Fragile Families Summer Data Workshops Series 2013 to 2017

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案为一系列五个夏季研讨会寻求资金，这些研讨会将培训不同群体的早期职业学者使用脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究（FFS），这是一项基于人口的，纵向的，美国国立卫生研究院资助的出生队列调查，旨在进一步了解影响城市儿童发展的社会和行为因素。在过去的四十年里，非婚生育的增加促使越来越多的文献研究有孩子的未婚父母的能力和面临的挑战，他们通常被称为“脆弱的家庭”。生物医学和人口科学家已经确定社会环境是有效提供健康和社会服务的组成部分，并提出了许多问题，如父母和环境因素在多大程度上影响儿童福祉，它们在多大程度上调节儿童对健康或行为挑战的遗传倾向，以及控制任何因果关系的机制。2007年开始的经济大衰退（Great Recession）极大地改变了家庭生活的经济条件，因此对脆弱家庭及其子女的担忧变得更加突出。农民田间学校在解决这些问题方面发挥了重要作用；然而，仍有很多东西需要学习，正在进行的FFS数据收集将进一步推进研究文献。因此，拟议的讲习班将侧重于与上述问题相关的一个专题领域，并将讨论以前培训讲习班未涉及的FFS数据的不同方面，包括：调查城市的宏观经济数据、遗传数据和社区环境数据。拟议的一系列讲习班将培训来自社会和生物医学科学各学科的新一代研究人员了解FFS数据的能力，并将传播脆弱家庭数据，提高对脆弱家庭面临的问题的理解，并为新一代社会、行为和生物医学科学家提供指导和合作的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks funds for a series of five summer workshops that will train a diverse group of early-career scholars on the use of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS), a population-based, longitudinal, NIH-funded birth cohort survey developed to further understanding of the social and behavioral factors affecting the development of urban children. The rise in non-marital childbearing over the past forty years has motivated a growing literature on the capabilities of, and challenges facing, unmarried parents with children, often referred to as "fragile families." Biomedical and population scientists have identified the social environment as integral to the effective delivery f health and social services, and raised a multitude of questions about the extent to which parental and environmental factors affect child wellbeing, the extent to which they may moderate children's genetic predispositions toward health or behavioral challenges, and the mechanisms that govern any causal effects. Concerns about fragile families and their children have taken on added salience in light of the Great Recession, which began in 2007 and has significantly altered the economic conditions in which families live. The FFS has played an important role in addressing these questions; however, much remains to be learned, and the ongoing collection of FFS data stands to further advance the research literature. As such, the proposed workshops will each focus on a thematic area relevant to the above mentioned concerns and will discuss different aspects of the FFS data not covered in prior training workshops, including: macroeconomic data in respondent cities, genetic data, and data on the neighborhood environment. The proposed series of workshops will train a new generation of researchers from a variety of disciplines in the social and biomedical sciences on the capabilities of the FFS data and will result in the dissemination of the Fragile Families data, an improved understanding of the issues facing fragile families, and opportunities for mentorship and collaboration for a new generation of social, behavioral and biomedical scientists.