Data Alerts

March 30, 2009

Updated data files for both Three-year and Five-year In-home Longitudinal Study of Pre-School Aged Children survey have been posted on the OPR data archive.

This release includes one main change to these data sets: the ID of the father (fathid3 or fathid4 in the Three-year and Five-year data, respectively) is now available for every respondent who completed a wave of the In-home survey, regardless of the participation of the father in the corresponding wave of the core father survey.

Other changes include minor corrections of the typo errors in the label of a few variables. New versions of In-home survey documentation have been posted and reflect these changes.

Announcements

Tentatively scheduled presentations at the Population Association of America's Annual Meeting highlighting findings from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study are:

THURSDAY APRIL 15, 2010
Session 18: Demographic Consequences of Economic Downturns. The Great Recession and Material Hardship Natasha Pilkauskas, Irwin Garfinkel & Janet Currie
Session 43: Genetics and Demographic Behavior. The Role of Mother's Genes and Environment on Postpartum Depression Colter Mitchell, Daniel Notterman, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Iulia Kotenko, Kate Jaeger, John Hobcraft, Irv Garfinkel, & Sara McLanahan
Session 59: Family Structure and Child Wellbeing. The effects of family structure on child wellbeing: An assessment of marriage policy assumptions Dohoon Lee & Sara McLanahan
Session 67: Policy and Family. A Sort of Homecoming: The Effects of Incarceration on Men's Housing Stability Amanda Geller & Marah Curtis

FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010
Session 104: Neighborhood Processes and Effects. Early parenthood in a community context: Neighborhood conditions, race-ethnicity, and parenting stress Lydia Franco, Kathleen Pottick, & Chien-Chung Huang
Session 138: Men’s Roles in Families and Relationships. Fathers’ involvement and fathers’ wellbeing over children’s first five years Marcia Carlson & Kimberly Turner

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2010
Session 180: Fathers and Their Children.Cooperation, conflict, or something in-between? Unmarried fathers’ co-parenting experiences and early involvement with children Maureen Waller
Child support and child development Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Katherine Magnuson, & Lawrence Berger

Fragile Families Working Group

The schedule for the Fragile Families Working Group for Spring 2010 may be found here.

Recent Publications

BOOKS

The Effects of Welfare and Child Support Policies on the Incidence of Marriage Following a Nonmarital Birth by Jean Knab, Irv Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Emily Moiduddin, Cynthia Osborne   In: Welfare Reform and Its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor by Hames P. Ziliak (Ed.)

RESEARCH BRIEFS

January 2010- Brief 46 "CPS Involvement in Families with Social Fathers"

December 2009 - Brief 45 "Low Income Fathers' Access to Health Insurance"

Working Papers

2009-24-FF " Mother' Investments in Child Health in the U.S. and U.K.: A Comparative Lens on the Immigrant 'Paradox' " by Margot Jackson, Sara McLanahan, & Kathleen Kiernan

2009-23-FF " Religious Heterogamy and Relationship Stability: A Comparison of Married and Cohabiting Unions " by Richard J. Petts

2009-22-FF "Fathers' Religious Involvment and Early Childhood Behavior " by Richard J. Petts