Work

The Longitudinal Revolution: Sociological Research at the 50-Year Milestone of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Year: 2020

Type: review

Abstract: anniversary in 2018. Initially designed to assess the nation's progress in combatting poverty, PSID's scope broadened quickly to a variety of topics and fields of inquiry. To date, sociologists are the second-most frequent users of PSID data after economists. Here, we describe the ways in which PSID's history reflects shifts in social science scholarship and funding priorities over half a century, take stock of the most important sociological breakthroughs it facilitated, in particular those relying on the longitudinal structure of the data, and critically assess the unique advantages and limitations of the PSID and surveys like it for today's sociological scholarship.

Source: Annual Review of Sociology

DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054821

Authors: Fabian T. Pfeffer, Paula Fomby, Noura Insolera

Institutions: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research

Language: English

Topic: Data Analysis and Archiving

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Institute on Aging, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Health and Well-being Over the Life Course and Across Multiple Generations, Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences, Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children across Generations