adjustment and Educational Attainment, American Education Research Journal, 53(4),1198-1228. doi.org/10.3102/0002831216634658.
Grindal, T., Bowne, J. B., Yoshikawa, H., Schindler, H. S., Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., & Shonkoff, J. P. (2016). The added impact of parenting education in early childhood education programs: A meta-analysis. Children and Youth Services Review, 70, 238-249. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.09.018
Duncan, G.J., Magnuson, K. & Vortuba-Drzal, E. (2017). Moving beyond correlations in assessing the consequences of poverty. Annual Review of Psychology 68(1), 413-434. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044224.
Bailey, D., Duncan, G.J., Odgers, C. & Wu, W. (2017). Persistence and fadeout in the impacts of child and adolescent interventions. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 10(1):7–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2016.1232459doi:10.1080/19345747.2016.1232459
Duncan, G.J., Kalil, A., Ziol-Guest, K. (2017). Increasing inequality in parent incomes and children’s schooling. Demography, 54(5), 1603-1626. DOI: 1603-162610.1007/s13524-017-0600-4.
Bowne, J. B., Magnuson, K. A., Schindler, H. S., Duncan, G. J., & Yoshikawa, H. (forthcoming, 2017). A Meta-Analysis of Class Sizes and Ratios in Early Childhood Education Programs: Are Thresholds of Quality Associated With Greater Impacts on Cognitive, Achievement, and Socioemotional Outcomes? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 0162373716689489.
McCoy, D. C., Yoshikawa, H., Ziol-Guest, K. M., Duncan, G.J., Schindler, H. S., Magnuson, K. A., Yang, R., Koepp, A. E., & Shonkoff, J. (2017). Impacts of early childhood education on medium- and long-term educational outcomes. Educational Researcher, 46(8), 474-487.
Duncan, G. J., Lee, K. T. H., Rosales-Rueda, M., & Kalil, A. (2018). Maternal age and child development. Demography, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0730-3
Duncan, G. J., Kalil, A., & Ziol-Guest, K. (2018). Parental income and children’s life course: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 680(1), 82- 96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716218801534
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Nguyen, T., & Duncan, G. J. (2018). Kindergarten components of executive function and third grade achievement: A national study. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 46, 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.05.006
Watts, T., Duncan, G., Clements, D. H., & Sarama, J. (2018). What is the long‐run impact of learning mathematics during preschool? Child Development, 89, 539-555. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12713
Kang, C., Duncan, G. J., Clements, D., Sarama, J, & Bailey, D. H. (2018). The roles of transfer of learning and forgetting in the persistence and fadeout of early childhood mathematics interventions. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000297
Bailey, D. H., Duncan, G. J., Watts, T., Clements, D., & Sarama, J. (2018). Risky business: Correlation and causation in longitudinal studies of skill development. American Psychologist, 73, 81-94.
Watts, T., Duncan, G., & Quan, H. (2018). Revisiting the marshmallow test: A conceptual replication investigating links between early gratification delay and later outcomes. Psychological Science. DOI: 10.1177/0956797618761661.
Watts, T. W., & Duncan, G. J. (2020). Controlling, Confounding, and Construct Clarity: Responding to Criticisms of “Revisiting the Marshmallow Test” by Doebel, Michaelson, and Munakata (2020) and Falk, Kosse, and Pinger (2020). Psychological Science, 31(1), 105-108.
Jenkins, J. M., Duncan, G. J., Auger, A., Bitler, M., & Domina, T. (2018). Boosting school readiness: Should preschool teachers target skills or the whole child? Economics of Education Review, 65, 107-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2018.05.001
Shaefer, H. L., Collyer, S., Duncan, G., Edin, K., Garfinkel, I., Harris, D., Smeeding, T. M., Waldfogel, J., Wimer, C., & Yoshikawa, H. (2018). A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability Among Children in the United States. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(2), 22-42.
Jenkins, J. M., Watts, T. W., Magnuson, K., Gershoff, E. T., Clements, D. H., Sarama, J., & Duncan, G. J. (2018). Do High-Quality Kindergarten and First-Grade Classrooms Mitigate Preschool Fadeout? Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 11(3), 339-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/19345747.2018.1441347
Joo, Y. S., Magnuson, K., Duncan, G. J., Schindler, H. S., Yoshikawa, H., & Ziol-Guest, K. M. (2020). What Works in Early Childhood Education Programs?: A Meta–Analysis of Preschool Enhancement Programs. Early Education and Development.
