With Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, and Sandra Black I recently conducted follow-up surveys of the sophomore (in 2013-2014) and senior (in 2014-2015) cohorts of High School and Beyond (HS&B).  These ~30,000 people were first interviewed in high school in 1980; they are now in their early 50s.  The full HS&B data will provide leverage in understanding the roles of education, cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and ascribed attributes in shaping work, health, and cognitive well-being at midlife.
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The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) has followed a cohort of 10,317 members of the Wisconsin high school class of 1957 and their families for more than half a century. In ongoing work I am (a) modeling the impacts of lifelong trajectories of work and family roles on health and well-being and (b) linking WLS files to 1940 U.S. Census records to understand the long-term effects of neighborhood socioeconomic, geographic, and physical characteristics.
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is rarely used as a longitudinal data resource because necessary record linkage and data integration are unusually and prohibitively complicated.  With colleagues at MPC I am developing integrated data, dissemination software, and metadata that will make longitudinal analyses of CPS data radically easier.  We will provide researchers with flexible access to integrated and well-documented longitudinal data across all CPS surveys.
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IPUMS-USA provides harmonized data on people in the U.S. census and American Community Survey, from 1850 to the present.  I am working with a team at MPC to create a massive micro-data resource comprising the entire population of the United States as enumerated in the 1940 Census.  I am also working with colleagues to link 1940 Census records to the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, the Health and Retirement Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and other modern surveys.