Cyclical, Intergenerational, and Life Course Measure and Social Behavior: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Investigators:   Frank P. Stafford, Robert F. Schoeni

Additional supplemental funding via NSF interagency transfer from NIA ($199,902), HUD ($95,600) and forward funding from NSF ($821,040): Total = $1,116,542. This additional funding will:

- continue the post-processing activities of Wave 34 data;

- continue the preproduction and begin data collection of Wave 35 data;

- proceed with enhancements and upgrades to the web-based PSID data and documentation center;

- continue the sponsorship of educational tutorials that enable less technically sophisticated researchers and students to learn to use the PSID for specific projects;

- create special web archives and documentation for the wealth and pension variables in the PSID, and to organize a network of researchers using these data;

- conduct research and enhance the cross generational links in the PSID data;

- use multi-generational data in the PSID, and the high-quality death data (confirmed by family members) to provide data under sensitive contract on mortality and website functionality that will facilitate the use of these data;

- provide funding for the data analysis of the differences in pension and financial market participation of those ages 30-59 by gender and for white, African American, Asian, and Hispanic;

- continue data collection of the questions about housing for 2007 and support the creation of complex indicators of poverty, including needs standards, and the generation of complex variables; and

- support the processing of the raw mortgage data to create the complex variable net equity in primary residence for owners, a processing step which has become more detailed and complex in recent years, with increases in the refinancing of primary mortgages.

Funding Period: 12/01/2006 to 11/30/2008


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