FAMILY AND CHILD WELL-BEING RESEARCH NETWORK

我们建议，儿童发展补充小组研究的收入动态是一个关键的数据库网络和桑德拉L。Hofferth，PSID的共同PI和其儿童发展补充（PSID-CDS）的PI，是网络PI之一。在过去的30年里，PSID收集了关于美国儿童家庭的详细信息，并在1997年对2，500个家庭的3，500名0-12岁儿童进行了详细评估，并计划在1999年收集更多的数据。除了PSID-CDS之外，我们还建议使用计划动态调查（SPD），这是对1992-1993年SIPP浪潮的10年纵向跟踪。我们将采用一个全面的战略，以获得家庭变化对儿童的影响的最佳估计，特别是，系统地使用一套公认的方法论方法来建立家庭行为对儿童的因果影响的方向和大小。再加上国家一级的政策和地区特征的数据库，这些数据将提供一个强大的工具，用于检查社会经济和政策背景，家庭行为和过程，以及健康，认知成就和儿童的社会发展之间的关联。与网络的公共政策重点一致，合作项目将研究社会背景和公共政策对家庭行为的影响。具体的项目包括一套相互关联的分析PSID-CDS和SIPP/SPD研究如何（1）生活安排，（2）资源，（3）产妇就业和儿童保育是相关的背景和政策变化，自1990年代初在美国。还将制定社会指标。个别项目将包括使用PSID/CDS检查这些家庭行为对儿童健康、认知和社会发展的影响，以及家庭过程在调解这些结果中所发挥的作用。没有其他国家的数据集有详细的结果和家庭过程的数据需要一个全面的研究，改变家庭行为对幼儿的影响。

We propose that the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics be one of key databases in the network and that Sandra L. Hofferth, co-PI of the PSID and PI of its Child Development Supplement (PSID-CDS), be one of the network Pis. The PSID has collected detailed information on U.S. children's families over the past three decades and obtained detailed assessments of 3,500 children age 0-12 in 2,500 families in 1997, with additional data collection planned for 1999. Besides the PSID-CDS, we also propose to use the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), the proposed 10-year longitudinal follow-up of the 1992-1993 waves of the SIPP. We will employ a comprehensive strategy to obtain the best estimates of the effects of family change on children; in particular, the systematic use of a set of accepted methodological approaches to establish both the direction and size of causal effects of family behavior on children is proposed. When coupled with a data base on state level policies and area characteristics, these data will provide a powerful tool for examining the association among socioeconomic and policy context, family behavior and process, and the health, cognitive achievement, and social development of children. Consistent with the public policy focus of the network, the collaborative projects will examine the effects of social context and public policies on family behavior. The specific projects consist of a set of interrelated analyses of the PSID-CDS and the SIPP/SPD to examine how (1) living arrangements, (2) resources, and (3) maternal employment and children's care are related to contextual and policy changes in the United States since the early 1990s. Social indicators will also be developed. The individual projects will consist of an examination of these family behaviors on children's health and cognitive and social development and the part played by family process in mediating these outcomes, using the PSID/CDS. No other national data sets have the detailed outcome and family process data needed for a comprehensive study of the effects of changing family behavior on young children.