This project will continue the collection of data on children in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) that is currently funded under NICHD Grant R01HD52646. The existing grant supported the PSID Child Development Supplement, which followed a cohort of children in PSID families who were 0?12 years of age in 1997 through three waves… Continue reading Transitions from Preschool through High School: Family, Schools & Neighborhoods
Research Theme: Human Development & Life Course Studies
Youth Policy Lab
The University of Michigan Youth Policy Lab is a partnership between Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. The Youth Policy Lab helps community and government agencies make better decisions by measuring what really works. We are data experts who believe that the government… Continue reading Youth Policy Lab
Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (MTF)
Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing epidemiological and etiological research and reporting project that began in 1975. In addition to being a basic research study, MTF has become one of the nation’s most relied upon sources of information on emerging trends in illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among American adolescents, college students,… Continue reading Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (MTF)