The Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS) is part of the broader data collection efforts of a project called the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a long-standing and large-scale U.S. social science research project. The Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan collects the data in partnership with hundreds of researchers, resulting in thousands of publications. The TAS followed young people from their childhood years into early adulthood. 

Here is an annotated bibliography that 13 students and I co-authored to summarize all 100 publications that analyze the transition to adulthood data (PSID Bibliography search, selecting TAS). Of these publications, 79 are articles in peer-reviewed journals, 6 are book chapters, and 15 are doctoral student dissertations. 

The Emerging Leaders Study (ELS) aimed to investigate and contribute to the formation of emerging adults as productive, multicultural leaders. The ELS returned to the same sample of respondents studied longitudinally in the NSYR study (see below), and resurveyed former participants to collect updated data after young people had more fully transitioned into adulthood. Data include topics such as: school, work, family, romantic relationships, philanthropy, media, morality, and religion. The study also included a random control experiment on charitable giving.

The struggles that many young people had as they transitioned to adulthood prompted myself and 6 colleagues to write a book about how to navigate college. This book exposes the often-unwritten rules of college in order to foster greater equity in who succeeds, and to help students of a wide variety of backgrounds become leaders.

The National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) was a longitudinal survey that tracked young people from their teenage years through to early emerging adulthood. The nationally representative survey began with 3,290 English and Spanish-speaking teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17, and their parents. The same group of young people were then resurveyed three years later when they were 16 to 21 years old, again when 18 to 24 years old, and again when 23 to 29 years old. The data can be downloaded here from ARDA. The data include giving, volunteering, action, helping.

Among the many publications resulting from this project, here are a few that I authored or co-authored: Souls in Transition book, Lost in Transition book, JSSR article, Journal of Adolescent Research article, and an applied project (pubs 1 and 2).

The Science of Generosity (SciGen) was a global research initiative that included a regranting award process to support 14 projects. In addition to the funding process, the project collected data through a nationally representative survey of about 2,000 adult Americans, ages 23 years and older. A subset of the survey participants were also interviewed in-person, along with household participant observations.

Here is the cumulative book summarizing all the findings resulting from this initiative. Results from all the projects are grouped according to different levels of analyses, starting with individual generosity, up to relationships and social groups, onward to organizations, communities, and nations. With colleagues I focused on the U.S. in this book on American Generosity and NVSQ article on social networks of giving.