The PRI Library has received announcement of a summer program workshop to be held July 24-25, 2008.

Users of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are invited to submit abstracts for the eighth Add Health Users Conference, to be held July 24-25, 2008, in Bethesda, Maryland.

The PRI Library has received an announcement from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) for the Add Health 2008 Users Conference.

Analyses of Add Health data by Martina Morris and colleagues (published in the June 2006 issue of American Journal of Public Health) show that HIV infection is much more prevalent among blacks aged 19 to 24 than among their peers of other races (Reuters Health, June 8, 2006).

Merely having an older sibling encourages risky behaviors, according to recent studies led by economist Susan Averett (USA Today, April 24, 2006). Averett analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, and the National Educational Longitudinal Survey.

From NBER, a working paper using data from three waves of Add Health, find that being very attractive reduces a young adult’s (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs.

National Institutes of Health News Releases: “Most Behaviors Preceding Major Causes of Preventable Death Have Begun By Young Adulthood.” This news release is based on the Add Health Data.

Seventh Annual Add Health Users Conference to be held in Bethesda, Maryland, July 17-18, 2006. The Call for Papers will be posted on the Add Health web site beginning March 3. Workshop registration will be available on-line June 2.

The Add Health project recently announced the availability of the public use version of the Wave III Add Health Education Data (constructed by the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study (AHAA)) from Sociometrics. Penn State users may download these data (and all three waves of the public use Add Health data) from the Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL). You need to authenticate in to the SSEDL via the University Libraries Electronic Resources A-Z list. All of the Add Health data is located in the Data Archive on Adolescent Pregnancy and Pregnancy Prevention (DAPPP). You will need to agree to adhere to the public use data agreement associated with these files. You will “sign” your agreement by providing your name and contact information.

The PRI Data Archive does have this particular Add Health dataset and other public use Add Health data files on PopNet UNIX. If you would like to use PRI’s holdings (you must already have a PopNet UNIX account) contact the Data Archivist.

The Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA) Study provides an opportunity to examine the effects of education on adolescent behavior, academic achievement, and cognitive and psychosocial development in the 1990s. It expands the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to include detailed measures of academic progress and high school curriculum. While Add Health is a rich source of data on social contexts and adolescent development, Add Health has limited information on the academic trajectories of youth. Thus, the AHAA study contributes to the Add Health by providing the high school transcripts of Add Health Wave III sample members.

For more information, please see the AHAA Website.