Research Projects

Project Description The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families (Center) is a research hub to generate evidence and support programs and policy to better serve low-income Hispanic children and families. Areas of research focus include poverty reduction and economic self-sufficiency; family stability; and early care and education. A key part of the Center’s mission…

The purpose of this project is to support the development and evaluation of new evidence-based plea bargaining policies and practices in the Durham District Attorney’s Office.

Project Description Safety net policies are intended to provide some level of basic income support and economic security to eligible families, in turn improving developmental outcomes and life course trajectories for children. Yet, despite high rates of poverty, Latinx families are less likely than other groups to utilize these benefits. Project Goals The team will…

This project expands reach, builds capacity, and scales up evidence-based programs offering positive youth development and sexuality education to address health disparities in the most vulnerable areas across rural Eastern North Carolina.

Project Description This study builds on the Great Smoky Mountains Study (GSMS), a study originating at Duke, and now currently following participants in the Great Smoky Mounties Study of Rural Aging (GSMS-RA). This study, Midlife Health Inequities in the Rural South (HIRS) aims to create a new consortium of samples for the study of midlife…

This project looks at the impact of rental housing sales on children’s residential mobility, school switches, and school performance.