Biography

Dr. Gershoff’s research takes a population-level approach to understanding the impacts of poverty and violence exposure on children and their families as well as to identifying the role large-scale intervention programs can play in mitigating these impacts. Two key topics of her research have been how parental and school discipline affect child and youth development and how parent education and early education programs, such as the federal Head Start program, can improve the lives of at risk children. She is an internationally recognized expert on the effects of physical punishment on children.

1-008 - Using Administrative Data to Examine Development

Session Type: Invited Symposium

Abstract

This international, interdisciplinary symposium features three presentations that employ administrative data to evaluate and inform public policy as well as illuminate health and well-being at different points of the lifespan. The symposium will begin with a presentation by the symposium’s invited speaker, Elizabeth Gershoff, who will discuss and highlight the use of secondary and administrative data to address policy-relevant developmental questions. The symposium will then proceed with two additional presentations that cleverly and aptly utilize administrative data to either evaluate or inform public policy. Specifically, the symposium’s second presentation uses state-wide administrative records from North Carolina to assess the impact of SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) receipt as well as the timing of SNAP receipt on adolescent school test scores. The symposium’s third presentation uses merged Swedish nation-wide population registers to determine the predictors of opioid-prescription receipt among adolescents and young adults. The merits, opportunities, and challenges associated with the use of administrative data will be discussed and highlighted.

Sub Unit

• Invited Program

Chair

• Justin Jager, Arizona State University

Individual Presentations

• Using Secondary and Administrative Data to Answer Developmental and Policy Questions - Presenting Author: Elizabeth Gershoff, University of Texas at Austin

• Using statewide administrative records to examine the timing of SNAP Benefit receipt and children’s academic achievement - Presenting Author: Anna Gassman-Pines, Duke University; Laura Bellows, Duke University

• Psychopathology and Opioid Analgesic Therapy among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Swedish Population Register-Based Study - Presenting Author: Patrick Quinn, Indiana University; Martin Rickert, Indiana University; Johan Franck, Karolinska Institutet; Paul Lichtenstein, Karolinska Institute; Henrik Larsson, Örebro University; Brian D'Onofrio, Indiana University