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.

Fragile Families Working Group

Fragile Families Working Groups will be held September 23, October 7 and 21, November 11, and December 16.

See the full fall 2010 schedule

In the News

Parents Who Clash More Likely to Spank Kids – An article from U.S. News and World report discussed a study led by Catherine Taylor that used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to show an association between aggressive or violent behavior between parents and the likelihood that they use corporal punishment on their children.

Kate Jaeger has been promoted to Fragile Families Project Director!

Upcoming Conference

October 18- The Family: America's Smallest School, ETS's Addressing Achievement Gaps Symposium, Washington, D.C.

Recent Publications

BOOKS

Fathers in Fragile Families by Marcia Carlson & Sara McLanahan In: The Role of the Father in Child Development, 5th Edition by Michael E. Lamb (Ed.)

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

2010-08-FF "Maternal Depression and Childhood Health Inequalities" by Kristin Turney

2010-07-FF "Chronic and Proximate Depression among Mothers: Implications for Child Well-being" by Kristin Turney

2010-06-FF "A Sort of Homecoming: Incarceration and the Housing Security of Urban Men" by Amanda Geller. & Marah Curtis