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Two new papers, authored by teams headed by DUPRI's Jennifer Lansford and using data from the Parenting Across Cultures study, examine the effects of pre-pandemic predictors on individuals' compliance with COVID mitigation strategies and vaccine hesitancy and with their mental well-being and substance use. Both papers also explore how confidence in government handling of the pandemic influences these behaviors.

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) was recently renewed as the one Administration for Children, Youth, and Families-funded repository for data on child abuse and neglect, as well as Child Protectives Services contact.

In a new paper published in Housing Policy Debate titled "Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Case Positivity and Social Context: The Role of Housing, Neighborhood, and Health Insurance," a group of researchers, including Anna Gassman-Pines, Elizabeth Gifford, and Marcos Rangel examine the housing, neighborhood, and health insurance explain disparities in case positivity between and within racial-ethnic groups in Durham County, North Carolina.

DUPRI's Chris Wildeman, along with collaborators Sarah Font (Pennsylvania State University), Yo Jackson (Pennsylvania State University), Lonnie Berger (University of Wisconsin), and Kristin Turney (University of California, Irvine), has been awarded an NIH grant to study "Implications of Parental Incarceration for Child Health and Wellbeing".

An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by PI Charles Nunn and Co-PI James Moody, aims to understand what factors turn a local outbreak into a global pandemic by focusing on human connections at a local, regional and global scales.

Eighteen years after administering an intensive childhood intervention program called Fast Track, Duke researchers have found that the program not only reduced conduct problems and juvenile arrests in childhood — it also improved family outcomes when the original children grew up and became parents themselves.

Some people age slowly, while others age more quickly. DUPRI scholars Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi recently discovered that the pace of aging may also serve as a powerful predictor of an individual’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive decline.

Scott Lynch is currently involved in an ongoing inter-institutional project with the US Naval Academy, the University of Maine, University of Tampa, and the University of Pittsburgh investigating psychological and biological factors that predict successful completion of the Navy’s SEAL training program, BUDS (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL school).

In a new paper published in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, DUPRI scholars Lisa Keister and James Moody, along with Duke Sociology PhD candidate Tom Wolff, examine the role of rural upbringing on adult wealth.