Duncan, G., Magnuson, K., Murnane, R., & Votruba‐Drzal, E. (2019). Income Inequality and the Well‐Being of American Families. Family Relations, 68(3), 313-325.
Fuller, B., Kim, Y., Galindo, C., Bathia, S., Bridges, M., Duncan, G. J., & García Valdivia, I. (2019). Worsening School Segregation for Latino Children? Educational Researcher, 0013189X19860814.
Rojas, N. M., Yoshikawa, H., Gennetian, L., Lemus Rangel, M., Melvin, S., Noble, K., Duncan, G. & Magunson, K. (2020). Exploring the experiences and dynamics of an unconditional cash transfer for low-income mothers: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Children and Poverty, 26(1), 64-84.
Bailey, D. H., Duncan, G. J., Cunha, F., Foorman, B. R., & Yeager, D. S. (forthcoming). Persistence and Fadeout of Educational Intervention Effects: Mechanisms and Potential Solutions. Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Books
Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Volumes III-VIII, X (co-edited with James N. 17 Greg J. Duncan
Morgan), Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1974-1980, 1982.
The Economics of Personal Choice (secondary author, with James N. Morgan), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1980.
Making Your Choices Count (secondary author, with James N. Morgan), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982.
Years of Poverty, Years of Plenty: The Changing Economic Fortunes of American Workers and Families (principal author, with Richard D. Coe, Mary E. Corcoran, Martha S. Hill, Saul Hoffman and James N. Morgan), Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1984.
Panel Surveys (co-editor with Graham Kalton, Daniel Kasprzyk and M.P. Singh), New York: John Wiley, 1989.
The Consequences of Growing Up Poor, (co-editor with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), New York: Russell Sage, 1997.
Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, (co-editor with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and J. Lawrence Aber), Volumes I and II, New York: Russell Sage, 1997.
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (committee member and primary author of two report chapters), Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah Phillips, (eds.), Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.
For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families (co-editor, with Lindsay Chase- Lansdale) New York: Russell Sage, 2001.
Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform (co-editor, with Bruce Weber and Leslie Whitener) Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2002.
Children’s Health, the Nation’s Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health (committee co-chair, with Ruth Stein), Committee on Evaluation of Children’s Health, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2004.
Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children (with Aletha Huston and Tom Weisner), New York: Russell Sage, 2007. This book was awarded the Richard A. Lester Prize by the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations published in 2007.
The National Children's Study Research Plan: A Review (committee member of Panel to Review the National Children's Study Research Plan, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine), Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 2008.
Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances, (co-editor, with Richard Murnane), New York: Russell Sage, 2011.
Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century (member of Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills, National Research Council), Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 2012.
Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education (with Richard D. Murnane), Harvard Education Press and Russell Sage Press, 2014. See also material on the book’s website: restoringopportunity.com
The National Children’s Study 2014: An Assessment (committee chair and co-editor, with Nancy Kirkendall and Constance Citro), Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 2014.
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Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8. (member of Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children), National Academies Press, 2016.
Supporting Students' College Success: The Role of Assessment of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Competencies. (member of the Committee on Assessing Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Competencies), National Academies Press, 2017.
A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty. (committee chair and co-editor, with Suzanne LeMenestral, of Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine .Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2019.
Chapters in Books
(Note: All multiple-author listings are equal authorship unless noted otherwise; names of supervised graduate student authors are italicized)
"Educational Attainment," in James N. Morgan, et al., Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. I. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1974.
"Modal Choice in Child Care Arrangements for Working Mothers" (with C. Russell Hill); "Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, and Economic Outcomes: A Structural Equations Approach" (with Daniel H. Hill); and "Some Equity Aspects of Gasoline Price Inflation," in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. III. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1975.
"Introduction, Overview, Summary, and Conclusions" (with James N. Morgan); and "Unmarried Heads of Households and Marriage", in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. IV. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1975.
"An Overview of Change in the Economic Status of Families," in R. Curtin (ed.), Surveys of Consumers 1974-75: Contributions to Behavioral Economics. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1976.
"Labor Market Discrimination and Nonpecuniary Work Rewards," in F.T. Juster, (ed.), The Distribution of Economic Well-being. NBER Studies in Income And Wealth, No. 41, Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1977.
"An Overview of Part I Findings" (with James N. Morgan); "Paths to Economic Well-Being"; and "The Child Care Mode Choice of Working Mothers" (with C. Russell Hill), in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. V. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1977.
"A Summary of Part I Findings" (with Mary Corcoran); and "Training and Earnings" (with Saul D. Hoffman), in Duncan and Morgan (eds.) Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic progress Vol. VI. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1978.
