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Download full textLevy, Dan; Duncan, Greg J. – 2000
This study assessed the impact of family childhood income on completed years of schooling using fixed effects techniques to eliminate biases associated with omission of unmeasured family characteristics. It also examined the importance of timing of family income, estimating models that related years of completed schooling to average levels of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
Holzer, Harry J.; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Duncan, Greg J.; Ludwig, Jens – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2007
In this paper, we review a range of rigorous research studies that estimate the average statistical relationships between children growing up in poverty and their earnings, propensity to commit crime, and quality of health later in life. We also review estimates of the costs that crime and poor health per person impose on the economy. Then we…
Descriptors: Poverty, Crime, Economically Disadvantaged, Costs
Peer reviewedDuncan, Greg J.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the relationship between poverty and children's developmental outcomes, the effects of the timing and duration of poverty, and the effects of poverty at the family and neighborhood level, analyzing data from two longitudinal surveys. Found that poverty status was strongly related to low levels of cognitive development, even after…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Family Influence
Peer reviewedBuchel, Felix; Duncan, Greg J. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1998
Parental activities such as attending cultural events, doing volunteer work, and socializing with friends are investigated in relation to the educational attainments of children. Differences are found between fathers' and mothers' activities and their effects on the attainments of boys and girls. Alternative explanations are considered. (EMK)
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Activities, Educational Attainment, Family Influence
Peer reviewedHarris, Kathleen Mullan; Duncan, Greg J.; Boisjoly, Johanne – Social Forces, 2002
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health provide modest support for an association between adolescents' expectations for their future health and educational attainment and their risk-taking behaviors involving early sexual intercourse, selling drugs, and weapon use. Noteworthy "school climate" predictors were found,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Expectation
Peer reviewedDuncan, Greg J. – American Journal of Education, 1994
Estimates effects of neighbor and family characteristics on likelihood students will complete their schooling using national-level data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Data indicate racial composition of a neighborhood affects black but not white children. Family-level characteristics such as maternal education and family income were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
