Research Network On The Determinants Of Life Course Capabilities And Outcomes Initiative

University of Chicago

The Research Network On The Determinants Of Life Course Capabilities And Outcomes initiative aims to produce new work on development across the life cycle and on life course inequalities. Scholars from the fields of economics, genetics, psychology, sociology, and statistics work together to develop a comprehensive framework with which to analyze inequality in capabilities, with a focus on mid-life and late-life outcomes. The project convenes conferences across disciplines, presenting a range of perspectives on the research topics, and identifying and charting areas of commonalities and differences. Workshops hosted by the initiative bring together graduate students and emerging scholars to help foster cross-disciplinary training, creating a forum for new measurement and development approaches. The project also supports a pilot grant program, which facilitates multidisciplinary projects and trains emerging scholars.

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Leadership & Staff

James J Heckman Economist at Department of Economics, University of Chicago

• Principal Investigator

Angela Duckworth Associate Professor, Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania

• Principal Investigator

Donors

National Institutes of Health primary U.S. government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research

• Grant ('16→'20)

Miscellaneous Relationships

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Making Behavior Change Stick, at UPenn 2017 Research Network on Determinants of Life Course Capabilities and Outcomes

• Convened by (May '17→?)*

Measuring and Assessing Skills 2017 Center for the Economics of Human Development

• Conference of (Mar '17→?)

Daniel Kahneman Economist at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

• conference participant (May '17→?)*

Barbara Mellers Professor Wharton and Psychology

• conference participant*

David Asch Director Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation

• conference participant (May '17→?)*

Max Bazerman Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School

• conference participant (May '17→?)

Dean Karlan Professor of Economics Northwestern

• conference participant (May '17→?)

Bridget Terry Long Professor of Education at Harvard

• conference participant (May '17→?)*

Wendy Wood Professor of Psychology and Business at USC

• conference participant (May '17→?)*

John Beshears Professor of Business Administration Behavioral Economics

• conference participant