Center for Family and Demographic Research

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 

Friday, January 25
1:30-2:30 in the CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Overview of CFDR Resources for Analyzing Add Health Data

Thursday, February 28 - Joint meeting with the Crime and Violence in Context Working Group
2:30-3:30 in the CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Emily Herbst, "The Propensity of Gang Membership among Hispanic Immigrant Youth" 

Friday, March 29 - Joint meeting with the Crime and Violence in Context Working Group
2:30-3:30 in the CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
April Holbrook, "The Impact of Military Service on Violence" 

Friday, April 26 - Joint meeting with the Crime and Violence in Context Working Group
2:30-3:30 in the CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Cassady Pitt, "Poverty and Delinquency: Religion and Extracurricular Activities as Coping and Capital”

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - Joint meeting with the Crime and Violence in Context Working Group
2:00-3:00 in the CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Lori Burrington and Danielle Kuhl
"The Salience of Adult Social Bonds Revisited: Affiliational Drinking and Educational Achievement"

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - Joint meeting with the Working Group on Grant Preparation
11:00-12:00 in the CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Ray Swisher, Karen Guzzo, and Kelly Balistreri
"Contextual Influences on Racial and Ethnic Variations in the Transition to Adulthood"

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - Joint meeting with the Crime and Violence in Context working group
2:30-4:30 in CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room
Student practice talks in preparation for the American Society of Criminology Conference.

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

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?" 

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”  

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

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” 

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

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"

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”

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”