We propose that the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) be one of the key data bases in the network and that Greg J. Duncan, a PI on the PSID project, be one of the network PIs. By compiling longitudinal information on a large and continuously representative sample of U.S. families over a 25-year period, the PSID provides unparalleled longitudinal data on the poverty and welfare experiences of children, rich intergenerational data on childhood backgrounds (including neighborhood conditions) and adult attainments, unique data on intergenerational transfers, and oversamples of Blacks and Hispanics. Duncan's research record is replete with innovative studies of child poverty, welfare dependence, intergenerational processes, cross-national comparisons of family well-being, survey methods, public outreach and research network activities. Collaborating with Duncan on the proposed research project are Martha Hill of the Survey Research Center, who has designed and analyzed many innovative demographic survey modules concerning intergenerational issues, family composition and the economic fortunes of children, and Sandra Hofferth of the Urban Institute, who has made many scientific and policy-related contributions to research on kin support networks, child care and family structure. Two individual research projects are proposed. The first consists of a set of interrelated analyses of the effects of family background, neighborhood conditions and extended family networks on a series of important adolescent and early-adult outcomes -- dropping out of high school, attending college, early career attainments (including self- employment) and first home purchase. The second involves collaborators in Germany, France and Sweden and extends Duncan's comparative cross- national work on longitudinal aspects of poverty and welfare use to focus on the issue of why, despite apparently similar amounts of economic mobility, social-assistance recipients in different countries have such very different durations of receipt. Three network research projects are proposed: a system of descriptive longitudinal indicators of children's well-being and of trends in those indicators, building neighborhood indicators from the 1980 and 1990 Census into some of the other data sets in the network, and coordinated research on intergenerational exchanges.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project--Cooperative Agreements (U01)
Project #
5U01HD030947-06
Application #
2403340
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (SRC (08))
Project Start
1993-08-01
Project End
1999-04-11
Budget Start
1997-08-01
Budget End
1999-04-11
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
1997
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Northwestern University at Chicago
Department
Type
Organized Research Units
DUNS #
City
Evanston
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
60201
Hill, Heather D; Morris, Pamela A; Castells, Nina et al. (2011) Getting a Job is Only Half the Battle: Maternal Job Loss and Child Classroom Behavior in Low-Income Families. J Policy Anal Manage 30:310-333
Hill, Heather D; Morris, Pamela (2008) Welfare policies and very young children: experimental data on stage-environment fit. Dev Psychol 44:1557-71
Duncan, Greg J; Wilkerson, Bessie; England, Paula (2006) Cleaning up their act: the effects of marriage and cohabitation on licit and illicit drug use. Demography 43:691-710
Keels, Micere; Duncan, Greg J; Deluca, Stefanie et al. (2005) Fifteen years later: can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape from neighborhood segregation, crime, and poverty? Demography 42:51-73
Duncan, Greg J; Boisjoly, Johanne; Kremer, Michael et al. (2005) Peer effects in drug use and sex among college students. J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:375-85
Duncan, G J; Boisjoly, J; Harris, K M (2001) Sibling, peer, neighbor, and schoolmate correlations as indicators of the importance of context for adolescent development. Demography 38:437-47
Duncan, G J; Brooks-Gunn, J (2000) Family poverty, welfare reform, and child development. Child Dev 71:188-96