"College Quality and Earnings" (with James N. Morgan), in I. Sirageldin (ed.), Research in Human Capital and Development, Vol. I. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1979.
"An Empirical Model of Wage Growth," in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. VII. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1979.
"The Use of Time and Technology of Households in the United States" (secondary author, with Frank P. Stafford), in R.G. Ehrenberg (ed.), Research in Labor Economics, Vol.III, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980. Reprinted in F.T. Juster and F.P. Stafford (eds.) Time, Goods and Well-being. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1985. 19 Greg J. Duncan
"Information and Influence Networks in Labor Markets" (with Mary Corcoran and Linda Datcher); and "The Incidence and Some Consequences of Major Life Events" (with James N. Morgan), in Duncan and Morgan (eds.) Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. VIII. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1980.
"Persistence and Change in Economic Status and the Role of Changing Family Composition" (with James N. Morgan), in Hill, Hill and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families--Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. IX. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1981.
"Disentangling the Efficacy-Earnings Relationship" (with Jeffrey K. Liker); and "Work Experience and Wage Growth of Women Workers" (with Mary Corcoran and Michael Ponza), in Duncan and Morgan (eds.), Five Thousand American Families-Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. X. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1983.
"The Implications of Changing Family Composition for the Dynamic Analysis of Family Economic Well-being," in A.B. Atkinson and F.A. Cowell (eds.), Panel Data on Incomes, London: London School of Economics, 1983.
"Work Experience, Job Segregation, and Wages" (with Mary Corcoran and Michael Ponza), in Barbara F. Reskin (ed.), Sex Segregation in the Workplace: Trends, Explanations, Remedies, National Academy Press, 1984.
"The Role of Panel Studies in a World of Scarce Resources" (primary author, with James N. Morgan and F. Thomas Juster), in Seymour Sudman and Mary A. Spaeth (eds.), The Collection and Analysis of Economic and Consumer Behavior Data, Champaign, IL: Bureau of Economic and Business Research, 1984, pp. 301-328. Reprinted in R.W. Pearson and R.F. Boruch (eds.) Survey Research Design: Toward a Better Understanding of Their Costs and Benefits, Lecture Notes in Statistics, Vol. 38, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986.
"Income Dynamics and Self-Conceptions: Linking Theory and Method in Models of Change" (with Sue Augustyniak and Jeffrey K. Liker), in Glen Elder (ed.) Life Course Dynamics from 1968-1980, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.
"Economic Consequences of Marital Instability" (with Saul D. Hoffman), in Martin David and Timothy Smeeding (eds.), Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty and Well-being, NBER Income and Wealth Conference volume, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
"Experience with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (secondary author, with James N. Morgan), in G. Orcutt, J. Merz and H. Quinke (eds.), Microanalytic Simulation Models to Support Social and Financial Policy, Amsterdam: North Holland, 1986.
"The Volatility of Family Income Over the Life Course," in P. Baltes, D. Featherman, and Richard M. Lerner (eds.), Life-Span Development and Behavior, Vol. 9, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988, pp. 317-358.
"Life Events, Public Policy and the Economic Vulnerability of Children and the Elderly" (with Richard Burkhauser), in J. Palmer, T. Smeeding and B. Torrey (eds.) The Vulnerable Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1988.
"The Persistence of Urban Poverty" (with Terry Adams and Willard Rodgers), in F. Harris and R. Wilkins (eds.) Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States. New York: Pantheon, 1988, pp.78-99.
"Measurement Error in Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Surveys: Validation Study Evidence" (with John Bound, Charles Brown and Willard Rodgers), in J. Hartog, G. Ridder and J. Tieuwes (eds.) Panel Data and Labor Market Studies, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990, pp. 1-19.
"Data Base Management Approaches to Household Panel Studies" (secondary author, with Peter Solenberger and Marita Servais), in D. Kasprzyk, G. Duncan, G. Kalton and M.P. Singh (eds.) Panel Surveys, New York: John Wiley, 1989, pp. 190-225. 20 Greg J. Duncan
"The Rising Affluence of the Elderly; How Far, How Fair, and How Frail?" (with Ken R. Smith), Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 15, Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews Inc., 1989, pp. 261-289.
"Lone-Parent Families and Their Economic Problems: Persistent or Transitory?" (with Willard Rodgers), in Betty Duskin (ed.) Lone Parents: The Economic Challenge Paris: OECD, 1990, pp. 43-68.
"Teenage Underclass Behavior and Subsequent Poverty: Have the Rules Changed?" (with Saul Hoffman), in Christopher Jencks and Paul Peterson (eds.) The Urban Underclass, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1991, pp. 155-174.
