Dr. Louis Donnelly represented PAA and APC at the 22nd annual Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) Exhibition on Capitol Hill on April 27, 2016. The annual event showcases roughly three dozen different exhibits for the purpose of demonstrating the breadth and depth of NSF-funded research to an audience that includes of Members of Congress, congressional staff, federal agency officials and members of the scientific and university-based research communities.
Dr. Donnelly presented the Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), the groundbreaking longitudinal study of nearly 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in cities across the nation – approximately three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents. It is the largest longitudinal study of nontraditional families in the nation and through 5 waves of data collection has yielded significant findings on an array of topics, from changes in family structure to the children’s cognitive and emotional development. The FFCWS is a joint collaboration between Princeton and Columbia Universities; Dr. Donnelly is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton.
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