Dear RSF,

Please join us on Wednesday, September 11 at 11:00 a.m. for a presentation by Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar Greg J. Duncan on Child Poverty: Next Steps for Research and Policy.

Duncan is Distinguished Professor at the School of Education, University of California, Irvine.  He has spent more than 30 years investigating the impact of poverty on children’s development. Trained as an economist, Duncan takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the complex dynamics of child and youth development, drawing on insights from the fields of economics, psychology, sociology, neuroscience and epidemiology. While affiliated with the University of Michigan, Duncan played a major role for 25 years in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), one of the world’s longest-running and most influential studies of human development.  He chaired the committee which recently produced the study report by the National Academy of Sciences, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty.

Duncan received a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2008 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 2001 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. In 2013, Duncan was awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for exceptional achievement in research and practice in the field of child and youth development.  In 2014 he became the Kenneth Boulding Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2015, he received the Society for Research in Child Development Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy and Practice in Child Development.

I look forward to seeing you in the library for the first seminar of the 2019-2020 year.