Lessons from the Moving to Opportunity Residential Mobility Experiment

Don’t miss this seminar with Greg Duncan, distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Education.

About Greg Duncan
Before joining the UCI School of Education, Duncan was at Northwestern University, where he served as the Edwina S. Tarry Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy and faculty affiliate in the Institute for Policy Research. He spent the first 25 years of his career at the University of Michigan working on and ultimately directing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data collection project. He has published extensively on issues of income distribution, child poverty and welfare dependence. He is co-author with Aletha Huston and Tom Weisner of Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children (2007) and co-editor with Lindsay Chase Lansdale of For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families (2001). With Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, he co-edited two books on neighborhood poverty and child development: Consequences of Growing up Poor (Russell Sage, 1997) and the two-volume Neighborhood Poverty (Russell Sage, 1997), which was also co-edited with Lawrence Aber. The focus of his recent research has shifted from these environmental influences to the comparative importance of the skills and behaviors developed during childhood. In particular, he has sought to understand the relative importance of early academic skills, cognitive and emotional self-regulation, and health in promoting children’s eventual success in school and the labor market. Duncan was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2007-08 and president of the Society for Research in Child Development for 2009-2011. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. 

This event is hosted by the Homelessness, Housing, and Social Environment Research Cluster at the USC School of Social Work; the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC; and the Southern California Clinical Translational Science Institute.

Seats are limited, so please RSVP.