Center for Family and Demographic Research
Add Health Working Group


The Add Health working group provides CFDR faculty affiliates and graduate students the opportunity to meet other users of National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), share information on these data, present preliminary ideas or analyses, and collaborate on projects. (You can find out more about Add Health using this link: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth.) Please contact Kara Joyner if you are interested in joining this working group. 

Help Resources:
    Unrestricted Public Use Add Health data
    
Restricted Use Add Health data  

2012 Spring

Friday, February 10, 2012
1:30-2:30 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room, 7C Williams Hall
Julia Mack
"Romantic Partnerships and Maturation: Understanding Criminal Involvement in Early Adulthood."

2011 Fall

November 4, 2011
2:30-3:30 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Lecinda Yevchak
“Teen Dating Violence Victimization in a Life-Course Perspective:  Linkages to Delinquency and Adult Criminal Behavior”

October 7, 2011
2:30-3:30 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Cassady Pitt
"Religion and Delinquency: Does Neighborhood Poverty Moderate this Relationship?" 

2011 Summer

July 29, 2011
Noon-1:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Tara Warner
“Contextualizing Multiple Dimensions of Structural Inequality: A Neighborhood-Centered Approach to Place” 
2011 Spring

February 4, 2011
2:00-4:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Greg Rocheleau
"Adolescent Employment and Substance Use"
2010 Fall

December 10, 2010
1:00-2:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room 
CFDR Staff 
“Measures of Family Structure / Relationship Status across Different Waves of Add Health” 

November 4, 2010
1:00-2:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Danielle Kuhl
“Transitions in Context:  A Multilevel, Life Course Approach to Binge Drinking in Early Adulthood” 

2010 Summer

July 19, 2010
1:00-2:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Unique Shaw
“Parental Incarceration and Children’s Educational Aspirations” 
 2010 Spring

February 12, 2010
12:00-1:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Kara Joyner
“Analyses of Union Formation in Young Adulthood”
Survival Analysis Handout
Survival Analysis PowerPoint

March 1, 2010
12:00-1:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Heidi Lyons
“Add Health Wave Four”

May 21, 2010
10:00-11:00 am in CFDR Conference Room
Heidi Lyons
"Constructing Measures of Co-residential Union Timing and Status Based on Wave Four"

Fall 2009

September 11, 2009
2:00-3:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Andrew Wilczak and Danielle C. Kuhl
“Youth Violence and Transitions to Marriage in Young Adulthood”

October 23, 2009
2:00-3:00 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Heidi Lyons
“Adult Identity in Emerging Adulthood: The Importance of Educational Status”

December 11, 2009
2:15-3:15 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Krista Payne and Kristy Krivickas
“The Effect of Family Structure and Parental Need on Co-residing Young Adults’ Household Financial Contributions”

Spring 2009

April 3, 2009 Introductory Meeting
3:00-4:00 in Tomeh

May 8, 2009
3:00-4:00 in Tomeh
Kara Joyner and Natalee Gooden
“Sex Ratio Imbalances and Family Formation”

June 2, 2009
10:00-11:00 in Tomeh
Mike Roettger and Ray Swisher
“Race and Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Son’s Delinquency and Arrest”