Greg J. Duncan is an American economist who is a Distinguished Professor of Education at
University of California, Irvine
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and an Elected Fellow of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science. He was the 2013 winner of the
Jacobs Research Prize for his research on the long-term effects of childhood poverty, primarily through his 23 years with the
Panel Study of Income Dynamics The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal panel survey of American families, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.
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as researcher and director.
His research has had broad impacts on poverty, education, and housing policy and research. One paper with biologist collaborators uncovered a direct link between cash subsidies to poor mothers and high-frequency brain activity in their infants, supporting many of his influential papers on life-long sociological effects of childhood poverty. , his 176 peer-reviewed articles had been cited in over 15,000 peer-reviewed articles, and 38 of his books (including coauthors such as
Harvard University Professor
Richard Murnane
Richard John Murnane (born 1945) is an economist and the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
He has made important contributions to our understanding of education p ...
) and articles have been cited 500+ times. In 2022, he was in the top 1% of most cited researchers in Education, anchoring the UCI Graduate School of Education which was ranked eighth in the world.
Honors
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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, 2001
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National Academy of Education
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, 2009
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National Academy of Sciences, 2010
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Population Association of America
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, President, 2008
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Society for Research in Child Development
The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) is a professional society for the field of human development, focusing specifically on child development. It is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with a membership o ...
, President, 2009-2011
References
University of California, Irvine faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American scientists
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