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Greg J. Duncan Edwina S. Tarry Professor, Education Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research 2046 Sheridan Road Room 2 Evanston, IL 60201-2937 Phone: (847) 467-1503

Biography

Greg Duncan received his PhD in economics and, prior to joining the Northwestern University faculty in 1995, spent 23 years at the University of Michigan working on and ultimately directing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics project. He directs the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Research on Poverty and is a member of the American Economics Association, the Society for Research on Child Development, the Society for Research on Adolescence, and the Association for Policy Analysis and Management.

Curriculum Vitae

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Websites

Website

Awards/Honors

2005 - Roy Geary Lecture at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland

Research/Scholarship
Education

Year		Degree		Institution
1974		PhD, Economics		University of Michigan
1970		BA, Economics		Grinnell College

Selected Publications

Duncan, G., Clark-Kauffman, E. and Snell, E. (2007). Residential Mobility Interventions as Treatments for the Sequelae of Neighborhood Violence in Alicia Lieberman and Robert DeMartino (eds.), Interventions for Children Exposed to Violence: 237-270.

DeLuca, S., Duncan, G. and Mendenhall, (December, 2006). Neighborhood Resources, Racial Segregation and Economic Mobility: Results from the Gautreaux Program. Social Science Research: 892-923.

Magnuson, K. and Duncan, G. (December, 2006). The Role of Family Socioeconomic Resources in Black and White Test Score Gaps among Young Children. Developmental Review: 365-399.

Sanbonmatsu, l., Kling, J. Duncan, G. and Brooks-Gunn, J. (November, 2006). Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment. Journal of Human Resources: 649-691.

Snell, E. and Duncan, G. (November, 2006). Child Characteristics and Successful Use of Housing Vouchers: Estimates from the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration. Housing Policy Debate: 727-754.

Duncan, G., England, P. and Wilkerson, B. (November, 2006). Cleaning Up Their Act: The Effects of Marriage and Cohabitation on Licit and Illicit Drug Use. Demography: 691-710.

Duncan, G. (November, 2006). Family Structure, Poverty and Family Well-Being. Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal: 9-45.

Duncan, G. and Gibson-Davis, C. (October, 2006). Connecting Child Care Quality to Child Outcomes: Drawing Policy Lessons from Nonexperimental Data in Evaluation Review: 1-20 .

Duncan, G. and Zuberi, A. (July, 2006). Mobility Lessons from Gautreaux and Moving to Opportunity. Journal of Law and Social Policy.

Duncan, Greg and Magnuson, K. (2006). Costs and Benefits from Early Investments to Promote Human Capital and Positive Behavior in Watt, N., Ayoub, K., Bradley, R., Puma, J., and LeBoeuf, W., The Crisis in Youth Mental Health: Critical Issues and Effective Programs: 27-51.

Duncan, G. and Ludwig, J (2006). Promising Solutions in Housing and the Community in Kenneth Dodge and Thomas Dishion (eds.) , Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth: Problems and Solutions: 312-327 .

Duncan, Greg and Magnuson, Katherine (2005). Can Family Socioeconomic Resources Account for Racial and Ethnic Test Score Gaps?. Future of Children: 35-54.

Duncan, Greg, Ludwig, Jens and Pinkston, Joshua C. (2005). Housing Mobility Programs and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. Journal of Public Economics: 131-156.

Duncan, Greg, Keels, M, DeLuca S, Mendenhall, R and Rosenbaum, J (2005). Fifteen Years Later: Can Residential Mobility Programs Provide A Long-Term Escape from Neighborhood Segregation, Crime and Poverty?. Demography.

Duncan, Greg, Boisjoly, J., Kremer, M., Levy, D.M., Eccles, J. (2005). Peer Effects in Drug Use and Sex among College Students. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology: 375-385.

Duncan, Greg, Morris, P., Gennetian, L. (2005). Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children: New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s. Social Policy Report.

Duncan, Greg, Gibson, C., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L. (2005). Employment and the Risk of Domestic Abuse Among Low-Income Women. Journal of Marriage and the Family: 1149-1168.

