The PSID: Love it or Leave it

1
The PSID Love it or Leave it!

• Dalton Conley
• NYU NBER

2
Virtues

• Americas Family Tree
• Not just longitudinal
• Wealth data 1984 onward
• Repeated Measures
• Special Features
• 1968 Household measures / Consumption Data
• 1988 Parental Wealth / Income Data
• Quinquellia of Asset Data
• 1995 Education Supplement
• 1992 Health and Disability Section
• CDS
• And many more

3
It chops, it dices, it even peels carrots
And I dont even work for the ISR, the University
of Michigan, or any organization affiliated with
the PSID
4
Race, Assets and Opportunity
5
(No Transcript)
6
(No Transcript)
7
(No Transcript)
8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
Intra-Family Stratification
11
(No Transcript)
12
(No Transcript)
13
Intergenerational Health-SES Dynamics
14
(No Transcript)
15
(No Transcript)
16
(No Transcript)
17
The Impact of Income and Parent Low Birth Weight
on Low Birth Weight
18
(No Transcript)
19
But wait, act now and thats not allPhysical
Appearance and SES
20
(No Transcript)
21
1-800-888-PSID(thats 1-800-888-7743)

• Operators are standing by

22
Disclaimers (a.k.a. Vices)

• Very poor information on the OEO sample
• Relationship file a disaster
• Switch to two year survey period
• Higher attrition
• Poorer income data?