Tracing the health consequences of family support during the covid-19 pandemic

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U01AG079065
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Obligated
$4,154,906

Award facts

Assistance listing
93.866 Aging Research
Completion date 88% complete
Place of performance
Syracuse, NY 13209, USA

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Description

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Abstract
The initial health impacts of the covid-19 pandemic have been unequal across social groups, and disparities in the economic impact of covid-19 have amplified existing economic inequalities and health gaps. When faced with health and economic challenges, americans often rely on family members, including those who are not coresident, to provide time help, financial assistance, and shared housing. Yet, for many disadvantaged americans, the increased need for help from family comes at a time when the ability of family to provide help is diminished. Public transfers designed to alleviate economic hardships of the pandemic may interact with family transfers, but the combined effects are unknown. Despite the interdependence of health and economic challenges across generations and the effect of family support on health outcomes in the face of challenges, most research on pandemic effects focuses on individuals and households. This project fills this GAP in the research creating a multidimensional contextual database linked to the health and retirement study (HRS) and the panel study of income dynamics (PSID) to examine the effects of the pandemic across generations of american families. The HRS and PSID have collected data on the health and well-being of individuals and their family members for decades, include supplements on covid-19 health and economic challenges and on public and private transfers to combat these challenges, and will continue indefinitely to support an understanding of the health impacts during and in the years following the pandemic. This project enhances these data by building a contextual database on the pandemic linkable to the generations of families in the HRS and PSID across dimensions of exposure to risk; state, local, and school policies; local economic conditions; health care availability; preexisting health factors; and structural inequalities. The proposed project addresses four aims: (1) build and maintain a multidimensional contextual database linked to generations of HRS and PSID families; (2) describe how pandemic-related health and economic challenges differed across groups and were shared within families; (3) assess how care, financial support, and coresidence from family members responded to pandemic- related health and economic challenges and how each interacted with public transfer programs; and (4) study the physical and mental health effects in the immediate aftermath and the years following the pandemic and whether family support and public transfers mitigated negative health effects. Disparities across race-ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, age and retirement status, and family structure are assessed in each aim. Causal effects of the impact of the pandemic will be estimated using a combination of subjective assessments elicited from respondents and analytic strategies. The results provide a comprehensive understanding of the health and economic challenges the pandemic posed to american families and how IT impacted their physical and mental health. Consortium collaborations will facilitate harmonization of contextual factors and health outcomes and support dissemination of the contextual data resource to the broader research community.

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Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
University Of Missouri System Dr. I-Fen Lin will serve as Principal Investigator of the University of Missouri (MU) Subcontract and Co- Investigator for this study. Lin is Professor of the… $114,999
University Of California, LOS Angeles UCLA Scope of Work Judith A. Seltzer will serve as Principal Investigator of the UCLA Subcontract and Co-Investigator for this study, which is a collaboration… $50,372
University Of Missouri System Provide lead scientific expertise for data file construction and analysis using the Health and Retirement Study. $55,000
Regents Of The University Of California, LOS Angeles Modification only $50,372
University Of Missouri System Lin will provide lead scientific expertise for data file construction and analysis using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), including updating the HRS… $115,000
University Of California, LOS Angeles UCLA Scope of Work Judith A. Seltzer will serve as Principal Investigator of the UCLA Subcontract and Co-Investigator for this study, which is a collaboration… $3,287
University Of California, LOS Angeles Judith A. Seltzer will serve as Principal Investigator of the UCLA Subcontract and Co-Investigator for this study, which is a collaboration lead by economist… $47,085
Bowling Green State University To address the four aims of the project, the research team will assemble and analyze a database that integrates two nationally-representative surveys, the… $78,852
The University Of Chicago in the face of increased need associated with the pandemic, inequalities in the strength of the family safety net may not only amplify existing health… $94,686
Duke University To address the four aims of the project, we will assemble and analyze a database that integrates two nationally-representative surveys, the Health and… -$3,408
Duke University $43,639
University Of California, LOS Angeles Judith A. Seltzer will serve as Principal Investigator of the UCLA Subcontract and Co-Investigator for this study, which is a collaboration lead by economist… $10,047
Bowling Green State University To address the four aims of the project, the research team will assemble and analyze a database that integrates two nationally-representative surveys, the… $68,960
University Of California, LOS Angeles Judith A. Seltzer will serve as Principal Investigator of the UCLA Subcontract and Co-Investigator for this study, which is a collaboration lead by economist… $38,324
Bowling Green State University To address the four aims of the project, the research team will assemble and analyze a database that integrates two nationally-representative surveys, the… $28,388
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Who received award U01AG079065?

U01AG079065 was awarded to Syracuse University by National Institute on Aging (National Institutes of Health) on September 15, 2022.

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$4,154,906 has been obligated on U01AG079065.

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