Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Founding PI of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, is retiring this spring. Please join us in celebrating the many accomplishments and contributions of Dr. McLanahan!
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.
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Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Founding PI of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, is...
A core strength of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study is its significant representation of Black and Latinx families.
