Rob Duncan joined the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and the Department of Public Health at Purdue as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2017. Prior to joining Purdue, he received a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies and a M.P.H. (in Biostatistics) from Oregon State University in 2015, and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He has an interdisciplinary background (i.e., lifespan psychology, life course sociology, family studies, public health, and education) and extensive quantitative training that inform his research. Broadly, his research is focused on understanding the connections between children’s early environments and their development of school readiness skills (e.g., language abilities, self-regulation, executive function, academic achievement). He is particularly interested in the role that education interventions and policies can play in fostering successful development in order to reduce academic, health, and economic inequalities. His quantitative interests are primarily in longitudinal and multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, and causal inference.