The application for the 2025 Summer Data Workshop is now available and due by February 17, 2025, at 11:59 PM EST. Hosted by the Columbia Population Research Center, this workshop will take place June 11-13 at Columbia University in New York City.
The workshop is designed for early-career…
The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) leadership are thrilled to announce FFCWS has received two grants through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) which will enable data collection with our focal children around the time of their 27th birthdays as well as data…
Kathy Edin and Jane Waldfogel, Co-Principal Investigators of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) are thrilled to announce that Anna Haskins, the Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, will be joining the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study as a co-investigator!
Anna…
The FFCWS is thrilled to announce that the FFCWS public data are also now available through the DSDR website.
Researchers can access the data from the DSDR…
Dr. Matthew Salganik and Dr. Kathy Edin, PIs of the FF Challenge collaborative study, were invited to present their data science and social science collaborative research at the June 3 Advisory Council meeting of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). They shared their paper on “The…
We are pleased to announce that our seventh wave of data is now available.
Register for “What’s new with the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study? Exploring twenty-two years of data with the data support team” at PAA 2024.
The Columbia Population Research Center will host the 2024 Future of Families Summer Data Workshop during the week of June 12-14, 2024
The FFCWS team is pleased to announce that two new data file updates in the Public and Restricted Use Data.
The FFCWS team is pleased to announce that new data files have been added to the public and restricted use data!
Congratulations to FFCWS Co-PI, Kathryn Edin, for her acceptance into the American Philosophical Society!
Congratulations to FFCWS Co-PI, Jane Waldfogel, for her nomination and appointment to the National Academies of Sciences Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF).
Researchers from institutions located outside of the U.S. are now eligible to apply for restricted use data!
Data alert! Several data files have been added and updated, including both restricted data and public data.
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study team is pleased to announce that our name has formally changed to The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study.
The Columbia Population Research Center will host the FFCWS Summer Data Workshop from June 14 to June 16, 2023.
We are excited to officially launch our updated Publications Archive website! Learn more today...
Dr Kathryn Edin, director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) and PI of FFCWS, is pleased to announce the appointment of Regina Foglia to the position of Office/Business Manager of the CRCW effective 3/21/22. In this new role, Regina will conduct day to day and strategic human resources, external and internal communications,…
Marta Tienda is the Maurice P During Professor in Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Emeritus; and joins CRCW as a Visiting Senior Research Scholar.
Dr. Tienda's research has focused on race and ethnic differences in various metrics of social inequality – ranging from poverty and welfare to education and…
The Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) Year 15 Sleep Actigraphy Dataset has been added to Princeton University's Office of Population Research (OPR) data archive as a separate public file for download. It contains participant-level data that…
Sara McLanahan passed away on December 31st at 3:15 p.m., just a few days after her eighty-first birthday and five months after her retirement as the Princeton's William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs.
Sara was at home with all of her children and her husband of forty-one years, Irv Garfinkel. Her family…
Dr. Kathryn Edin, director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW), is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Sarah Gold to the position of CRCW Director, Research and Policy, effective 1/1/2022. In this new role, Sarah will maintain day to day leadership of Center operations, lead policy outreach based on the Center’s and its…
Researchers at Princeton University, Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the University of Michigan received a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD 1R01HD103669) to study the third generation of participants of the Future of…
Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Founding PI of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, is retiring this spring. Please join us in celebrating the many accomplishments and contributions of Dr. McLanahan!
A core strength of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing study is its significant representation of Black and Latinx families. Many researchers have used these data to study the impacts of mass incarceration, police contact, and school discipline, which disproportionately affect communities of color.
Over the past months, we have…
Researchers at Princeton University’s Department of Molecular Biology and the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing (CRCW) will receive a $9-million grant from the…
Recent publications using the Future of Families & Child Wellbeing data provide a family-wide view of the effects of parental incarceration on child behavior, family dynamics and and child support, as well as the effects of police contact on child health.
Recent publications
If hundreds of scientists created predictive algorithms with high-quality data, how well would the best predict life outcomes? Not very well. The paper summarizing the methods and results of the FFCWS Challenge led by Matt Salganik and Ian Lundberg has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of…
Sara McLanahan and Kathy Edin would like to announce the promotion of Kristin Catena to Research Manager of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) Projects.
