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Work from the Fragile Families Challenge was recently featured on NPR's Invisibilia podcast, which combines human interest stories with current scientific research to explore the unseeable forces which control human behavior and s
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We are pleased to announce that the data from our sixth wave of data collection, the Year 15 follow-up wave, are now available for download through the OPR Data Archive!
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What would happen if hundreds of social scientists and data scientists worked together on a scientific challenge to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the United States?
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The FFCWS Publication Archive has been redesigned and is now available with new search features and abstracts!
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The Fragile Families Challenge received over 3,000 submissions from more 150 teams between the pilot launch on March 3, 2017, and the close on August 1, 2017. Each team’s final submission score on the holdout set is provided at this link.
Events
Presentations
FFCWS at PAA
Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2018
Wed, Jul 11, 2018 (All day) to Fri, Jul 13, 2018 (All day)
FF Working Group
“Growing up poor but doing well: Contextual factors that predict academic success”
Thu, May 3, 2018, 12:00 pm
Speaker(s):
Radha Jagannathan
Louis Donnelly
“Copy Number Variation as a Source of Genetic Heterogeneity”
Thu, May 10, 2018, 12:00 pm
Speaker(s):
Kalsea Koss
“Genetic Main Effects versus Genetic Moderators: Gene-Environment Interactions in Child Problem Behaviors”
Thu, May 17, 2018, 12:00 pm
Speaker(s):
Rebecca Johnson
News and Highlights
Work from the Fragile Families Challenge was recently featured on NPR's Invisibilia podcast, which combines human interest stories with current scientific research to explore the unseeable forces which control human behavior and s
Teen girls who are attracted to other girls are far more likely than other students to be suspended or expelled from school, according to a study by Joel Mittleman, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Princeton University.
We are pleased to announce that the data from our sixth wave of data collection, the Year 15 follow-up wave, are now available for download through the OPR Data Archive!
