Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research (EdSHARe) is an interdisciplinary, multisite, collaborative research team investigating the intersecting socioeconomic, institutional, and biological pathways through which education and early life conditions impact later-life health and cognition. EdSHARe now consists of two long-term cohorts that began as education studies but that have been repurposed for research on health and aging: The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) and High School and Beyond (HSB).
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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.
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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.
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The 2021 wave of HSB data collection was supported by the National Institute on Aging (R01AG058719) and by the Alzheimer's Association (SG-20717567). The 2024 wave of NLS-72 data collection is supported by the National Institute on Aging (R01AG078533).
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Funded by NIH Grants R01AG009775; R01AG033285; and R01AG041868
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Funded by NIH Grant #2R01HD067258 — Integrating, Preserving, and Disseminating Linked CPS Data
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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
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