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 be meeting throughout the Fall 2009 semester. Click here for our schedule of upcoming presentations.   

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

November 2009 - Brief 44 "Parental Incarceration, Children's School Readiness, and Intervention Needs"

Working Papers

2009-21-FF " Early Childhood Residential Instability and School readiness: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study " by Kathleen Ziol-Guest & Claire McKenna

2009-20-FF "Beyond absenteeism: Father incarceration and its effects on children’s development. " by Amanda Geller, Carey Cooper, Irv Garfinkel, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, & Ron Mincy

2009-19-FF "Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment " by Christopher Wildeman