Duncan, Greg and Gibson, C. (2005). Qualitative/Quantitative Synergies in a Random-Assignment Program Evaluation in Weisner, Thomas S. , Discovering Successful Pathways In Children's Development: New Methods In The Study Of Childhood And Family Life: 283-303.

Duncan, Greg, Kalil A., Mayer, S. (2005). The Apple Does Not Fall From the Tree in Osborne, M. Bowles, S., Gintis, H., Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success.

Duncan, Greg (2005). Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being in Elder, G. and Schaie, W., Historical Influences on Lives and Aging.

Duncan, G.J. & Chase-Lansdale, L. (Eds.) (2002). For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families. New York: Russell Sage.

Duncan, G.J., Lundwig, J., & Hirschfield, P. (2001). Urban poverty and juvenile crime: Evidence from a randomized housing-mobility experiment. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 116, No. 2.

Duncan, G.J., Raudenbush, S. (2001). Neighborhoods and adolescent development: How can we determine the links? in Booth, Alan, & Crouter, Ann C. (Eds.), Does it Take a Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families: 105-136.

Duncan, G.J. (committee member and primary author of two report chapters),Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah Phillips (Eds.) (2000). From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Duncan, G.J., Yeung, J, & Hill, M. (2000). Putting fathers back into the picture: Parental activities and children's adult outcomes. Marriage and Family Review, Vol. 29, No. 2/3, Part I: 97–113.

Selected Presentations

Duncan, G. (November, 2007). “School Readiness and Later Achievement” . UCLA Demography Seminar. Los Angeles, CA.

Duncan, G. (September, 2007). “School Readiness and Later Achievement”. University of North Carolina . Chapel Hill, NC.

Duncan, G. (August, 2007). “Design Issues with Early Interventions” . University College Dublin. Dublin, Ireland.

Duncan, G. (February, 2007). “Race and Class in Contemporary America". Panel Discussion at the Women’s Center, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.

Duncan, G. (December, 2006). “Family Income and Child Achievement”. Federal Reserve Bank seminar. Chicago, IL.

Duncan, G. (November, 2006). “Family Economic Policies: Which Ones Raise Children’s Achievement?,” . IPR Briefing. Chicago, IL.

Duncan, G. (October, 2006). “Preschool Interventions” . Princeton Conference of the Future of Children. Princeton, NJ.

Duncan, G. (September, 2006). “School Readiness and Later Achievement” . University of Virginia. Charlotesville, VA.

Duncan, G. (September, 2006). “Peer Effects Among College Roommates”. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC.

Duncan, G. (August, 2006). “Neighborhood Lessons from Gautreaux and MTO” . MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. Aspen, CO.

Duncan, G. (June, 2006). “School Readiness and Later Achievement” . Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Workshop. Madison, WI.

Duncan, G. (June, 2006). “School Readiness and Later Achievement”. National Head Start Conferences. Washington, D.C..

Duncan, G. (May, 2006). “Family Economic Policies: Which Ones Raise Children’s Achievement?,”. Congressional Briefing. Washington, D.C..

Duncan, G. (April, 2006). “Neighborhood Research with Gautreaux and MTO” . University of Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, CO.

Duncan, G. (April, 2006). “New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children”. University of Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, CO.

Duncan, G. (April, 2006). “Preschool Interventions”. Brookings Institution. Washington, D.C..

Duncan, G. (April, 2006). “School Readiness and Later Achievement” . University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.

Duncan, G. (March, 2006). “Early Interventions and Child Well-Being” . UNESCO. Kingston, Jamaica.

Duncan, G. (February, 2006). “New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children” . Brady Foundation        . Milwaukee, WI.

Duncan, G. (2006). “Income and Child Well-Being. 2005 Geary Lecture, Dublin, Ireland: The Economic and Social Research Institute. Ireland.

Duncan, G. (December, 2005). Income and Child Development.

Duncan, G. (November, 2005). Peer Effects on Drug Use Among College Students. Washington, D.C..

Duncan, G. (October, 2005). What is School Readiness?. Evanston.

Duncan, G. (October, 2005). Commentary on Ludwig and Mayer.

