Data Alerts

May 15, 2008

Baseline, One-Year, Three-Year Core and Three-Year In-Home files have been re-released and are availble for download from the OPR data archive. These files now contain the final versions of the weights. Please visit the documentation page to review changes to the files in "Introduction to the Fragile Families Public Use Data."

Recent Publications

Research Briefs

April 2008 - Brief 42 "Parental Incarceration and Child Wellbeing in Fragile Families"

Working Papers

2008-13-FF "The Effects of Maternal Employment on Childhood Obesity in the United States" by Jackie Araneo

2008-12-FF "Relationship Transitions and Maternal Parenting" by Audrey Beck, Carey Cooper, Sara McLanahan, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

2008-11-FF "Family Structure and Child Health Outcomes in Fragile Families" by Sharon Bzostek and Audrey Beck

2008-10-FF "Parental Incarceration and Child Wellbeing: Implications for Urban Families" by Amanda Geller, Irwin Garfinkel, Carey Cooper, and Ronald Mincy

2008-09-FF " Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families" by Amanda Geller, Irwin Garfinkel, and Bruce Western

Fragile Families Working Group

The Spring working group series has ended. Please check back during the summer for the Fall 2008 schedule.

News

In March 2008, Meadows, McLanahan, and Brooks-Gunn's "Family Structure and Maternal Health Trajectories" was published in the American Sociological Review.

Papers using the Fragile Families data were in more than 10 sessions at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in New Orleans. We have compiled a list of the presentations we have identified that use Fragile Families data.

Unmarried Couples with Children, a book edited by Paula England and Kathryn Edin, was recently published by the Russell Sage Foundation.  The book is a compilation of papers that use Fragile Families' core data and TLC3 qualitative data to study the lives of nearly 50 children born to unmarried parents.