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Lisa A. Gennetian

Lisa A. Gennetian

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
9629
World Ranking
4656
National Ranking
2215

Lisa A. Gennetian publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lisa A. Gennetian sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 170 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Lisa A. Gennetian D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lisa A. Gennetian sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lisa A. Gennetian is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences, with an emphasis on sociology and political science, education, gender studies, safety research, and general health professions. Their work intersects several important topics including gender, labor, and family dynamics, early childhood education and development, poverty, education, and child welfare, parental involvement in education, food security and health in diverse populations, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, and urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Kimberly G. Noble, Katherine Magnuson, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Greg J. Duncan, and Nathan A. Fox. These collaborations indicate consistent interdisciplinary efforts within the social sciences, education, and child development fields.

Lisa A. Gennetian has published extensively in a number of venues. Notable publication outlets include the SSRN Electronic Journal with 20 publications, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, Child Development Perspectives, and Behavioral Science & Policy.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Baby's First Years: Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Poverty Reduction in the United States (2021), published in PEDIATRICS
  • Net Worth Poverty in Child Households by Race and Ethnicity, 1989-2019 (2020), published in Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Assessments of Children's Health, Nutrition, and Sleep (2023), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Advancing Transparency and Openness in Child Development Research: Opportunities (2020), published in Child Development Perspectives

Best Publications

  • Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes — A Randomized Social Experiment

    Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Lisa Gennetian;Emma Adam

  • Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults

    Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Greg J. Duncan;Lisa A. Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz;Lawrence F. Katz

  • Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

    Jens Ludwig;Greg J Duncan;Lisa A Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz

  • Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program -- Final Impacts Evaluation

    Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Lawrence F. Katz;Lawrence F. Katz;Lisa A. Gennetian

  • The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity

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  • Structural and Process Features in Three Types of Child Care for Children from High and Low Income Families.

    Chantelle J. Dowsett;Aletha C. Huston;Amy E. Imes;Lisa Gennetian

  • One or two parents? Half or step siblings? The effect of family structure on young children's achievement

    Lisa A. Gennetian

  • Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts

    Aletha C Huston;Young Eun Chang;Lisa Gennetian

  • Children and welfare reform: A view from an experimental welfare program in Minnesota.

    Lisa A. Gennetian;Cynthia Miller

  • Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program

    V. Knox;C Miller;Lisa Gennetian

  • THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE

    Lisa A. Gennetian;Eldar Shafir

  • From statistical associations to causation: what developmentalists can learn from instrumental variables techniques coupled with experimental data.

    Lisa A. Gennetian;Katherine Magnuson;Pamela A. Morris

  • Unpacking Neighborhood Influences on Education Outcomes: Setting the Stage for Future Research

    David J Harding;Lisa Gennetian;Christopher Winship;Lisa Sanbonmatsu

  • Identifying the Effects of Income on Children's Development Using Experimental Data

    Pamela A. Morris;Lisa A. Gennetian

  • How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents: A Synthesis of Research.

    Lisa A. Gennetian;Greg J. Duncan;Virginia W. Knox;Wanda G. Vargas

  • Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence

    Ronald C. Kessler;Greg J. Duncan;Lisa A. Gennetian;Lawrence F. Katz;Lawrence F. Katz

  • The Consequences of Income Instability for Children's Well-Being

    Heather D. Hill;Pamela Morris;Lisa A. Gennetian;Sharon Wolf

  • Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program. Volume 1: Effects on Adults [and] Volume 2: Effects on Children.

    Cynthia Miller;Virginia Knox;Lisa A. Gennetian;Martey Dodoo

  • The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months: Effects of a Financial Work Incentive on Employment and Income.

    Charles Michalopoulos;David Card;Lisa A. Gennetian;Kristen Harknett

  • The Long-Term Effects of Moving to Opportunity on Youth Outcomes

    Lisa A. Gennetian;Matthew Sciandra;Lisa Sanbonmatsu;Jens Ludwig

  • Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work: Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program, Volume 2: Effects on Children

    C Miller;V. Knox;Lisa Gennetian;J Hunter

  • Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in ChildrenSucceeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children. By HavemanRobert and WolfeBarbara. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994. 331 pp. ISBN 0-87154-377-X, $34.95 (cloth); 0-87154-380-X, $16.95 (paper).

    Lisa A. Gennetian

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Ludwig
Jens Ludwig University of Chicago
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Jeffrey R. Kling
Jeffrey R. Kling National Bureau of Economic Research
Pamela Morris
Pamela Morris New York University
Lawrence F. Katz
Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Aletha C. Huston
Aletha C. Huston The University of Texas at Austin
David J. Harding
David J. Harding University of California, Berkeley
Andrew S. London
Andrew S. London Syracuse University
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University

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