National Institutes of Health Awards $3.1 Million to CCPR Director Martha Bailey’s LIFE M Project.

CCPR Director, Prof. Martha Bailey, has just been awarded $3.1 million from the National Institutes of Health for her project, “LIFE-M 2.0: Data Infrastructure for Understanding the Longitudinal and Intergenerational Determinants of Health and Aging.”In process since 2014, the Longitudinal Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-dataset (LIFE-M) project aims to create data infrastructure to understand the influence of early-life and intergenerational factors in shaping American health. The project uses cutting-edge techniques in machine learning and deep learning-based neural networks to integrate millions of U.S. birth, marriage, and death records with decennial censuses over four generations and add new information, such as cause of death. The newest part of the project, LIFE-M 2.0 will add six additional states to the database, bringing LIFE-M’s coverage to 26% of the U.S. population in 1940, and expand its records to cover the Social Security Death Index and Numerical Identification Files, the 1930 and 1950 Censuses, and the World War I draft and World War II enlistment records.