The NCFMR is pleased to announce the awardees of the Pilot Data Collection, 2009 grant. The following proposals were chosen based upon the investigators' innovative measures that will help answer new research questions concerning family responses to financial strain.

2009 Awardees

The Financial Management Behaviors Scale

• PI: Jeffrey Dew, PhD - University of Virginia, Department of Sociology
• Co-I: Jing Jian Xiao, PhD - The University of Rhode Island, Department of Human Development and Family Studies

How the Family Responds to Economic Pressure: A Comparative Study

• PI: Frank Furstenberg, PhD - University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology
• Co-I: Anne Gauthier, PhD - University of Calgary, Department of Sociology
• Co-I: Shelley Pacholok, PhD - University of British Columbia, Unit 6/Sociology

"It's All Your Fault": Predictors and Implications of Blame in Couples Under Economic Strain

• PI: Lisa Diamond, PhD - University of Utah, Department of Psychology
• Co-I: Angela Hicks, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychology, Westminster College

Doubling Up When Times Are Tough: Obligations to Share a Home in Response to Economic Hardship

• PI: Judith Seltzer, PhD - University of California-Los Angeles, Department of Sociology
• Co-I: Suzanne Bianchi, PhD - University of Maryland, Department of Sociology

Investigators will work with Knowledge Networks, an established vendor of a nationally representative panel of U.S. households. Data will be collected during the summer of 2009 and used exclusively by investigators and NCFMR staff for a six-month period. Afterward, the data will be released publicly for use by the broader research community.

In November 2009, investigators will present their findings at an NCFMR awardees conference. Each will then submit a paper for the Working Paper Series by January 2010.