Greg Duncan

{{Distinguish|Greg Duncan (diver)}}{{Short description|American economist}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Economics
Psychology
Education

| workplaces = University of California
University of Michigan
Northwestern University

| alma_mater = University of Michigan
Grinnell College

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| doctoral_students = Ariel Kalil

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}}Greg J. Duncan is an American economist who is a Distinguished Professor of Education at University of California, Irvine and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aapss.org/fellows-of-the-academy/ |title=Fellows |date=5 April 2016 |publisher=aapss.org |accessdate=May 8, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://developingchild.harvard.edu/people/greg-j-duncan-ph-d/ |title=Greg Duncan |publisher=uci.edu |accessdate=May 8, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://sites.uci.edu/gduncan/ |title=Greg Duncan |publisher=uci.edu |accessdate=May 8, 2017}} He was the 2013 winner of the Jacobs Research Prize for his research on the long-term effects of childhood poverty,{{cite web|title=2013 Research Prize – Jacobs Foundation|url=http://jacobsfoundation.org/awards/research-prize-2013-2/|website=jacobsfoundation.org|accessdate=30 June 2017|language=en}} primarily through his 23 years with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics as researcher and director.{{cite journal|last1=Duncan|first1=Greg J|title=The PSID and Me|journal=PSID Technical Series Paper|date=Apr 18, 1999|pages=56|url=http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/Publications/Papers/tsp/1999-02_PSID_and_me.pdf|accessdate=30 June 2017}}

His research has had broad impacts on poverty, education, and housing policy and research. One paper with biologist collaborators uncovered a direct link between cash subsidies to poor mothers and high-frequency brain activity in their infants,{{Cite web |date=2022-02-14 |title=Poverty reduction alters infant brain activity |url=https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/poverty-reduction-alters-infant-brain-activity |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=National Institutes of Health (NIH) |language=EN}} supporting many of his influential papers on life-long sociological effects of childhood poverty.{{Cite journal |last1=Brooks-Gunn |first1=Jeanne |last2=Duncan |first2=Greg J |date=1997 |title=The effects of poverty on children |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13921271 |journal=The Future of Children |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=55–71|doi=10.2307/1602387 |jstor=1602387 |pmid=9299837 }}{{Cite book |last1=Duncan |first1=Greg J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zg4XAwAAQBAJ |title=Consequences of Growing Up Poor |last2=Brooks-Gunn |first2=Jeanne |date=1997-06-19 |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |isbn=978-1-61044-826-0 |language=en}} {{As of|2022|}}, his 176 peer-reviewed articles had been cited in over 15,000 peer-reviewed articles,According to WebOfScience Analytics, retrieved 12/13/2022 and 38 of his books (including coauthors such as Harvard University Professor Richard Murnane) and articles have been cited 500+ times.According to GoogleScholar, retrieved 6/30/2017. This total includes non-peer-reviewed materials. In 2022, he was in the top 1% of most cited researchers in Education, anchoring the UCI Graduate School of Education which was ranked eighth in the world.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-17 |title=16 UCI faculty members listed among Highly Cited Researchers |url=https://news.uci.edu/2022/11/17/13-uci-faculty-members-listed-among-highly-cited-researchers/ |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=UCI News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=UCI School of Education ranks No. 8 globally according to U.S. News & World Report |url=https://news.uci.edu/2022/10/27/uci-school-of-education-ranks-no-8-globally-according-to-u-s-news-world-report/ |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=UCI News |language=en-US}}