Greg Duncan, Ph.D.
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Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and
Social Policy Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research,
Northwestern University
Greg Duncan, Ph.D., is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He has published extensively on issues of family and neighborhood poverty and their impacts on child and adolescent development.
An economist, Duncan is the co-editor with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn of Consequences of Growing up Poor (1997) and the two-volume Neighborhood Poverty (1997), which was also co-edited with Lawrence Aber. He served on the IOM/NRC committee that produced From Neurons to Neighborhoods (2000) and co-chaired the NRC/IOM Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health. Duncan currently serves on SRCD’s Governing Council and co-chairs its Multidisciplinary Task Force. He currently chairs the NICHD/NIA Social Science and Population Studies (SPSS) Study Section. Duncan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
