Enhancing the PSID Child Development Supplement

描述（由申请人提供）：1997年，儿童发展补充被添加到收入动态小组研究（PSID）中，目的是从全国代表性的纵向角度提高我们对儿童社会人口，心理和经济方面的理解。将收集由NICHD资助的儿童发展补充资料（PSID-CDS-II）的第二轮数据。将从1997年参加PSID-CDS-I的3 563名儿童及其父母的一个子集收集有关儿童发展的广泛信息。在这份提案中，我们要求资金在两个重要方面加强PSID-CDS-II：（1）增加低收入儿童的样本，包括那些最初在第一波采访的人;（2）开发一个更有效的基础设施，供广泛的研究人员分发和使用数据集。 具体而言，我们建议： 1.从PSID的低收入过度样本中收集730名儿童的第二波数据。2.提供初中/高中课程招生和成绩信息的详细编码，并方便与学校特色数据的链接。 3.通过创建统一的基于Oracle的PSID/CDS数据中心和在线教程，增强对复杂CDS和PSID数据存档的使用。 4.建立一个有凝聚力的跨学科研究人员网络，以促进和促进CDS的使用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 1997 the Child Development Supplement was added to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) with the goal of improving our understanding of socio-demographic, psychological, and economic aspects of childhood from a nationally representative longitudinal perspective. The second wave of data for the Child Development Supplement (PSID-CDS-II), which was funded by NICHD, will be collected. Extensive information will be collected on child development from a subset of the 3,563 children and their parents who participated in PSID-CDS-I in 1997. In this proposal, we request funds to enhance PSID-CDS-II on two important dimensions: (1) to increase the sample of low-income,children to include those originally interviewed in the first wave and (2) to develop a more efficient infrastructure for distribution and use of the data set by a broad array of researchers. Specifically, we propose to: 1.Collect the second wave of data for 730 children from PSID's low-income oversample. 2.Provide detailed coding of middle school/high school course enrollment and performance information, and facilitate links to school characteristics data. 3.Enhance use of the complex CDS and PSID data archive by creating a unified Oracle-based PSID/CDS Data Center and on-line tutorial. 4. Develop a cohesive, interdisciplinary network of researchers to facilitate and promote use of the CDS.