Kenneth A. Dodge
· William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy StudiesDuke University · Public Policy Studies
Active 1975–2026
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About
Kenneth A. Dodge is the William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford School of Public Policy. He also holds positions as a Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and is a Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Additionally, he is a Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center and an affiliate of the Center for Child and Family Policy. His work has been featured on the Ways & Means podcast, highlighting his research on programs that support new moms and dads in adjusting to life with a newborn. His contact information is available at the Sanford School of Public Policy, located at 214A Sanford Building, Durham, NC.
Research topics
- Psychology
- Political Science
- Developmental psychology
- Medicine
- Clinical psychology
- Social psychology
- Demography
- Sociology
- Economic growth
- Medical education
Selected publications
Journal of Research on Adolescence · 2020 · 105 citations
We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing and internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents from 12 cultural groups. We did not find that single universal trajectories characterized adolescent externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures, but instead found significant heterogeneity in starting points and rates of change in both externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures. Some similarities did emerg…
Journal of Youth and Adolescence · 2020 · 70 citations
Internalizing and externalizing problems increase during adolescence. However, these problems may be mitigated by adequate parenting, including effective parent-adolescent communication. The ways in which parent-driven (i.e., parent behavior control and solicitation) and adolescent-driven (i.e., disclosure and secrecy) communication efforts are linked to adolescent psychological problems universally and cross-culturally is a question that needs more empirical investigation. The current study use…
Developmental Psychology · 2020 · 70 citations
The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States) were interviewed when children were…
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents
American Economic Review · 2023 · 67 citations
Improving academic outcomes for economically disadvantaged students has proven challenging, particularly for children at older ages. We present two large-scale randomized controlled trials of a high-dosage tutoring program delivered to secondary school students in Chicago. One innovation is to use paraprofessional tutors to hold down cost, thereby increasing scalability. Participating in math tutoring increases math test scores by 0.18 to 0.40 standard deviations, and increases math and nonmath…
Long-term effects of early childhood programs through eighth grade: Do the effects fade out or grow?
Children and Youth Services Review · 2020 · 30 citations
Senior authorCorresponding
Recent grants
NIH · $2.3M · 2011
NIH · $235k · 2013
NIH · $13.4M · 2008–2026
Frequent coauthors
- 442 shared
Jennifer E. Lansford
Center for Child and Family Health
- 338 shared
Gregory S. Pettit
Auburn University
- 310 shared
John E. Bates
Indiana University
- 210 shared
Ann T. Skinner
Duke University
- 205 shared
Marc H. Bornstein
Institute for Fiscal Studies
- 173 shared
Laurence Steinberg
- 152 shared
Suha M. Al‐Hassan
Emirates College for Advanced Education
- 134 shared
Kirby Deater‐Deckard
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Education
- 1975
B.A.
Northwestern University
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