Greg Duncan

Downloadable Research Papers

Determinants of child development: 

  "School readiness and later achievement"
     (download pdf)

  "Kindergarten Skills and Fifth Grade Achievement: Evidence from the ECLS-K"
     (download pdf)

  "The structure of achievement and behavior across middle childhood"
    (download pdf)

  "Evaluating the role of 'Nothing to lose': Attitudes on risky behavior in adolescence"
    (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Kathleen Mullan Harris, Johanne Boisjoly, and Greg J. Duncan. 2001. Evaluating the role of "nothing to lose" attitudes on risky behavior in adolescence. Social Forces 80(3): 1005-39.

  "Does money really matter? Estimating impacts of family income on children’s
     achievement with data from random-assignment experiments" (download pdf)

  "Modeling the impacts of child care quality on children’s preschool cognitive
     development" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
NICHD Early Child Care Research Network and Greg J. Duncan. 2003. Modeling the impacts of child-care quality on children’s preschool cognitive development. Child Development 74(5): 1454-75.

  "Child well-being in an era of welfare reform: The sensitivity of transitions in
     development to policy change" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper will be published as:
Pamela Morris, Greg J. Duncan and Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman. Child well-being in an era of welfare reform: The sensitivity of transition in development to policy change. Forthcoming in Developmental Psychology.

  "The contribution of middle childhood contexts to adolescent achievement and behavior"      (download pdf)

Methodology:

  "The endogeneity problem in developmental studies" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Magnuson, and Jens Ludwig. 2004. The endogeneity problem in developmental studies. Research in Human Development 1(1&2): 59-80.

  "Neighborhoods and adolescent development: How can we determine the links?"     (download pdf)

This paper appeared as:
Greg J. Duncan and Stephen Raudenbush, eds. 2001. Neighborhoods and adolescent development: how can we determine the links? In Does It Take a Village? Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families, ed. A. Booth and A. C. Crouter, 105-36. State College, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press.

  "Off with Hollingshead: Socioeconomic resources, parenting, and child development"
     (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Katherine Magnuson and Greg J. Duncan. 2002. Off With Hollingshead. In Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development, ed. Marc H. Bornstein and Robert H. Bradley, 83-106. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.

  "The long and short of asking questions about income, wealth and labor supply"
     (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Greg J. Duncan and Eric Petersen. 2001. The long and short of asking questions about income, wealth and labor supply. Social Science Research 30:248-63.

  "Qualitative/Quantitative Synergies in a Random-Assignment Program Evaluation"
     (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Christina Gibson and Greg J. Duncan. 2005. Qualitative/Quantitative synergies in a random-assignment program evaluation. In Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development: New Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life, ed. Thomas S. Weisner, 283-303. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  "Economics and parenting" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson. 2002. Economics and parenting. Parenting: Science and Practice 2(4): 437-50.

Peer effects:

  "Peer Effects in Drug Use and Sex Among College Students" (download pdf)

  "Empathy or Antipathy? The Impact of Diversity" (download pdf)

Residential mobility programs:

  "Neighborhoods and academic achievement: Results from the Moving to Opportunity
     Experiment" (download pdf)

  "Fifteen years later: Can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape
     from neighborhood segregation, crime, and poverty?" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Micere Keels, Stefanie DeLuca, Greg J. Duncan, Ruby Mendenhall, and James Rosenbaum. 2005. Fifteen years later: can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape from neighborhood segregation, crime and poverty? Demography 42(1): 51-73.

  "Residential mobility interventions as treatments for the sequelae of neighborhood
     violence" (download pdf)

A revised version of this chapter was published as:
Greg J. Duncan, Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman and Emily Snell. 2006. Residential mobility interventions as treatments for the sequelae of neighborhood violence. In Interventions for Children Exposed to Violence, ed. Alicia Lieberman and Robert DeMartino, 237-70. Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute.

  "Residential mobility from the client’s perspective: Participation in the Gautreaux Two
     housing mobility program" (download pdf)

Jennifer Pahsup, Kathryn Edin, Greg Duncan, and Karen Burke. 2005. Residential mobility program participation from the client’s perspective. Housing Policy Debate 16(3-4): 361-92.

Policy:

  "Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children: New Findings on Policy      Experiments Conducted in the 1990s" (download pdf)

This was published as:
Pamela Morris, Lisa Gennetian, and Greg J. Duncan. 2005. Effects of welfare and employment policies on young children: new findings on policy experiments conducted in the 1990s. Social Policy Report 19(2).

  "Policies to promote the healthy development of infants and preschoolers"
     (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson. 2003. Promoting the healthy development of young children. In One Percent for Kids, ed. Isabelle Sawhill, 16-39. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.

  "Individual and parent-based strategies for promoting human capital and positive
     behavior" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson. 2004. Individual and parent-based intervention strategies for promoting human capital and positive behavior. In Human Development Across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change, ed. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan and Ruth Friedman, 93-135. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Links to New Hope two- and five-year reports

Executive Summary
Five-year Report

  Links to Next Generation child and adolescent welfare experiment impact syntheses

Overview
Executive Summary

Health:

  "Optimal indicators of socioeconomic status for health research" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Mary Daly, Greg J. Duncan, Peggy McDonough, and David Williams. 2002. Optimal indicators of socioeconomic status for health research. American Journal of Public Health 92(7): 1151-57.

  "Cleaning up their act: the impact of marriage and cohabitation on licit and illicit
     drug use" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper will be published as:
Greg J. Duncan, Bessie Wilkerson, and Paula England. Cleaning up their act: The effects of marriage and cohabitation on licit and illicit drug use. Forthcoming in Demography.

Other:

  "The PSID and me" (download pdf)

A revised version of this paper was published as:
Greg J. Duncan. 2002. The PSID and me. In Landmark Studies of the 20th Century in the U.S., ed. Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Anne Colby, 133-63. New York: Russell Sage.