# The Transition from Childhood into Adulthood among PSID Children, 2017 and 2019

> **NIH NIH P01** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $856,108

## Abstract

The Transition from Childhood into Adulthood among PSID Children, 2017 and 2019
 In this project, we will continue and expand the collection and distribution of data on young adults in
families participating in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). PSID is a longitudinal survey of a
nationally-representative sample of U.S. families that began in 1968. It has collected data on the same families
and their descendants for 39 waves over 47 years (as of 2015). In the 1990s, PSID began collecting rich and
detailed data on children born into these families and, starting in the mid-2000s, has closely followed these
children's transition into adulthood through the PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS). Young
adults in PSID families become members of the Core PSID themselves and receive the full interview when
they form their own economically-independent households—and are followed by the study for the rest of their
lives. In Research Project 1, we will collect two waves of the PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS)
in 2017 and 2019. We will undertake a major expansion of the TAS study sample and will substantially revise
the TAS questionnaire, adding new and revised content on topics such as childhood health, fertility-related
behavior and pregnancy intentions, and computer skills. Interviews will be undertaken with approximately
3,273 young adults in 2017 and 3,378 in 2019. A major portion of the sample will comprise of young adults who
previously participated the original Child Development Supplement (CDS), which began collecting detailed and
extensive data on children in PSID families in 1997 on a cohort of approximately 3,600 children aged 0–12
years, or in the new PSID Child Development Supplement (CDS-2014), which is collecting information on all
children in PSID families who were born after the launch of the original CDS in 1997. Many of the respondents
from the original CDS cohort will have participated in one or more prior waves of TAS, and this study will allow
us to continue tracing their transition into adulthood. The specific aims of this Research Project are to collect
approximately 70 minutes of information in 2017 and 2019 from all PSID youth aged 18–28 years and to
document and distribute these data through the publicly available and free PSID Online Data Center and
promote the use of the combined CDS-TAS data archive. These data are vital for our understanding of the
contemporary transition from adolescence into adulthood in the U.S. within its intergenerational family context.
By augmenting the panel information in the CDS and Core PSID, this project will provide a rich CDS-TAS-PSID
panel of children from birth and preschool through primary and secondary school and then through entry into
the world of work or of higher education in conjunction with early family formation. Although a full and detailed
panel from birth to young adulthood is valuable in its own right, the information on these children will grow
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9938652
- **Project number:** 5P01HD087155-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** NARAYAN SASTRY
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $856,108
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9938652

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9938652, The Transition from Childhood into Adulthood among PSID Children, 2017 and 2019 (5P01HD087155-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9938652. Licensed CC0.

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