"The Economic Environment of Childhood," in Aletha Huston (ed.) Children in Poverty, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
"Long-Term Poverty in Nonmetropolitan Areas" (with Terry Adams), in Cynthia Duncan (ed.) Rural Poverty In America, New York: Auburn House, 1992.
"Economic Poverty: Causes and Effects," in Paul Parker (ed.) Standing With the Poor: Theological Reflections on Economic Reality, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1992.
"W(h)ither the Middle Class?: A Dynamic View," (with Willard Rodgers and Timothy Smeeding), in Dimitri Papadimitriou and Edward Wolff (eds.) Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century, London: MacMillan, pp. 240-271, 1993.
"Poverty and Social-Assistance Dynamics in the United States, Canada and Western Europe" (primary author, with Bjorn Gustafsson, Richard Hauser, Guenther Schmaus, Stephen Jenkins, Hans Messinger, Ruud Muffels, Brian Nolan, Jean-Claude Ray, and Wolfgang Voges), in Katherine McFate, Roger Lawson and William J. Wilson (ed.) Poverty, Inequality and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order. New York: Russell Sage, 1995, pp. 67-108.
"Child Development in the Context of Family and Community Resources: An Agenda for National Data Collection" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Brett Brown and Kristin Moore) in Integrating Federal Statistics on Children, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1995.
"How Nonmarital Childbearing is Affected by Neighborhoods, Marital Opportunities and Labor-Market Conditions" in Report to Congress on Out-Of-Wedlock Childbearing, DHHS Pub. No. (PHS) 95-1257, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, September, 1995, pp. 177-189.
"Toward an Understanding of the Effects of Poverty Upon Children" (secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Pamela Klebanov and Fong-ruey Liaw) in H.E. Fitzgerald, B.M. Lester and B. Zuckerman (Eds.) Children of Poverty: Research, Health Care and Policy Issues, New York: Garland Press.
"Welfare Reform and Employment: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know" in B. Weisbrod and J. Worthy (eds.) Dealing with the Urban Crisis: Linking Research to Action, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997, 11-32.
"The Timing of Early Home Leaving" (with Martha Hill and Wei-Jun J. Yeung) in J. Graber and J. Dubas (eds.) Leaving Home, New Directions in Child Development Series, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
“Poor Families, Poor Outcomes” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Nancy Maritato), in The Consequences of Growing Up Poor, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 1-17.
"The Effects of Parental Income, Assets and Good Intentions on Children's Adult Attainments" (with William Axinn and Arland Thornton), in The Consequences of Growing Up Poor, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 518-540. 21 Greg J. Duncan
“Income Effects Across the Life Span: Integration and Interpretation” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) in The Consequences of Growing Up Poor, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 596-610.
"Neighborhood Models and Measures" (with J. Lawrence Aber), in Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Vol. I, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber (eds.), New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 62-78.
"Household Panel Surveys: Prospects and Problems" in D. Rose (ed.) Household Panel Studies: Methods and Substance. London: University College London Press, 1997.
"Neighborhood and Family Factors Predicting Educational Risk and Attainment in African-American and European- American Children and Adolescents" (secondary author, with Bonnie Halpern-Felsher and others), in Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Vol. I, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber (eds.), New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 146-173.
"Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Estimating Causal Effects of Neighborhood and Family Conditions on Individual Development" (with James Connell and Pamela Klebanov), in Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Vol. 1, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber (eds.), New York: Russell Sage, 1997, 219-250.
"Lessons Learned and Future Directions for Research on Communities and Neighborhoods" (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and J. Lawrence Aber) in Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Vol. 1, co-edited with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber, New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 279-298.
“Longitudinal Indicators of Children’s Poverty and Dependency” (with Leslie Moscow) in Indicators of Children’s Well- Being, Robert Hauser, Brett Brown and William Prosser (eds.), New York: Russell Sage, 1997, pp. 258-278.
“Urban Poverty, Welfare Reform and Child Development” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Locked In The Poorhouse: Cities, Race, And Poverty In The U.S. Fred Harris and Lynn Curtis and (eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, pp. 21-32.
“No Pain, No Gain? Inequality and Economic Mobility in the United States, Canada, and Europe” (primary author, with Bjorn Gustafsson, Richard Hauser, Kjell Jansson, Ilari Keso, Guenther Schmauss, Hans Messinger, Ruud Muffels, Brian Nolan, Jean-Claude Ray, and Willard Rodgers) Poverty and Economic Inequality in Industrialized Western Societies Nico Keilman, Jan Lyngstad, Hilde Bojer and Ib Thomsen (eds.) Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1998, pp. 257-275.
