Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
A core strength of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study is its significant representation of Black and Latinx families. Many researchers have used these data to study the impacts of mass incarceration, police contact, and school discipline, which disproportionately affect communities of color.
Researchers at Princeton University’s Department of Molecular Biology and the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) will receive a $9-million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s
Recent publications using the Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing data provide a family-wide view of the effects of parental incarceration on child behavior, family dynamics and and child support, as well as the effects of police contact on child health.
If hundreds of scientists created predictive algorithms with high-quality data, how well would the best predict life outcomes? Not very well.
A new Index of Deep Disadvantage seeks to unpack poverty beyond income-based measures to other dimensions of disadvantage, including health and social mobility.
Events
Presentations
Fragile Families Summer Data Training Workshop 2021
Mon, Jun 14, 2021 (All day) to Fri, Jun 18, 2021 (All day)
FF Working Group
Measuring the Predictability of Life Trajectories: A Large-Scale Computational Exploration
Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker(s):
Emily Cantrell
Pranay Anchuri
Matthew Salganik
The Role of State-level Policies in Promoting Economic Wellbeing
Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker(s):
Sarah Gold
Alex Haralampoudis
Early Results from the Study for Adolescent to Adult Neurodevelopment COVID Supplement
Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker(s):
Colter Mitchell
Christopher Monk
Luke Hyde
Nestor Lopez-Duran
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News and Highlights
FFCWS in the News
A core strength of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study is its significant representation of Black and Latinx families.
Recent publications using the Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing data provide a family-wide view of the effects of parental incarceration on...
