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Duncan Thomas
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 255
Citations - 23861
Duncan Thomas is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Family life. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 245 publications receiving 22833 citations. Previous affiliations of Duncan Thomas include Michigan State University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Intra-household resource allocation: an inferential approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that unearned income in the hands of a mother has a bigger effect on her family's health than income under the control of a father; for child survival probabilities the effect is almost twenty times bigger.
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Health nutrition and economic development.
John Strauss,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between health and economic development is explored in this article focusing on nutrition-based health indicators, and the focus is placed on the inter-related feedbacks between the influence of health on productivity on one hand and the impact of income on health status on the other.
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Human resources: empirical modeling of household and family decisions.
John Strauss,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: A literature review focusing on education and health in its examination of the role that households and families play in choosing how to invest the human capital of their members is presented in this paper.
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Longer Term Effects of Head Start
TL;DR: This article found that African Americans who participated in Head Start are significantly less likely to have been charged or convicted of a crime and there are positive spillovers from older children who attended Head Start to their younger siblings.
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Does Head Start Make a Difference
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of participation in Head Start on a range of child outcomes, including test scores, immunization rates, and access to preventive health services.