"Family Background, Parenting Practices, and the Black-White Test Score Gap” (with Meredith Phillips, Jeanne Brooks- Gunn, Pamela Klebanov and Jonathan Crane) in Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (Eds.) The Black- White Test Score Gap Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute, 1998, pp. 103-145.
"Are SES Gradients for Children Similar to those for Adults? Achievement and Health of Children in the United States" (secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pia Rebello) in Daniel P. Keating and Clyde Hertzman (eds.) Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations, New York: Guilford Publications, 1999, pp. 94-124.
"A Simple Method for Weighting in Household Panel Surveys" in Wolfgang Voges (ed.) Dynamic Approaches to Comparative Social Research: Recent Developments and Applications, London: Avebury Publishers, 1999.
“Welfare Dynamics and Welfare Reform” (with Gretchen Caspary) in Lawrence B. Joseph (ed.) Families, Poverty and Welfare Reform, Chicago: The Chicago Assembly, 1999, pp. 145-167.
“Why Poverty Matters for Young Children: Implications for Policy” (secondary author, with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Tama Leventhal) in J.D. Osofsky & H. E. Fitzgerald (Eds.) WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health (Volume 22 Greg J. Duncan
3: Parenting and Child Care), New York: Wiley, 2000, pp. 92-130.
“Using Household Panel Studies to Understand Household Behaviour and Well-Being” in David Rose (ed.) Researching Social and Economic Change: The Uses of Household Panel Studies, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 54-75.
"The Impact of Divergent Income Dynamics on Mortality in the U.S." (secondary author, with Peggy McDonough, David Williams and James House). In Giovanni Cornia and Renato Paniccia (eds.), The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 392-409.
"Neighborhoods And Adolescent Development: How Can We Determine The Links?" (with Stephen Raudenbush), in Alan Booth and Ann C. Crouter (eds.) Does it Take a Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, pp. 105-136. “Getting Context Right in Studies of Child Development” (with Stephen Raudenbush), in Arland Thornton (ed.) The Well-Being of Children and Families: Research and Data Needs. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001, pp. 356-383. “Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Children’s Achievement” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) In Bruce Biddle (ed.), Social Class, Poverty and Education: Policy and Practice, New York: Routledge-Falmer, 2001, pp. 49-76.
“Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being” (with Lindsay Chase-Lansdale), in Rebecca Blank and Ron T. Haskins (eds.) The New World of Welfare, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001, pp. 391-417.
“How Different Are Welfare and Working Families? And Do These Differences Matter for Children’s Achievement?” (with Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran and W. Jean Yeung) in Greg J. Duncan and Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (eds.) For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families New York: Russell Sage, 2001, pp. 103-131.
“Introduction” (pp. 3-8) and “Lessons Learned” (pp. 307-322) (both with Lindsay Chase-Lansdale) in Greg J. Duncan and Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (eds.) For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families. New York: Russell Sage, 2001.
“Panel Studies, Uses and Applications” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes (eds.) Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2001.
“Which Welfare Reforms Are Best for Children?” (with Pamela Morris) in Isabell Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver, Ron Haskins and Andrea Kane (eds.) Welfare Reform and Beyond: The Future of the Safety Net, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2002, pp. 71-78.
“Parents in Poverty” (with Katherine Magnuson). In Marc Bornstein (ed). Handbook of Parenting 2nd Edition, Vol. 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, pp. 95-121.
“The PSID and Me” in Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Anne Colby (eds.) Landmark Studies of the 20th Century in the US, New York: Russell Sage, 2002, pp. 133-163.
“Low Income (Poverty) During Prenatal and Early Postnatal Periods and Its Impact on Psychosocial Child Development” (with Katherine A. Magnuson) In Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development. Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development Web site, 2002, http://www.excellence- earlychildhood.ca/cex_info.asp?lang=EN&info=6 “Off With Hollingshead” (with Katherine Magnuson) in Marc H. Bornstein and Robert H. Bradley (eds.) Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, pp. 83-106. “Evolution and Change in Family Income, Wealth and Health: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968-2000 and Beyond” in James S.House, F. Thomas Juster, Robert L. Kahn, Howard Schuman, and Eleanor Singer
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(eds.) Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003.
"Welfare-to-Work Initiatives" (secondary author, with Christy Brady Smith, Martha Zaslow, Tama Leventhal and Kerry Richter) in Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Allison Sidle Fuligni and Lisa J. Berlin (eds.) Early Childhood Development in the 21st Century, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp.225-278.
