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Greg J. Duncan
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 465
Citations - 55765
Greg J. Duncan is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The author has an hindex of 111, co-authored 453 publications receiving 51815 citations. Previous affiliations of Greg J. Duncan include University of Chicago & University of California.
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School Readiness and Later Achievement
Greg J. Duncan,Chantelle J. Dowsett,Amy Claessens,Katherine Magnuson,Aletha C. Huston,Pamela Kato Klebanov,Linda S. Pagani,Leon Feinstein,Mimi Engel,Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,Holly R. Sexton,Kathryn Duckworth,Crista Japel +12 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the results shows that early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then attention skills, while measures of socioemotional behaviors were generally insignificant predictors of later academic performance.
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The Effects of Poverty on Children.
TL;DR: Research supports the conclusion that family income has selective but, in some instances, quite substantial effects on child and adolescent well-being and suggests that interventions during early childhood may be most important in reducing poverty's impact on children.
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Economic Deprivation and Early Childhood Development
TL;DR: It is found that family income and poverty status are powerful correlates of the cognitive development and behavior of children, even after accounting for other differences--in particular family structure and maternal schooling--between low- and high-income families.
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Do Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of neighborhood characteristics on the development of children and adolescents are estimated, using two data sets, each of which contains information gathered about individual children and the families and neighborhoods in which they reside.