Our team seeks to understand child and family well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The purpose of our project, known as Children, COVID-19, and its Consequences (the “Triple C” Project), is to analyze how COVID-19 is affecting familial economic and child well-being. Triple C is the first study to provide a comprehensive portrait of the well-being of families and children across multiple cities during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Our study assesses multiple dimensions of economic well-being to fully reflect the manifold effects of the current economic crisis. Triple C intends to survey families at three relatively short intervals (baseline, 3-months, and 9 months), to capture the dynamic nature of economic circumstances and the degree of economic uncertainty caused by the epidemic that may be missed by surveys with longer times between data collection. Our study will document how economic uncertainty shapes family processes, parenting, and children’s development with particular attention to how these effects differ across race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic lines.  Because of our rapid approach to the proposed data collection the Triple C will provide timely dissemination of findings immediately accessible by researchers and policymakers.

The four sites are:

• Durham, North Carolina where the research is led by Dr. Christina Gibson-Davis at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University
• New Brunswick & Newark, New Jersey where the research is led by Dr. Lenna Nepomnyaschy at Rutgers University and Dr. Sharon Bzostek, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where the research is led by Dr. Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal and Dr. Portia Miller at the University of Pittsburgh
• Seattle, Washington where the collaborative leadership team includes Dr. Sara Curran, Dr. Christine Leibbrand, Dr. Liliana Lengua, Dr. Soojin Park, and Dr. Holly Schindler at the University of Washington and in collaboration with Dr. Anjum Hajat at the University of Washington