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Give Us This Day our Daily Breadth

Give Us This Day our Daily Breadth. Greg J. Duncan Department of Education University of California, Irvine. Learning from the masters:. Tom Juster Jim Morgan. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. “The economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger.”.

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Give Us This Day our Daily Breadth

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  1. Give Us This Day our Daily Breadth Greg J. Duncan Department of Education University of California, Irvine

  2. Learning from the masters: Tom Juster Jim Morgan

  3. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  4. “The economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger.” -Frederick von Hayek

  5. Rat demand curve for root beer Kagel et al., 1975

  6. I say: “noncognitive skill” You feel:

  7. To create is to recombine -Francois Jacob

  8. Parallel play Associative play Cooperative play

  9. A Mediated Model of Family Poverty Purchased inputs Cognitive stimulation in the home Type and quality of child care Quality of schools and neighborhood Income pathway Child/ Adolescent outcomes Attainment Socioemotional behavior Executive function Child Poverty Family processes Maternal mental health Parenting Maternal stress pathway

  10. Increase in completed schooling associated with a $3,000 annual increase in income Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, Yeung and Smith, 1998

  11. Increase in age 25-37 earnings associated with a $3,000 annual increase in income Duncan, Ziol-Guest & Kalil, 2010

  12. Increase in age 25-37 earnings associated with a $3,000 annual increase in income Duncan, Ziol-Guest & Kalil, 2010

  13. Regression-adjusted associations with early family income Duncan, Ziol-Guest & Kalil, 2010

  14. A Mediated Model of Family Poverty Purchased inputs Child/ Adolescent outcomes Attainment Socioemotional behavior Executive function Childhood Poverty Parenting

  15. A Mediated Model of Family Poverty Purchased inputs Child/ Adolescent outcomes Attainment Socioemotional behavior Executive function Childhood Poverty Parenting Adult outcomes Ability to sustain full time careers Health Stress and immune function Early poverty Early fetal/child stress Early brain development

  16. Macrosystem Political system ҉ ҉ Culture Exosystem Mesosystem Mass media ҉ ҉ Community Microsystem The Child Peers ҉ ҉ Family ҉ Economy ҉ Economy ҉ Policy ҉ Policy Bronfenbrenner, 1979

  17. High and low family incomes, 1947-2008

  18. Achievement gaps by race and income, by birth year Income gap based on various national surveys

  19. As yet untitled volume Edited by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane Russell Sage, 2011

  20. EITC payments for family with 2+ children 1996 1993 Earned income

  21. Effects of EITC expansion on children’s test scores and mothers’ health # bad mental health days CRP ≥ 0.3 mg/Dl Children Mothers Dahl and Lochner, 2009; Evans and Garthwaite, 2009

  22. Statistical technique de jour Measurement quality Unbiased estimation Unbiased causal estimation

  23. The case for breadth

  24. Ideas having sex with other ideas…The history of the modern world is a history of ideas meeting, mixing, mating and mutating Matt Ridley, 2010 The Rational Optimist

  25. 2012 Theme meetings in Tampa Bay • February 9-11, 2012 • Developmental methodology • Positive development • October 18-20, 2012 • Emerging adulthood

  26. To create is to recombine-Francois Jacob

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