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.

February 4 , 2009

The Five-Year In-Home Fragile Families Data has been released and is available for download from the OPR data archive. Please visit the documentation page to access the release notes, parent survey, activity booklet, codebook, and user's guide.

Fragile Families Working Group

The Fragile Families Working Group will resume again in September 2009.  Please check back later for a schedule of presentations for the Fall 2009 semester.   

Recent Publications

BOOKS

Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life by Mario Small, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.  

Unanticipated Gains analyzes quantitative data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study alongside qualitative case study research to examine the influence that childcare centers have in developing the size and quality of mother's social networks. 

RESEARCH BRIEFS

August 2008 - Brief 43 "Predictors of Homelessness and Doubling Up Among At Risk Families "

Working Papers

2009-06-FF "Associations among Family Environment, Attention, and School Readiness for At-Risk Children " by Rachel Razza, Anne Martin, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

2009-05-FF "Educational Assortative Mating and Children’s School Readiness" by Audrey Beck and Carlos González-Sancho

2009-04-FF "Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status" by Tara Watson and Sara McLanahan