Health, Wealth, and Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations

描述（由申请人提供）：作为国家社会科学研究基础设施的基石，收入动态小组研究（PSID）是对具有全国代表性的美国家庭样本进行的纵向调查。从1968年开始，已经收集了36波关于PSID家庭及其后代的数据。它对经济和社会福祉的长期衡量促使研究人员和政策制定者关注社会和行为过程中固有的基本动力。PSID越来越多地被用于回答老龄化社会背景下的创新社会和行为研究问题，并且是唯一可以在生命历程和家谱框架中研究健康和死亡率的国家资源。本申请拟在2013年和2015年的PSID浪潮中收集、处理和传播三个模块：1。健康模块：包括15分钟关于健康状况、健康行为、健康保险覆盖范围和医疗费用的调查问题。将扩大与全国死亡指数和医疗保险的联系；2. 财富模块：包括10分钟关于财富、主动储蓄和养老金的调查问题。将首次将活动样本和死者与社会保障收入和福利记录联系起来，并将开发和实施一个新的模块，以尽量减少财富变化报告中的错误；和3。带相关心理社会测量的幸福模块：我们将设计并实施一份混合模式（网络/邮寄）问卷，从受访者和配偶那里收集有关他们的幸福和相关心理社会测量（如个性、智力）的内容，并通过实验来确定（并允许研究人员在必要时进行调整）模式效应。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。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，有能力研究生命历程和多代人的健康、财富和福祉。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A cornerstone of the nation's social science research infrastructure, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families. Begun in 1968, 36 waves of data have now been collected on PSID families and their descendents. Its long-term measures of economic and social wellbeing have spurred researchers and policy makers to attend to the fundamental dynamism inherent in social and behavioral processes. The PSID is increasingly being used to answer innovative social and behavioral research questions in the context of an aging society, and is the only national resource that will allow study of health and mortality in a life course and genealogic framework. This application proposes to collect, process, and disseminate three modules in the 2013 and 2015 waves of the PSID: 1. Health module: Including 15 minutes of survey questions on health status, health behaviors, health insurance coverage and health care costs. Linkages to the National Death Index and Medicare will be extended; 2. Wealth module: Including 10 minutes of survey questions on wealth, active savings, and pensions. Linkage to Social Security earnings and benefits records for active sample and decedents will be undertaken for the first time, and a new module to minimize errors in reports of wealth changes will be developed and implemented; and 3. Wellbeing module with related psychosocial measures: We will design and implement a mixed-mode (web/mail out) questionnaire to collect content from both respondents and spouses about their wellbeing and related psychosocial measures (e.g., personality, intelligence), with an experiment to identify (and allow researchers to adjust for if necessary) mode effects. 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. The proposed modules will make the PSID the only long-term panel representative of the full U.S. population equipped to study life course and multigenerational health, wealth and wellbeing. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project will allow analysts to study behavioral and social influences on later life health and mortality that flow from both a life course and genealogic paradigm. The PSID is the only long-term national panel equipped to study life course and multigenerational aspects of health, wealth, and wellbeing. The data will permit investigators to study, for example, how the life course experience of the Baby Boom generation (in its youth when PSID began in 1968) has shaped their health and economic wellbeing; the role of inherited ability in intergenerational transmission of wealth and health; life course and genealogic influences on wellbeing in later life; and the interplay of life course influences and health care reform.