# Health and Well-being Over the Life Course and Across Multiple Generations

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2021 · $2,532,791

## Abstract

Project Summary
 This application proposes to collect, process, and disseminate data in the 2021 and 2023 waves of the
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative
sample of U.S. families that was begun in 1968. A cornerstone of the nation's social science research
infrastructure, PSID has collected 41 waves of data over more than 50 years on original families and their
descendants. Its long-term measures of economic and social wellbeing allow study of the dynamics of social
and behavioral processes and how they interact with health over the life course. Its design of following children
of sample members when they become economically independent supports study of the intergenerational
transmission of socioeconomic circumstances and health. Nearly 6,000 publications over its 50-plus year
history attest to the PSID's broad scientific reach. This project will collect, process, and distribute data on
health, wealth, and time use for nearly 11,000 families in PSID's 2021 and 2023 waves and collect saliva
samples to support multi-generational genomic analysis. Specifically, the project will: 1. Collect health, wealth
and time use data in the core PSID 2021 and 2023 waves; 2. Collect and store saliva samples from adults in
PSID 2021 in order to obtain DNA from three generations of the same families (in conjunction with PSID's
Child Development Supplement saliva collection); and 3. Process and distribute core files; create life course
and family context files including a new harmonized PSID Social, Health, and Economic Longitudinal File
(SHELF) and extended files on family relationships and complexity; and provide user support and training.
After collection, survey data will be processed and distributed via PSID's Online Data Center, which allows
users to create customized extracts and codebooks. Sensitive data will be made available to qualified users
under contract with the University of Michigan. Saliva samples will be stored for genotyping in the ISR
Biospecimen Lab. With the proposed aims, PSID is poised to accelerate the study of life course and multi-
generational influences on health in middle and late life in a genealogical context.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9968503
- **Project number:** 2R01AG040213-11
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** David Scott Johnson
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $2,532,791
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2011-09-01 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9968503

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9968503, Health and Well-being Over the Life Course and Across Multiple Generations (2R01AG040213-11). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9968503. Licensed CC0.

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