“Promoting the Healthy Development of Young Children” (with Katherine Magnuson) in Isabelle Sawhill (ed.) One Percent for Kids, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2003, pp. 16-39.
"MTO’s Effects on Children and Parents: Evidence from Baltimore” (with Jens Ludwig and Helen Ladd) in John Goering and Judith D. Feins (eds.) Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 2003, pp. 153-175
"The Long-Term Impact of Parental Organization and Efficiency" (with Rachel Dunifon and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn in A. Kalil & T. DeLeire (eds). Family Investments in Children: Resources and Behaviors that Promote Success. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004, pp. 85-118.
“Parent- vs. Child-Based Intervention Strategies For Promoting Children’s Wellbeing” (with Katherine Magnuson) in A. Kalil & T. DeLeire (eds). Family Investments in Children: Resources and Behaviors that Promote Success. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004, pp. 209-236.
“Qualitative/Quantitative Synergies in a Random-Assignment Program Evaluation” (with Christina Gibson) in Thomas S. Weisner (ed.) Discovering Successful Pathways In Children's Development: New Methods In The Study Of Childhood And Family Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 283-303.
“Individual and Parent-based Intervention Strategies for Promoting Human Capital and Positive Behavior“ (with Katherine Magnuson) In P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan and Ruth Friedman, (eds.) Human Development Across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“The Contribution of Middle Childhood Contexts to Adolescent Achievement and Behavior” (with Katherine Magnuson and Ariel Kalil) in Aletha C. Huston and Marika H. Ripke (Eds.) Developmental Context of Middle Childhood: Bridges to Adolescence and Adulthood. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming in 2006).
“The Apple Does Not Fall From the Tree” (with Ariel Kalil, Susan Mayer, Robin Tepper and Monique Payne) in Melissa Osborne, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (eds.) Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, New York: Russell Sage, 2005.
“Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being” in Glen Elder and Warner Schaie (eds.) Historical Influences on Lives and Aging, New York: Springer, 2005, pp. 286-298.
“Costs and Benefits from Early Investments to Promote Human Capital and Positive Behavior (with Katherine Magnuson) in Norman Watt, Catherine Ayoub, Robert Bradley, Jini Puma and Whitney LeBoeuf (eds), The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs, Vol. 4, Westport, CN: Praeger, 2006, pp. 27-51.
“Promising Solutions in Housing and the Community” (with Jens Ludwig) in Kenneth Dodge and Thomas Dishion (eds.) Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth: Problems and Solutions, Guilford Press, 2006, pp. 312-327.
“Residential Mobility Interventions as Treatments for the Sequelae of Neighborhood Violence” (with Elizabeth Clark- Kauffman and Emily Snell), in Alicia Lieberman and Robert DeMartino (eds.) Interventions for Children Exposed to Violence, Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute, 2006, pp. 237-270.
“Income and Child Well-Being” 2005 Geary Lecture, Dublin, Ireland: The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2006. 24 Greg J. Duncan
“Can Society Profit From Investing In Early Education Programs?” (with Katherine Magnuson), in Alvin Tarlov (ed.), Nurturing the National Treasure: Childhood Education and Development Before Kindergarten, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 177-188.
“How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent School Performance: Investigating Pathways of Influence with Experimental Data” (with Pamela Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Aletha Huston) in Welfare Reform and its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor, James P. Ziliak (ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 255-289.
“Parental Pathways to Self-Sufficiency and the Well-Being of Younger Children” (with Pamela Morris and Lisa A. Gennetian), in Making the Work-based Safety Net Work Better: Forward-looking Policies to Help Low-Income Families, Carolyn Heinrich and John Karl Scholz (eds.), Russell Sage, New York, 2009, pp. 117-148.
“Child Development” (with Jens Ludwig and Katherine Magnuson) in Phillip Levine and David Zimmerman (eds.) Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010, pp. 27-58.
Duncan, G. and Murnane, R. “Introduction” in Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane (eds.), Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances, New York: Russell Sage, 2011, pp. 3-23.
Duncan, G. and Magnuson, K. “The Nature and Impact of Early Achievement Skills, Attention Skills, and Behavior Problems”, in Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane (eds.), Whither Opportunity: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances, New York: Russell Sage, 2011, pp. 47-69.
Duncan, G. “The Importance of Kindergarten-Entry Academic Skills” in The Preschool Education Debates: Current Issues and Controversies, Edward Zigler, Walter Gilliam and Steven Barnett (eds.), Baltimore: Brookes, 2011, pp. 89-93.
