With Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, and Jennifer Manly I am conducting follow-up surveys of the High School and Beyond cohort.  These ~25,000 people were first interviewed in high school in 1980..  HS&B data - including a 2020-21 follow-up focused on the early-life predictors of cognitive impairment - provide leverage in understanding the roles of education, skills, and childhood social circumstances  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) studying the impact of long-term survey participation on major life outcomes; (b) modeling the impacts of lifelong trajectories of work and family roles on health and well-being; and (c) 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.  Using cutting-edge automatic record linkage technology and drawing on complete count U.S. census data available from IPUMS for the period 1850 to 1940, I am helping to construct millions of individual life histories and trace millions of families over multiple generations..  I am also working with colleagues to link 1940 Census records to the WLS, HRS, PSID, NSHAP, and NHATS.
Funded by NIH Grant #1R01AG058719-01A1 — Educational and Early Life Predictors of Mild Cognitive Impairment: New Evidence about Mediators and Moderators from High School & Beyond
Funded by NIH Grants R01AG009775; R01AG033285; and R01AG041868
Funded by NIH Grant #2R01HD067258 — Integrating, Preserving, and Disseminating Linked CPS Data
​Funded by NIH Grants #1R01AG057679-01A1 — A Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel for Aging Research; #1R01AG050300-01A1 — Linking 1940 U.S. Census Data to Five Modern Surveys of Health and Aging; and #1R21AG054824-01A1 — The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence from a Large Representative Sample of American Twins