# Covid-19 Effects on Children & Families: 2021 Follow-Up of the PSID Child Development Supplement

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2024 · $663,689

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
 This project will conduct the 2021 wave of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the Panel Study of
Income Dynamics (PSID). CDS-21 will reinterview children and families who participated in the 2019 wave of
CDS. In 2019, CDS interviews of children's primary caregivers (PCGs, typically mothers) and older children
(ages 12–17 years) were completed for most of the sample in the five months prior to the middle of March
2019, when the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns began to occur in the United States. Our goal is
to collect follow-up CDS interviews in 2021 of PCGs and of older children (ages 12–17 years in 2021) who par-
ticipated in CDS-19, in order to understand the effects of Covid-19 on children's health, family circumstances,
schooling, development, and well-being. CDS is integral and on-going component of PSID, a longitudinal sur-
vey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families that began in 1968. With data collected on the same
families and their descendants for 41 waves over 52 years (as of 2020), PSID is a cornerstone for empirical
social science research in the U.S. Through its long-term measures of economic and social wellbeing, and
based on its weighted representative sample of U.S. families that now includes two major immigrant refresher
samples, the study has advanced research on the dynamics of social, economic, demographic, and health pro-
cesses and their interrelationships. Five waves of CDS have been conducted: three on the original cohort of
children born between 1985 and 1997 (in 1997, 2002/2003, and 2007/2008) and two waves (in 2014 and
2019) on the next generation of PSID children who were born between 1997 and 2019. This project has two
specific aims. The first is to design and field a follow-up wave of CDS in 2021, collecting reinterview data on
children aged 2–17 years who participated in CDS-19, through interviews with PCGs and older children aged
12–17 years. The second specific aim is to process, document, and distribute the new CDS-21 data, with scale
composites, generated variables, and individual-level links to detailed school data from the National Center for
Education Statistics. This new wave of CDS in 2021 will, in conjunction with data from CDS-14 and CDS-19,
provide unique and valuable prospective panel data to study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown,
and recession. The study will provide comprehensive and rich information on a large, nationally representative
sample of children that includes an over-sample of African Americans and a new refresher sample of children
in immigrant families. These data will be available free of charge through the PSID Online Data Center, which
provides customized extracts and codebooks, detailed study documentation, and comprehensive user educa-
tion and support.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10811660
- **Project number:** 5R01HD104671-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** NARAYAN SASTRY
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $663,689
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-05-01 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10811660

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10811660, Covid-19 Effects on Children & Families: 2021 Follow-Up of the PSID Child Development Supplement (5R01HD104671-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10811660. Licensed CC0.

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