How family life, births, and parenting shape children's futures
Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children across Generations
This project uses a long-running national family survey to learn how parents' relationships, births, and investments affect children and later generations.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11047851 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If you join, you'll be asked about family relationships, fertility, newborns, and how time and money are spent on children. The 2025 PSID wave adds three focused modules on family dynamics, fertility/newborns, and education and includes questions about perceived unfair treatment. PSID follows the same families and their descendants over decades, letting researchers link childhood experiences to adult and next-generation outcomes. Participation usually means completing interviews or questionnaires conducted by the PSID team.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal participants are U.S. households across generations—parents, newborns, children, and adult descendants—who can take part in survey interviews.
Not a fit: People seeking immediate medical treatment for a specific health condition or those uninterested in family- or population-level research are unlikely to get direct personal health benefits.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: Findings could inform policies and programs that better support parents, children's health, education, and long-term economic stability.
How similar studies have performed: Yes—PSID is a long-standing, nationally representative survey that has produced many influential findings on family, fertility, and child outcomes.
Where this research is happening
Ann Arbor, United States
- University of Michigan at Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Crossley, Thomas Fraser — University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- Study coordinator: Crossley, Thomas Fraser
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.