Human Capital Research Collaborative

A really big day for HCRC researcher Nicole Smerillo as she successfully defended her PhD dissertation in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota.

Nicole's dissertation is called "Preschool parent perceptions of school climate & child achievement" and it is based on data from the Midwest Longitudinal Study of the Child-Parent Centers. Here is new Dr. Smerillo & committee member Arthur Reynolds!

Join us on Tuesday March 15 for this talk on Zoom!

Understanding the Minnesota Achievement Gap | Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs Join us for a presentation of the new report by the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor. Humphrey faculty member Judy Temple will moderate this presentation given by Humphrey alum Sarah Delacueva and her OLA colleagues. This event is co-sponsored with the Human Capital Research Collaborative...

HCRC researcher and ICD PhD student Lauren Eales is the
lead author on this new paper that links socio-emotional skills in the first decade of life to lower rates of adult obesity for this urban sample from Chicago.

Childhood predictors of adult obesity in the Chicago Longitudinal Study Despite obesity being a major concern for both children and adults in the United States today, there are few successful childhood interventions that c…

Join us on Tuesday October 15 at noon on the West Bank of the U of MN for a talk by Associate Professor Aaron Sojourner on the usefulness for policymakers and researchers of the new childcare access tool developed by Sojourner, Elizabeth Davis, and Won Fy Lee.