Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations

描述（由申请人提供）：收入动态的小组研究（PSID）是对1968年开始的具有全国代表性的美国家庭样本的纵向调查。通过41年来（截至2009年）36波对同一家庭及其后代的数据收集，PSID可以被认为是美国实证社会科学研究的基石。通过对经济和社会福祉的长期衡量，并基于美国家庭的加权代表性样本，该研究迫使研究人员解决社会、经济、人口和健康过程的动态及其相互关系。NICHD在2003年、2005年、2007年、2009年和2011年共同赞助了两年一次的PSID核心访谈集。该项目将在先前投资的基础上，在2013年和2015年收集有关家庭动态和背景的核心数据，以及有关教育和新生儿的新数据，并辅以行政联系。具体目标是管理三个PSID模块：(1)家庭动态和背景模块，包括8.5分钟的关于婚姻、生育、家庭组成、家庭背景、童年环境和相关主题的调查问题；(2)一个教育模块，用于衡量所有16岁及以上的人在不同浪潮之间的教育成就和教育经历的变化，并将用于将教育入学报告与国家教育机构数据库联系起来；(3)一个新生儿模块，它将收集发生在波浪之间的所有出生的详细信息，并允许我们从国家生命统计数据库中获得相关的出生记录，这些数据库提供了关于出生结果的黄金标准信息。收集后，数据将在PSID在线数据中心进行处理和分发，该中心将允许用户使用跨年变量索引创建定制的摘录和代码本。此外，将继续向现有和新的数据用户提供外联和支持。这些拟议的模块将使PSID成为唯一一个代表全美国人口的长期小组，可以用来研究家庭动态，对儿童的投资，以及整个生命过程中，跨代和随时间推移的福祉。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families that began in 1968. With data collected on the same families and their descendents for 36 waves over 41 years (as of 2009), the PSID can justifiably be considered a cornerstone for empirical social science research in the U.S. Through its long-term measures of economic and social well-being, and based on its weighted representative sample of U.S. families, the study has compelled researchers to address the dynamics of social, economic, demographic, and health processes and their interrelationships. NICHD has co-sponsored the collection of the biennial PSID core interview in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011. This project will build upon this prior investment by collecting, in 2013 and 2015, core data on family dynamics and background and new data on education and on newborns supplemented by administrative linkages. The specific aims are to administer three PSID modules: (1) a family dynamics and background module, comprising 8.5 minutes of survey questions on marriage, fertility, family composition, family background, childhood circumstances, and related topics; (2) an education module that will measure changes in educational attainment and educational experiences between waves for all persons 16 years of age and older and will be used for linking education enrollment reports to national databases on educational institutions; and (3) a newborn module that will collect detailed information for all births that occur between waves and will allow us to obtain linked birth records from state vital statistics databases that provide gold- standard information on birth outcomes. After collection, the data will be processed and distributed in the PSID Online Data Center, which will allow users to create customized extracts and codebooks using a cross-year variable index. In addition, outreach and support will continue to be provided to current and new data users. The proposed modules will make PSID the only long-term panel representative of the full U.S. population that can be used to study family dynamics, investments in children, and well-being over the life course, across generations, and over time.