Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages Across the Life Course
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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18. Over the years, Add Health has collected rich demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data from participants and their parents; a vast array of contextual data from participants’ schools, neighborhoods, and geographies of residence; and in-home physical and biological data from participants, including genetic markers, blood-based assays, anthropometric measures, and medications. Ancillary studies have added even more data over the years. Data from the project are available in various forms and have been analyzed in thousands of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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July 15, 2015
Add Health featured in Social Forces
Genetics of Educational Attainment and the Persistence of Privilege at the Turn of the 21st Century
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June 8, 2015
The Reliability of In-Home Measures of Height and Weight in Large Cohort Studies: Evidence from Add Health
Add Health research featured in Demographic Research
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May 27, 2015
Health Psychology features research from Add Health
Early Socioeconomic Adversity, Youth Positive Development, and Young Adults’ Cardio-Metabolic Disease Risk
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