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Grant Study of Adult Development, 1938-2000
Grant Study of Adult Development, 1938-2000
May 28, 2025 - Original Murray Collection
Vaillant, George E.; McArthur, Charles C.; Bock, Arlie, 2025, "Grant Study of Adult Development, 1938-2000", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/48WRX9, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:6:FfCNPD1m9jk950Aomsriyg== [fileUNF]
The purpose of this study was to examine how a sample of men adapt to life. The original researchers perceived medical research to be too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and designed the study to chart the ways in which a group of promising men coped with their lives over a period of time. As the study progressed, some data were colle...
00290Vaillant-Grant-1Identifying.docx
May 28, 2025 - Grant Study of Adult Development, 1938-2000
MS Word - 13.1 KB - MD5: a9e47f7640a037ae3a2acdae5c9d20c1
Documentation
This document describes variables 1-23, which are IDENTIFYING variables, such as participant #, year of birth, age of death, etc..
00290Vaillant-Grant-MemoOfAgreement.pdf
May 28, 2025 - Grant Study of Adult Development, 1938-2000
Adobe PDF - 1.8 MB - MD5: 88f0f903e725b9637243772f489ef459
Documentation
Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive
Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Jan 10, 2025 - Original Murray Collection
Plomin, Robert; DeFries, John C.; Fulker, David W., 2025, "Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BCDSEU, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:qAMSTgoXlIX2kOD7zwELnA== [fileUNF]
The Colorado Adoption Project (CAP), begun in 1976, is a longitudinal adoption study that examines genetic and environmental influence on behavioral development. Investigators employed a "full" adoption design by collecting data from the adoptive and biological parents, the adoptees and matched control parents and their children. The entire data se...
00913Plomin-CAP-MemoAddendum-2024.pdf
00913Plomin-CAP-MemoAddendum-2024.pdf
Jan 10, 2025 - Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Adobe PDF - 108.8 KB - MD5: d037df1dde940d3e06abd19770477b40
Detailed Usage Terms
2024 - Addendum to the legal agreement between data depositor and the Murray Archive
00913Plomin-CAP-StudyDescription.pdf
Jan 10, 2025 - Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Adobe PDF - 153.6 KB - MD5: 6d37002ef581837aa069225a99c44c69
Documentation
Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.
CAP16_Codebook.pdf
Jan 10, 2025 - Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Adobe PDF - 626.0 KB - MD5: f8b28da848bb7665ba07c3a407964c5b
Data
Codebook for year 16 dataset
CAP16_Variables.tab
Jan 10, 2025 - Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Tabular Data - 148.3 KB - 10 Variables, 1497 Observations - UNF:6:6qT4lV99WVqoAqabbNyJIQ==
Data
Variables in year 16 dataset
CAP21_Codebook.pdf
Jan 10, 2025 - Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Adobe PDF - 342.3 KB - MD5: 6ce29973b2127be461f84423985029d2
Data
Codebook for year 21 dataset
CAP21_Variables.tab
Jan 10, 2025 - Colorado Adoption Project, 1976-2002
Tabular Data - 66.6 KB - 10 Variables, 737 Observations - UNF:6:Cc2u3Ld+JgewXXy3SgaSOw==
Data
Variables in year 21 dataset
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