Health Wealth and Pensions Over the Life Course in a Long Panel

描述(申请人提供)：收入动态小组研究(PSID)是世界上运行时间最长的具有国家代表性的小组调查。PSID拥有近40年的相同家族及其后代的数据，可以理所当然地被视为基于经验的社会科学研究的数据基础设施的基石。长长的专家小组、家谱血统和广泛的数据内容代表了一个独特而强大的机会，可以研究同一个家族在相当长一段时间内的进化和变化。PSID现在包含了受访者成为父母、祖父母和曾祖父母的家庭近40年的预期生活史，以及自调查开始以来已去世的4000多名受访者。这些数据被用来支持生命周期内个人、给定家庭同代亲属(例如，兄弟姐妹模型)以及同一家庭多代人(例如，父母-成年子女模型)的日益复杂的结果模型。这些模型将有助于使用创新的研究战略，以更科学地理解促进个人健康和福祉的方法。PSID在线数据中心允许用户创建定制的数据集和码本，随着它的不断增强，我们预计PSID的数据档案将继续成为使用最广泛的数据集之一。该应用程序的具体目标是收集、处理和传播PSID中三个浪潮的健康、财富和养老金数据：2007、2009和2011年。继续收集这些数据将促进早年和中年环境对健康、经济福祉和晚年死亡率影响的科学进步。这些数据将支持对许多出生队列的退休前时期、退休过渡以及退休后健康和经济动态的研究。该申请还建议对在PSID中收集生物标记物的价值和可行性进行彻底评估。通过显著增加国家在健康和老龄化领域的科学知识基础，这些具体目标与NIH支持人类成长和发展过程的研究、延长健康寿命以及减少疾病和残疾负担的使命非常匹配。随着这些数据的继续收集，PSID将成为代表美国全体人口的长期小组中唯一一项关于生命历程和多代人健康与财富的调查。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world's longest running nationally representative panel survey. With nearly 40 years of data on the same families and their descendents, the PSID can justly be considered a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically-based social science research. The long panel, genealogical blood-line, and broad content of the data represent a unique and powerful opportunity to study evolution and change within the same families over a considerable time span. The PSID now contains nearly 40 years of prospective life histories of families with respondents who have become parents, grandparents, and now great-grandparents, as well as over 4,000 respondents who have died since the survey began. These data are being used to support increasingly complex models of outcomes for individuals over the life cycle, for relatives within the same generation of a given family (e.g., sibling models), and for individuals across multiple generations of the same family (e.g., parent-adult child models). These models will facilitate the use of innovative research strategies to yield a greater scientific understanding of ways to promote individual health and well-being. With continued enhancements to the PSID Online Data Center, which allows users to create customized data sets and codebooks, we anticipate that the PSID's data archive will continue to be one of the most widely used data sets. The specific aims of the application are to collect, process, and disseminate data on health, wealth, and pensions in the PSID for three waves: 2007, 2009, and 2011. The continued collection of these data will promote scientific advances in the effects of early and mid-life circumstances on health, economic well-being, and mortality in later life. These data will support research on the pre-retirement period, the retirement transition, and post-retirement health and economic dynamics for numerous birth cohorts. The application also proposes a thorough assessment of the value and feasibility of collecting biomarkers in the PSID. By adding significantly to the nation's scientific knowledge base in the area of health and aging, these specific aims strongly match NIH's mission to support research on the process of human growth and development, extend healthy life, and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. With continued collection of these data, the PSID will be the only survey on life course and multigenerational health and wealth in a long-term panel representative of the full U.S. population.