Draft:Lisa A. Gennetian

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Lisa A. Gennetian, Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy

Lisa A. Gennetian (born 1968) is an American applied economist focused on behavioral economics, child development, specifically child poverty, parent engagement and decision making, and policy and social investment considerations.[1]  She was the lead author of one of the first findings from the Baby's First Years study, which assesses the impact of poverty reduction on infant and toddlers' cognitive, emotional, and brain development in the United States.[2]

She is currently the Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.[1] Dr. Gennetian is a faculty affiliate of the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy,[3] Duke University's Population Research Institute (DuPRI),[4] an affiliated professor at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab[5] and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Children's Program.[6] She has served on the editorial board of the Child Development journal.[7]

Education and career[edit]

Gennetian received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College in 1990 and a PhD in Economics from Cornell University in 1998,[1] with specialties in economics of the household and labor and public economics.

She worked as a Senior Research Associate at MDRC[8] and launched the organization's Family Well-Being and Children's Development area. Gennetian has held research positions at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, The Brookings Institution,[9] Ideas42,[10] New York University's Institute for Human Development and Social Change,[11] the National Bureau of Economic Research,[12] the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute of Research on Poverty,[13]and the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute.[14] In 2021, Gennetian co-edited with Marta Tienda a volume for the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science entitled, "Investing in Latino Children and Youth."[15]

Research[edit]

As an applied economist, Gennetian's works on child poverty and identifying the causal mechanisms underlying how child poverty shapes development. Her interdisciplinary research draws on the fields of economics, psychology, family science, and child development to evaluate how family decision-making—particularly parental allocations of resources to children within the family—shape the quality of children's environments in ways that are ultimately reflected in children's developmental outcomes.[16]

She has over 20 years of expertise designing, launching, and directing randomized control studies of U.S. social policies regarding poverty in the United States.[16] Her research is widely published in general science journals as well as top journals in economics, child development, psychology, public policy, and sociology.[17] As of 2024, her 42 peer-reviewed articles had been cited in over 9,622 peer-reviewed articles.[18]

Notable Studies[edit]

Gennetian is most well known as a core principal investigator on the first multi-site longitudinal randomized control study of a monthly unconditional cash transfer program in the U.S. called Baby's First Years.[19] It is considered to be the first study in the United States to assess the impact of poverty reduction on family life and  infant and toddlers' cognitive, emotional, and brain development.[2]

Gennetian's early work included evaluations and methodological innovations in understanding causal impacts on children and families of the 1990s welfare reform experiments. She co-led and published several studies on the long-term impact of the Moving to Opportunity housing voucher experiment on families and children.[20] In addition, Gennetian has published on housing and neighborhood effects on health including obesity and diabetes,[21] teen pregnancy[22] and teen mental health.[23]

Gennetian also conducts research focused on Latino families and children, poverty and economic self-sufficiency, and uptake and experiences with social policies. Since 2012, she has served as a co-primary investigator or co-primary investigator of studies on poverty and economic self-sufficiency at the National Center for Research on Hispanic Families and Children.[24]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Lisa A. Gennetian Profile". Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Baby's First Years". Home Page. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
  3. ^ "People". Center for Child and Family Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
  4. ^ "Scholars: Lisa A. Gennetian". Duke Population Research Institute. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  5. ^ "Affiliated Professors". J-PAL Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Profile. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  6. ^ "Gennetian Appointed as NBER Research Associate". Duke Sanford School of Public Policy blog. April 26, 2022.
  7. ^ Society for Research in Child Development. "Previous Editorial Boards of Child Development Journal, 2013–2019".
  8. ^ "Our People> Lisa Gennetian". MDRC. July 2005. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  9. ^ "Guest Author". The Brookings Institute. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  10. ^ "Benefit Cycles and School Disciplinary Events". Ideas42.org. 2 March 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  11. ^ "Scholarly Affiliate Network". The Institute of Human Development and Social Change. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  12. ^ "Affiliated Scholars: Lisa A. Gennetian". National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  13. ^ "Affiliates & Researchers: Lisa A. Gennetian". Institute of Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  14. ^ "Gennetian.CV.Oct 2021.pdf | Powered by Box". duke.app.box.com.
  15. ^ Gennetian, Lisa A.; Tienda, Marta (July 2021). "Investing in Latino Children and Youth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 696 (1). doi:10.1177/00027162211049760 – via Sage Journals.
  16. ^ a b "Child Poverty Scholar Joins Sanford Faculty". February 4, 2020.
  17. ^ "Author citation page". PubMed. April 5, 2024.
  18. ^ "Profile: Lisa A. Gennetian". GoogleScholar. April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
  19. ^ "Core Principal Investigators". Baby's First Years. 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
  20. ^ "Evaluating the Impact of Moving to Opportunity in the United States". Poverty Action Lab. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  21. ^ Ludwig, Jens; Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Gennetian, Lisa; Adam, Emma; Duncan, Greg; Katz, Lawrence; Kessler, Ronald; Kling, Jeffrey; Tessler Lindau, Stacy; Whitaker, Robert; McDade, Thomas (October 20, 2011). "Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes—a randomized social experiment". New England Journal of Medicine. 365 (16): 1509–1519. doi:10.1056/Nejmsa1103216. PMC 3410541. PMID 22010917.
  22. ^ Fuller, Taleria; Sciandra, Matt; Koumans, Emilia; Boulet, Sheree; Warner, Lee; Cox, Shanna; Gennetian, Lisa (December 2019). "A housing mobility program's impacts on teen and young adult parenting". SSM Population Health. 9. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100451. PMC 6706675. PMID 31463353.
  23. ^ Kessler, Ronald; Duncan, Greg; Gennetian, Lisa; Katz, Lawrence; Kling, Jeffrey; Sampson, Nancy; Sanbonmatsu, Lisa; Zaslavsky, Alan; Ludwig, Jens (March 15, 2014). "Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence". Journal of the American Medical Association. 9 (311): 937–947. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.607. PMC 4100467. PMID 24595778.
  24. ^ LoJacono, Matt (October 25, 2023). "7.75 Million Grant Awarded to National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families".

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