The budget bill’s expanded SNAP work requirements ignore the reality of low-wage work, writes Anna Gassman-Pines with co-author Elizabeth Ananat in The Regulatory Review.
Jennifer Lansford discussed her new child development research with the Society for Research in Child Development. She detailed how children build beliefs about safety in the world around them. ScienMag also summarized her research.
“Love any Child Policy course. Of the ones I took, I liked Child Policy Research with Dr. Whitney McCoy, a phenomenal course. I was a freshman in that class. They were really sweet because I’d never written a research paper at that point, but they let me take the class.'”
Jennifer Lansford spoke at the United Nations, offering into four megatrends shaping families worldwide: technology, demographic shifts, urbanization and migration, and climate change.
Katie Rosanbalm was the featured expert for an article in St. Louis Mag that tells the story of one St. Louis school that has chosen to completely ban student cell phones on school grounds.
Jennifer Lansford is quoted in article about her research on the long-term consequences of dropping out of high school, previously featured in Newsweek.
Classrooms – I might argue, especially economics classrooms – can go a long way to interrogate normative perspectives and issues from non-normative tools in all of the
ways that a true democracy demands, writes Lisa Gentian in The Duke Chronicle.
Family Connects, an initiative started by Kenneth Dodge through the Duke Endowment, has been rolled out nationally by Family Connects International. NPR highlighted the program’s rollout in Oregon.
On September 27-28, 2024, the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity will host its annual Color of Education summit. The convening will bring a community together to progress collective action toward achieving racial equity and eliminating racial disparities in education.
In 2018, a remarkable experiment was launched called Baby’s First Years, studying young children in the US. The main question it asked was simple: What does giving $4,000 a year, unrestricted, to families with young kids do for them?
Jennifer Lansford spoke with CBS Sunday Business Page about the importance of fathers in a child’s life and the research that shows how children gain positive support from an active and engaged dad.
Jennifer Lansford told Newsweek in a previous interview that students who end up dropping out of high school could face adverse ramifications well into adulthood, pointing to her research.
America’s childcare crisis is taking another turn for the worse, now impacting a new group of parents. The employment gap between those who have a four-year college degree and those who don’t is growing larger, which is impacting how parents are seeking out childcare.
This podcast episode features researchers from Baby’s First Years, a multi-year effort to test the connections between poverty reduction and brain development among very young children.
Duke student Phoebe Ducote writes about her recent experience meeting with the Wilson Lecture speaker, Adam Benforado, who recently spoke at the Sanford School of Public Policy.