Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

Clancy Blair

NYU
Professor

Clancy Blair, PhD, Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, is a developmental psychologist who studies self-regulation in young children. His research focuses primarily on the development of cognitive abilities referred to as executive functions important for school readiness and early school achievement and the effects of early life stress on executive function development. His projects include a longitudinal study in which he examines relations among early experiential and biological influences on self-regulation development and two randomized controlled trials of an innovative early education curriculum designed to promote school achievement by fostering executive functions and self-regulation. Prior to coming to NYU, he spent ten years as an assistant and then associate professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State. He received his doctorate in developmental psychology and a master's degree in public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1996.

Working Group

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)

Additional Information

Email: clancy.blair@nyu.edu