Duncan, G. (October, 2005). Lessons from the Gautreaux Residential Mobility Program. Chicago.

Duncan, G. (September, 2005). Promoting Work and Helping Children: A Case Study of New Hope.

Duncan, G. (September, 2005). Comments on Mixed Methods Papers.

Duncan, G. (August, 2005). Income, Work and Child Well-Being: The Case of New Hope.

Duncan, G. (June, 2005). Residential Mobility and Health. Evanston.

Duncan, G. (June, 2005). Lessons from Mixed-Methods Research. Ann Arbor.

Duncan, G. (May, 2005). Empathy or Antipathy: The Effects of Diversity. New York.

Duncan, G. (April, 2005). The Neuroscience and Economics of Early Child Development: Discussion. Atlanta.

Duncan, G. (April, 2005). What is School Readiness?. Atlanta.

Duncan, G. (March, 2005). Empathy or Antipathy: the Impact of Diversity.

Duncan, G. (March, 2005). New Hope: A Milwaukee Story. Milwaukee.

Duncan, G. (February, 2005). Empathy or Antipathy: the Impact of Diversity.

Duncan, G. (February, 2005). Empathy or Antipathy: the Impact of Diversity.

Duncan, G. (February, 2005). Does Income Really Matter for Children’s Development?.

Duncan, G. (February, 2005). New Hope for Low-Income Families.

Projects

New Hope Project

Other Research/Scholarship

I have a half-time appointment with the Institute for Policy Research. I enjoyed a sabbatical at the Russell Sage Foundation during the 2004-5 academic year.

Research Interests

Impacts of poverty, neighborhood conditions and welfare reform on children's development; program evaluation

Teaching/Advising
Courses

HDSP 430		Economics of Social Policy Economic context for social policy (economic crisis, unemployment, poverty); household economics; labor market theory and studies; economics rationales for social policy.
HDSP 463		Regression Analys Hum Dev Res Applied Regression for Ed Research
HDSP 434		Poverty and Public Policy Contemporary issues in urban poverty, including analysis of employment training, education reform, economic development and government transfer and tax policies. The interconnected nature of institutional, economic, political and social efforts toward urban reform.
Soc Pol 330		Economics of Social Policy How economists view social policy issues.  Economic models of household decision making.  How economists account for costs and benefits of public and private programs and decisions.  Prerequisite: ECON 201, 202, or consent of instructor.

Committees (PhD)

Start		End		Name		Position		Description
				Bessie Wilkerson		Chair
				Heather Hill		Chair
				Ben Passty		Member
				Patricia Pendry		Member
				Ann Person		Member
				Emily Snell		Member

Service/Recognition
Professional Service

Year		Organization		Position		Description
2007		The Population Association of America		President
2006		Society for Research on Child Development		President
2005		Society for Research on Child Development’s Interdisciplinary task force		Co-chairman
2005		Society for Research on Child Development		Member
2005		Society for Research on Adolescence		Member
2005		Social Science and Population Studies (SPSS) Study Section, NICHD/NIA		Member
2005		Selection Committee of the W.T. Grant Young Faculty Scholars Fellowships		Member
2005		Population Association of America		Member
2005		Population Association of America		Vice-president-elect		I was elected Vice-President of the Population Association of America, the work for which begins this April.
2005		National Scientific Council on the Developing Child		Member
2005		National Advisory Committee, School of Social Work, University of Michigan		Member
2005		National Advisory Board, RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center		Member
2005		National Advisory Board, National Poverty Center		Member
2005		NAS/IOM committee on Evaluation of Children's Health		Co-chairman
2005		Midwest Economics Association		Immediate past-president		I served as President of the Midwestern Economics Association for a one-year term that ended in April.
2005		Governing Council, Society for Research on Child Development		Member
2005		Executive Session on Deviant Social Contagion		Member
2005		Association for Policy Analysis and Management		Member
2005		American Sociological Association		Member
2005		American Economics Association		Member

Editorial Boards

Year		Journal Name		Position
2006		Child Development Perspectives		Associate Editor