Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations

收入动态小组研究（PSID）是对美国家庭的全国代表性样本的纵向调查，始于1968年。收集了41年来36波相同家庭及其后代的数据（截至2009年），PSID可以被认为是美国实证社会科学研究的基石。通过其对经济和社会福祉的长期衡量，并基于其加权的美国家庭代表性样本，这项研究迫使研究人员解决社会，经济、人口和健康过程及其相互关系。2003年、2005年、2007年、2009年和2011年，NICHD共同主办了两年一度的PSID核心访谈的收集工作。该项目将在先前投资的基础上，在2013年和2015年收集关于家庭动态和背景的核心数据以及关于教育和新生儿的新数据，并辅之以行政联系。具体目标是管理三个PSID单元：（1）家庭动态和背景单元，包括8.5分钟的关于婚姻、生育、家庭组成、家庭背景、童年情况和相关主题的调查问题;（二）一个教育模块，将衡量所有16岁及以上的人在教育程度和教育经历方面的变化，用于将教育入学报告与教育机构的国家数据库联系起来;以及（3）新生儿模块，该模块将收集两次出生之间发生的所有出生的详细信息，并使我们能够从提供出生结果黄金标准信息的州生命统计数据库中获得关联的出生记录。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度可变索引创建定制的摘录和代码簿。此外，将继续向现有和新的数据用户提供外联和支持。拟议的模块将使PSID成为唯一一个代表美国全体人口的长期小组，可用于研究家庭动态，对儿童的投资以及整个生命过程中的幸福感，跨代和时间。

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.