Cognition is the mental processes and abilities involved in acquiring, storing, retrieving and
using it for decision making. Cognitive decline due to aging, lifestyle factor, chronic health …

We describe the promise of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) for
developmental researchers. FFCWS is a birth cohort study of 4,898 children born in 1998 …

Background Recent research has shown that the likelihood of children experiencing
intergenerational, upward income mobility depends on the community in which they are …

We study the association between sociospatial neighborhood conditions throughout
childhood and educational attainment in adulthood. Using unique longitudinal microdata for …

Stewards of social data face a fundamental tension. On one hand, they want to make their
data accessible to as many researchers as possible to facilitate new discoveries. At the …

This paper combines data on family, school, neighborhood, and city contexts with survey
data from the Year 9 (n= 2,193) and Year 15 (n= 2, 236) Fragile Families and Child …

This study assesses the relationship between academic achievement and body mass index
for age (BMI) trajectories across childhood and adolescence, and investigates how this …

Importance Upward income mobility is associated with better health outcomes and reduced
stress. However, opportunities are unequally distributed, particularly so for those in rural …

Living in a neighborhood with high levels of intergenerational mobility is associated with
better childhood cognition and behavior as well as adult health. Nevertheless, it is unclear if …

Population-level analyses are inherently complex due to a myriad of latent confounding
effects that underlie the interdisciplinary topics of research interest. Despite the mounting …