Kinship care, where relatives or close family friends care for children, has deep historical roots in many communities. Kin caregivers often need resources like financial help, child care, health care, transportation, and legal services. Mississippi’s Kinship Care Navigator Program (KCNP) connects caregivers to these supports, but demand exceeds supply, leaving many on waitlists. Although early… Continue reading Evaluation of the Kinship Care Navigator Program in Mississippi: Child Welfare Outcomes and Family Resource Needs
Research Theme: Family Demography
Covid-19 Effects on Children & Families: 2021 Follow-Up of the PSID Child Development Supplement
The Child Development Supplement (CDS) is an integral and on-going component of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families that began in 1968. With data collected on the same families and their descendants for 41 waves over 52 years (as of 2020), PSID is… Continue reading Covid-19 Effects on Children & Families: 2021 Follow-Up of the PSID Child Development Supplement
Health, Wellbeing, and the Social Networks of Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are estimated to be among the most costly health conditions in America, with the bulk of the costs stemming from the provision of long-term services and supports: that is, help with everyday activities, such as bathing, dressing, grooming, using the toilet, eating, and moving around. Family and friends provide most… Continue reading Health, Wellbeing, and the Social Networks of Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer’s Disease
Fragile Families Third Generation
The intergenerational persistence of poor health and poverty and the quest to understand underlying processes underscore the importance of rich multigenerational data. Very few existing datasets contain comprehensive information on social, environmental, and biological factors over the life course and across generations; lack of such data has seriously limited attempts to identify the processes shaping… Continue reading Fragile Families Third Generation
Spanking and hitting children: Trends and changes in risk factors in consecutive, longitudinal, national samples of parents from 1993-2022
The long-term goals of this research are to capitalize on existing investments in the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study – the only annual survey with measures of spanking and hitting a child – to rigorously surveil trends in parental physical violence and to examine risk factors for violence over time. The overall objectives in this… Continue reading Spanking and hitting children: Trends and changes in risk factors in consecutive, longitudinal, national samples of parents from 1993-2022
Labriola,Joseph Mark
I am a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center. My research uses survey and administrative data to examine the roots of racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the contemporary United States. My current work primarily focuses on racial inequalities in housing and wealth. I have also published on the causes of… Continue reading Labriola,Joseph Mark
Friedman,Esther M
Esther Friedman is a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center, where she also serves as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Dr. Friedman is a sociologist whose research examines how families and communities facilitate the health and wellbeing of older adults. Much of her recent work focuses on… Continue reading Friedman,Esther M
Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science
Across the past five decades, data creation investments in the U.S. and Western Europe have spurred dramatic breakthroughs in the social and behavioral sciences. The creation of large scientific studies of human behavior and social experience in the general population form a crucial cornerstone of these investments. Because the data from these studies are so… Continue reading Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science
Migration, family context, and child health
As international labor migration becomes a more common livelihood strategy globally, this widespread population and social change has profound demographic and health consequences, including for young children left behind by migrating parents or family members. Many children left behind receive remittance income from migrant parents or family members. However, identifying the effects of this additional… Continue reading Migration, family context, and child health
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics
The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) was founded at the University of Michigan Institute of Social Research in 2019. The mission of CID is to: produce cutting-edge research on social inequality, especially wealth inequality, train the next generation of inequality scholars, and build data infrastructure and increase data accessibility. We… Continue reading Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics