FAMILY AND CHILD WELL-BEING RESEARCH NETWORK

我们建议将收入动态小组研究的儿童发展补充资料作为网络中的关键数据库之一，并建议将PSID和其儿童发展补充资料(PSID-CDS)的共同PI Sandra L.Hofferth作为网络PI之一。PSID收集了过去30年来美国儿童家庭的详细信息，并在1997年对2500个家庭中3500名0-12岁的儿童进行了详细的评估，并计划在1999年进行进一步的数据收集。除了PSID-CDS，我们还建议使用方案动态调查(SPD)，这是拟议的1992-1993年SIPP浪潮的10年纵向后续行动。我们将采用综合策略来获得对家庭变化对儿童的影响的最佳估计；特别是，建议系统地使用一套被接受的方法来确定家庭行为对儿童的因果影响的方向和大小。当与州一级政策和地区特征的数据库相结合时，这些数据将为检验社会经济和政策背景、家庭行为和过程以及儿童的健康、认知成就和社会发展之间的关联提供强有力的工具。与该网络的公共政策重点一致，这些合作项目将审查社会背景和公共政策对家庭行为的影响。具体项目包括对PSID-CDS和SIPP/SPD的一系列相互关联的分析，以审查(1)生活安排、(2)资源和(3)产妇就业和儿童护理如何与美国自1990年代初以来的背景和政策变化有关。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以及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起的作用。没有其他国家的数据集具有全面研究改变家庭行为对幼儿的影响所需的详细结果和家庭进程数据。

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.