Duncan, G., Telle, K., Ziol-Guest, K. and Kalil, A. “Economic Deprivation in Early Childhood and Adult Outcomes: Comparative Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data and the U.S. PSID” (with Kjetil Telle, Kathleen M. Ziol- Guest and Ariel Kalil), in Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson and Markus Jantii (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, New York: Russell Sage, 2011, pp. 209- 234.
Duncan, G. J., Bergman, L., Duckworth, K., Kokko, K., Lyyra, A. L., Metzger, M., ... & Simonton, S. (2012). The Role Of Child Skills And Behaviors In The Intergenerational Transmission Of Inequality: A Cross-National Study. In John Ermisch, Markus Jantti and Timothy Smeeding (eds). From Parents To Children: The Intergenerational Transmission Of Advantage, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 207-234.
DeLuca, S., Duncan, G., Keels, M., and Mendenhall, R. “The Notable and the Null: Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Diverse Impacts of Residential Mobility Programs” in van Ham, Maarten, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, and Duncan Maclennan. Neighbourhood effects research: new perspectives. Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp. 195-223.
Duncan, G. “Methods in Multi-site Trials of Family-based Interventions” In S. M. McHale et al. (eds.), Emerging Methods in Family Research, Amsterdam: Springer, 2013. pp. 245-260.
Duncan, G. and Magnuson, K. “The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty” (with Katherine Magnuson), in Wei-Jun Jean Yeung and Yap Mui-Teng (Eds.) Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Research and Policy Challenges, Amsterdam: Springer, 2013, pp. 57-70.
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Duncan, G., Dowsett, C. and Lawrence, J. “Early Math and Literacy Skills: Key Predictors of Later School Success” in Susan H. Landry and Cary L. Cooper (eds.) Wellbeing in Children and Families: Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume 1, New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 55-72.
Duncan, G. and Murnane, R. “Rising Inequality and the School Performance of Low and High-Income Children” (with Richard J. Murnane) in Kathleen McCartney, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Laurie Forcier (eds.) Framing the Future for America's Children: In honor of 40 years of the Children's Defense Fund, Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2014, pp. 121-132.
Duncan, G., Magnuson, K. and Votruba-Drzal, E. “Children and Socioeconomic Status” in Marc H. Bornstein and Tama Leventhal (eds.) Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Volume 4: Ecological Settings and Processes in Developmental Systems, New York: Wiley, 2015, pp. 534-573.
Kalil, A., Duncan, G., & Ziol-Guest, K. (2016). Early childhood poverty: Short and long-run consequences over the lifespan. In Shanahan, M., Mortimer, J., & Kirkpatrick Johnson, M. (Eds.).Handbook of the Lifecourse, Vol II (pp. 341-354). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20880-0.
Huston, A. C., Duncan, G. J., & Yoshikawa, H. (2016). Mixed Methods in the Science of Understanding Antipoverty Policies for Families with Children: Four Case Studies. Methods That Matter: Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research, 329.
Other Articles
"Going Beyond Current Income" (with F. Thomas Juster), American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 18, No. 3, January/February, 1975, pp. 369-86; also in Biderman and Drury (eds.), Measuring Work Quality for Social Reporting. New York: John Wiley, 1976.
"Longitudinal Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (with James N. Morgan), Review of Public Data Use, 10, 1982, pp. 179-184.
"Who Gets Ahead?...And Who Gets Left Behind?" American Demographics, 4, No. 7, July/August, 1982, pp. 38-41.
"Statistical Computing in a Survey Research Setting" (with James Lepkowski), Professional Statistician, 3, No.7, August/September 1984, pp. 12-16.
"Behavioral Research with the PSID in Retrospect and Prospect" (with James N. Morgan), Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, 4, 1984, pp. 415-427.
"A Framework for Tracking Family Relations Over Time," Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 13, Nos. 3 and 4, December, 1985, pp. 237-244.
"The Changing Fortunes of Young and Old" (with Martha Hill and Willard Rodgers), American Demographics, 8, No. 8, August, 1986, pp. 26-33.
"Welfare Dynamics and the Nature of Need" (with Saul Hoffman), Cato Journal, 6, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1986, pp. 31-54.
"On the Slippery Slope," American Demographics, 9, No. 5, May 1987, pp. 30-35; also in Managers Magazine, December, 1987 and Sources in Economics: Readings in Free Enterprise, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
"Badania Dynamiki Dochodow Rodin Amerykanskich (The American Panel Study of Income Dynamics)" (with James N. Morgan), Economista 18, Nos. 3-4, pp. 745-770.
