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Jennifer Godwin

Research Scientist
Center for Child and Family Policy
Box 90545, Durham, NC 27708
Rubenstein Hall, 302 Towerview Road, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Jennifer Godwin is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy. She joined the Center in 2003 to provide statistical expertise for various projects. Currently, she works on the Fast Track and Childhood Risk Factors and Young Adult Competence projects, providing statistical analyses. She has extensive programming experience in SAS, Stata and MPlus, including survival analysis, mediation models, and multilevel models for continuous and categorical dependent variables.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


The Role of Despair in Predicting Self-Destructive Behaviors

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · June 1, 2025 Working age (25–64) mortality in the US has been increasing for decades, driven in part by rising deaths due to drug overdose, as well as increases in suicide and alcohol-related mortality. These deaths have been hypothesized by some to be due to despair, ... Full text Cite

Impact of young adult life transitions on adult mental health problems: a propensity score analysis.

Journal Article Psychol Med · May 19, 2025 BACKGROUND: Mental health problems commonly persist from childhood to adulthood. This study tested whether young adult life transitions can improve adult mental health symptoms after adjusting for childhood mental health symptoms. METHODS: The analysis use ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impulsivity profiles across five harmonized longitudinal childhood preventive interventions and associations with adult outcomes.

Journal Article Development and psychopathology · May 2025 This study aimed to parse between-person heterogeneity in growth of impulsivity across childhood and adolescence among participants enrolled in five childhood preventive intervention trials targeting conduct problems. In addition, we aimed to test profile ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Intergenerational Persistence of Treatment Effects in Human Capital Interventions

ResearchStatistician · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2029

Mid-Life Health Inequalities in the Rural South: Risk and Resilience

ResearchData Manager · Awarded by University of Vermont · 2023 - 2028

Childhood, Adolescence, and Covid-Related Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Adjustment in Early Adulthood Across Cultures

ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2022 - 2027

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