The RAND Corporation is a non-profit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND research on children covers the prenatal period up to age 18 and includes areas such as child health and the role of the family unit, neighborhoods, and communities in influencing child well-being. RAND's family-focused research covers additional topics such as marriage and divorce, senior care, and family finances.
Hurry - Letter of intent due this Thursday, March 31
March 29, 2011
Funds are available for supporting secondary analyses of the Head Start Impact Study to answer questions related to the characteristics of effective Head Start centers, classrooms, and teachers.
We are now accepting proposals from prospective guest editors for special issues of the Journal of Family Theory & Review. Our intention is to provide opportunities to advance theory and develop integrative reviews in key areas of family studies.
Not Quite Adults explains the phenomenon of the lengthening duration from high school graduation and attaining what has been the experience of transitioning to adulthood of the past few decades. Young adults are meeting the sociological markers of leaving home, finishing school, finding work, getting married and having kids in a more lengthy and often reordered way.
JuliAnna Smith, Ph.D.; Aline Sayer, Ph.D. and Jade Logan, Ph.D.
JuliAnna Smith, Aline Sayer and Jade Logan are all researchers and faculty members at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
One of the most fascinating aspects of studying families is attempting to understand the impact of the strong interdependence between family members on well-being, relationship quality and other outcomes of interest. Unfortunately, many commonly used statistical methods such as analysis of variance (ANOVA) and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression assume that the outcomes being examined are statistically independent of each other. As a result, hypothesis tests based on these approaches will be inaccurate when examining outcomes for individuals who are nested within families. This workshop will provide several statistical models useful for the analysis of dyadic data including the longitudinal multivariate outcomes model for distinguishable dyads. The presenters will walk the participants through the steps required to properly structure data and then to fit these models to data using the HLM6 software package.
Presenters: Tom Kaplan, Ph.D., representing the Institute for Poverty Research at University of Wisconsin; Deborah Tootle, Ph.D., representing the Southern Rural Development Center at Mississippi State University; Jocelyn B. Richgels, Ph.D., representing the Rural Policy Research Institute, administered jointly by Iowa State University, University of Missouri and University of Nebraska; Rich Huddleston, Ph.D., Executive Director, ARK Advocates for Children and Families.
The purpose of this session is to further the knowledge of federally supported Poverty Centers and the resources available to scholars through the Centers, by listening to and interacting with a panel of leader-representatives from each of the Centers.
This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite much contrary evidence, the authors propose there is a way of doing public policy in a more reflective manner, and that a hunger for evidence and objectivity does exist.