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"La Dinamica de la Pobreza (The Dynamics of Poverty)," Revista de Economia, No. 686, October 1990, pp. 23-47.
"Closing the Gap: Metro-Nonmetro Differences in Long-term Poverty Among Blacks" (with Terry K. Adams), Rural Development Perspectives, 7, No. 2, February-May 1992, pp. 2-6.
"The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class," (with Timothy Smeeding and Willard Rodgers) American Demographics, Vol. 14, No. 5, May, 1992, pp. 34-38.
"Job Losses Among Hispanic and Anglos in the Recent Recession," (with Johanne Boisjoly), Monthly Labor Review, June, 1994.
"Poverty and Adolescents," (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), Vision 2010: Families and Adolescents, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1994, pp. 16-17.
Welfare’s New Rules: A Pox on Children” (with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn) Issues In Science and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter 1997-1998, pp. 67-72.
“Family Structure, Poverty and Family Well-Being” Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Volume 10, Number 1, 2006, pp. 9-45.
“New Kids on the Block: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment” (with Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jeffrey Kling and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), Education Next, Fall 2007, pp. 61-67
“High Quality Preschool as Anti-Poverty” American Prospect, May 2007, pp. 20-21.
“New Hope: Fulfilling America’s Promise to “Make Work Pay” (with Hans Bos, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Heather D. Hill), Hamilton Project, The Brookings Institution, December 2007.
Commentary on “Breslau J, Miller E, Breslau N, et al. The impact of early behavior disturbances on academic achievement in high school. Pediatrics 2009;123:1472–6” in Evidence Based Mental Health 2010;13:1 9 doi:10.1136/ebmh.13.1.9
“The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty” (with Katherine Magnuson), Pathways: A Magazine on Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy, Winter, 2011, pp.22-27.
“The Long-Term Effects of Moving to Opportunity on Adult Health and Economic Self-Sufficiency” (with Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jordan Marvakov, Nicholas A. Potter, Fanghua Yang, Emma Adam, William J. Congdon, Lisa A. Gennetian, Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, Ronald C. Kessler, Stacy Tessler Lindau, Jens Ludwig, and Thomas W. McDade) CityScape, Volume 14 Number 2, 2012.
“The Long-Term Effects of Moving to Opportunity on Youth Outcomes” (with Lisa A. Gennetian, Matthew Sciandra, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jens Ludwig, Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Ronald C. Kessler) CityScape, Volume 14, Number 2, 2012.
Research Reports
"Motivation and Economic Mobility of the Poor" (with others), Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1985.
"A Validation Study of Economic Survey Data" (with Nancy Mathiowetz and others), Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 1985.
"The Persistence of Urban Poverty and its Demographic and Behavioral Correlates" (with Terry K. Adams), Ann Arbor: 27 Greg J. Duncan
Survey Research Center, 1988.
“New Hope for People with Low Incomes: Two-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare” (with Hans Bos, Aletha Huston, Robert Granger, Tom Brock and Vonnie McLoyd) New York: MDRC, 1999.
“How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children: A Synthesis of Research” (with Pamela Morris, Aletha Huston, Danielle Crosby and Johannes Bos) New York: MDRC, 2001.
“How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents: A Synthesis of Research” (with Lisa A. Gennetian, Virginia W. Knox, Wanda G. Vargas, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Andrew S. London) New York: MDRC, 2002.
“New Hope for Families and Children Five-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare” (with Aletha C. Huston, Cynthia Miller, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Carolyn A. Eldred, Thomas S. Weisner, Edward Lowe, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Danielle A. Crosby, Marika N. Ripke, Cindy Redcross) New York: MDRC, 2003.
“The Economic Costs Of Poverty In The United States: Subsequent Effects Of Children Growing Up Poor” (with Harry J. Holzer, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Jens Ludwig) Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., 2007.
“A Science-Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: Using Evidence to Improve Outcomes in Learning, Behavior, and Health for Vulnerable Children” National Forum on Early Childhood Evaluation, August, 2007.
“Economic Costs of Early Childhood Poverty” (with Ariel Kalil and Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest) Report to Pew Charitable Trusts, January, 2008.
“New Hope’s Eight-Year Impacts on Employment and Family Income” (with Cynthia Miller, Amy Classens, Mimi Engel, Heather Hill, and Constance Lindsay), New York: MDRC, 2008.
Dissertation
Nonpecuniary Work Rewards: Implications for Studies of Earnings Functions, Discrimination, and Labor Union Effects, University of Michigan, June 1974.
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