Kristin came to the study as a part time Researcher in 2014 and was hired full time as a Research Specialist II in…
Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Co-PI Kathy Edin spoke to Spotlight On Poverty and Opportunity about the "Index of Deep Disadvantage", a measure of poverty that …
A new Index of Deep Disadvantage seeks to unpack poverty beyond income-based measures to other dimensions of disadvantage, including health and social mobility.
The index, developed by researchers at Princeton University’s Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions Initiative, reveals…
Research coming from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study collaborative project Biopsychosocial Determinants of Sleep and Wellbeing for Teens in FFCWS, led by PI's Lauren Hale and Orfeu Buxton, has helped to inform a recent report on school start times from the Pennsylvania Joint State Commission on School Start Times. "Buxton,…
FFCWS Co-PI Jane Waldfogel testified to the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress on September 10th, 2019. Waldfogel talked about how current public policies improve family and child well-being, and what needs to be done to better support American families in the future.
To learn more,…
We are happy to announce our plans for the seventh wave of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study!
Fieldwork will begin in 2020, when our focal children are approximately 22 years old. This wave will include a survey with the “focal child” as a young adult as well as with the person who was the Primary Caregiver (PCG) at Age…
John Krinjak from ABC6 News, Providence, RI, interviewed Jayanti Owens about her findings on racial disparities in school discipline. Looking at approximately 5,000 elementary students across the country, Owens and FFCWS Co…
The National Sleep Foundation has named Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD, Co-PI of "Biopsychosocial Determinants of Sleep and Wellbeing for Teens in FFCWS," as the next editor-in-chief for its journal Sleep Health. Buxton is professor of biobehavioral health and director of the Sleep, Health & Society Collaboratory at Pennsylvania State…
Colter Mitchell, the Principal Investigator on the "Adolescent Wellbeing and Brain Development" collaborative study, received the…
On Thursday May 16, a group of international experts will make up a panel at Stony Brook University that tackles the question: What effect is digital media having on the brain and even body development of children?
The distinguished panel includes Co-PI of "Biopsychosocial Determinants of Sleep and Wellbeing for Teens in…
FFCWS Co-PI Kathy Edin's paper "The Tenuous Attachments of Working Class Men" was recently cited in the New York Times opinion piece by David Brooks, The Rise of the Haphazard Self. This…
Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Co-PI Sara McLanahan received the Population Association of America's Robert J. Lapham Award at this year's annual meeting. The Robert J. Lapham Award recognizes members of PAA who contributed to the population profession through the application of demographic…
Future of Families Co-Principal Investigators, Sara McLanahan and Kathy Edin, have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Sara McLanahan is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and director of the Center for Research on Child Well-Being…
Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Co-PI Kathryn Edin recently spoke on the "Future Hindsight" podcast about her work in "the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family, life, and neighborhood contexts through direct, in-depth observations of the lives of low-income populations". In this episode, they discuss "the evisceration of…
Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Co-PI Sara McLanahan was interviewed about the study for this BBC article from February 5th, titled "Do children in two-parent families do better?"
The article highlights some of the findings from the FFCWS and compares the results…
We at the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study are happy to congratulate Kristin Turney for being named a RSF Visiting Scholar for the class of 2019–2020!
Turney will…
Lenna Nepomnyaschy of the Rutgers School of Social Work recently spoke about her work with FFCWS data for the Poverty Research and Policy Podcast at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty. In this episode, she talks about a study she did with Dan Miller, Maureen…
FFCWS Co-PI Jane Waldfogel gave a presentation at the international seminar "Public policies in family and childhood. Lessons from international experience," held during November in Santiago, Chile, and organized by the Universidad Católica’s
FFCWS Co-PI, Kathryn Edin, and colleagues are launching a new study - the American Voices Project - a joint initiative of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Princeton University’s Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, and the American Institutes for Research. You can now listen to…
FFCWS Co-PI, Kathryn Edin presented her research on fatherhood Thursday, November 29 at "The Father Factor: A Critical Link in Building Strong Families and Communities", at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C.
If you missed it, you can see Ascend at the Aspen Institute and GOOD+ Foundation share research, highlight promising…
We are happy to announce the Fall 2018 Re-Release of the FFCWS public data and documentation! This re-release includes new and improved data files for all FFCWS data from baseline through Year 15, along with improved accompanying documentation. Year 15 Weights are now also available.
Data users may see the…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the FFCWS Metadata Explorer! The Metadata Explorer website allows users to browse and sort FFCWS variables by topic, wave, respondent, focal person, scales, survey, source, and variable type or to perform more detailed queries and/or text searches in…