1. The Longitudinal Revolution: Sociological research at the 50-year milestone of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
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Noura Insolera, Fabian T. Pfeffer, and Paula Fomby
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bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Work, Economy and Organizations ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Science, Knowledge, and Technology ,Economic growth ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Race, Gender, and Class ,050402 sociology ,Sociology and Political Science ,Longitudinal data ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Methodology ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Organizations, Occupations, and Work ,Article ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology ,0504 sociology ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Family, Life Course, and Society ,050602 political science & public administration ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Racial and Ethnic Minorities ,Sociology ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Family ,Poverty ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Race and Ethnicity ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Theory, Knowledge and Science ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility ,05 social sciences ,Sociological research ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Children and Youth ,0506 political science ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Aging and the Life Course ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology ,Scholarship ,Panel Study of Income Dynamics ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences ,SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences ,bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Sociology|Inequality and Stratification - Abstract
The US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. Initially designed to assess the nation's progress in combatting poverty, PSID's scope broadened quickly to a variety of topics and fields of inquiry. To date, sociologists are the second-most frequent users of PSID data after economists. Here, we describe the ways in which PSID's history reflects shifts in social science scholarship and funding priorities over half a century; take stock of the most important sociological breakthroughs it facilitated, in particular those relying on the longitudinal structure of the data; and critically assess the unique advantages and limitations of PSID and surveys like it for today's sociological scholarship.
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- 2020