Two-Generation Human Capital Interventions. In 2008, Chase Lansdale launched a research project on CareerAdvance®, a model, two-generation education intervention, developed and run by the antipoverty agency CAP Tulsa (Community Action Project of Tulsa County, OK). CareerAdvance® combines education and workforce training for young, low-income parents, with high-quality, early childhood education programs for children. The original research project has evolved into three longitudinal studies that continue into present day.
Together with IPR research associate professor Teresa Eckrich Sommer and IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol, Chase-Lansdale evaluates the influence of CareerAdvance® on the psychological health, educational attainment, and economic well-being of families and children. CareerAdvance® provides not only educational programs for both parents and children, but also a number of key supportive components—career coaches, financial incentives, and peer group meetings—to prepare parents for careers in the healthcare sector.
Chase-Lansdale collaborates with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn of Columbia University, Christopher King of the University of Texas at Austin, Amanda Morris of Oklahoma State University, Hiro Yoshikawa of New York University, and CAP Tulsa to continuously expand and study this model, two-generation intervention.
In addition to her work with CAP Tulsa, Chase-Lansdale collaborates with Sommer and Sabol on the program design and research of Utec, Inc, a nonprofit serving formerly incarcerated fathers and their young children (Lowell, MA).
Funding for Chase-Lansdale’s research has come from the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Ascend at the Aspen Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Foundation for Child Development; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Books
Smuts, A.B., Smuts, R.W., Smuts, R.M., Smuts, B.B., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2006). Science in the service of children: 1893-1935. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Kiernan, K., & Friedman, R.J. (2004). Human development across lives and generations: The potential for change. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Duncan, G.J., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2001). For better and for worse: Welfare reform and the well-being of children and families. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Chase-Lansdale, P.L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1995). Escape from poverty: What makes a difference for children? New York: Cambridge University Press.
Articles, Chapters, and Policy Briefs
Sommer, T.E., Schneider, W., Chor, E., Sabol, T.J., Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Brooks-Gunn, J., … King, C. (2019). The effects of a two-generation human capital program on children’s attendance in Head Start. (revise/resubmit).
Sabol, T.J., Chor, E., Sommer, T.E., Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Morris, A., Brooks-Gunn, J., Yoshikawa, H., King, C. & Guminski, S. (2019). The effects of a two-generation education intervention on young children’s outcomes in Head Start. (revise/resubmit).
Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Sabol, T.J., Sommer, T.E., Chor, E., Cooperman, A.W., Brooks-Gunn, J., Yoshikawa, H., & Morris, A. (2019). Effects of a two-generation human capital program on low-income parents’ education, employment and psychological well-being. The Journal of Family Psychology. doi:10.1002/pam.21799
Sommer, T.E., Gomez, C.J., Yoshikawa, H., Sabol, T., Chor, E., Sanchez, A., Chase-Lansdale, P.L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2018). Head Start, two-generation ESL services, and parent engagement. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.03.008
Sommer, T.E., Sabol, T.J., Chor, E., Schneider, W., Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Brooks-Gunn, J., Small, M. King, C., & Yoshikawa, H. (2018). A two-generation human capital approach to anti-poverty policy. The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(3), 118-143. doi: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.07.
Sommer, T.E., Sabol, T.J., Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Small, M., Wilde, H., Brown, S., & Huang, Z.Y (2017). Promoting parents’ social capital to increase children’s attendance in Head Start: Evidence from an experimental intervention. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 10(4), 732-766. doi:10.1080/19345747.2016.1258099
Gardner, M., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2017). The two-generation approach to building human capital: Past, present and future. In E. Votruba-Drzal & E. Dearing, (Eds.), Handbook of early childhood development programs, practices, and policies: Theory-based and empirically-supported strategies for promoting young children’s growth in the United States. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Dunifon, R., Kopko, K., Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Wakschlag, L. (2016). Multigenerational relationships in families with custodial grandparents. In M.H. Meyer & Y. Adbul-Malak, (Eds.), Grandparenting in the U.S. (pp.133-159). New York: Baywood Publishing.
Garfield, C., Duncan, G., Peters, S., Rutsohn, J., McDade, T., Adam, E., Coley, R., and Chase-Lansdale, P.L. (2016). Adolescent reproductive knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs and future fatherhood. Journal of Adolescent Health, 30, 1-7. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.12.010
McKinney, C., Hahn-Holbrook, J., Chase-Lansdale, P.L., Ramey, S., Krohn, J., Reed-Vance, M., Raju, T. N. K., & Shalowitz, M. U. (2016). Racial and ethnic difference in breastfeeding. Pediatrics, 138(2), 1-11. doi10.1542/peds.2015-2388
Sommer, T.E., Sabol, T.J., Chase-Lansdale, P. L., Brooks-Gunn, J. (2016). Two-generation education programs for parents and children. In S. Jones & N. Lesaux (Eds.), The leading edge of early childhood education: Linking science to policy for a new generation (pp. 135-158). Boston, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Sabol, T. J., Chase-Lansdale, P. L. & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2015). Advancing the science of child development: Do we need a new household survey? Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 40, 221-255.