The Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan, in cooperation with the U.S. Census Bureau and Cornell University, proposes to link the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to economic, business, and employment data from the Census Bureau. The HRS surveys more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. It is… Continue reading A Census-Enhanced Health and Retirement Study: Enhancing an HRS Dataset with Characteristics of Employers
Research Theme: Life Course
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
Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS)
The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) is a consortium based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) IRIS is designed to transform the successful Universities: Measuring the Impacts of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Science (UMETRICS) initiative developed by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation into a permanent national resource… Continue reading Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS)
Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA)
The Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA) promotes new research on the demography and economics of aging across four signature themes: chronic disease and disability; life course determinants of late-life health and well-being; aging, genetics, and social science; and economics of savings and retirement. The Center also promotes the wide use of Michigan’s… Continue reading Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA)
National Health and Aging Trends Study
The overarching goals of this project are: (1) to promote scientific inquiry into late-life disability trends and dynamics, their antecedents and correlates, and disparities therein and (2) to advance study of the social and economic consequences of late-life disability for individuals, families, and society. To achieve these aims, project has the following goals: Collect data… Continue reading National Health and Aging Trends Study
Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) Longitudinal Study
Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) is the largest study of mental health risk and resilience ever conducted among military personnel. Army STARRS investigators looked for factors that help protect a Soldier’s mental health and factors that put a Soldier’s mental health at risk. Army STARRS ran from July 2009 through… Continue reading Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) Longitudinal Study
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world’s longest running household panel survey. With five decades of data collected on the same families and their descendants, the PSID is a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically-based social science research in the U.S. and the world. With its long-term measures of economic and… Continue reading Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
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)
Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is the largest national panel study of Americans over age 50. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration, the HRS provides decades of cutting-edge, free publicly available data on aging, supporting research, policy, and innovation to address the challenges of a rapidly… Continue reading Health and Retirement Study (HRS)