Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Narayan Sastry is a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. He is also an Adjunct Senior Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Sastry has been at the University of Michigan since 2006.
Sastry was previously a Senior Social Scientist at RAND and Associate Director of RAND’s Labor and Population Program and Population Research Center.
Sastry’s research interests center on studying the social and spatial dimensions of health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents, both in the United States and in less developed countries.
Sastry serves as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and he directs the PSID Child Development Supplement (PSID-CDS) and the PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement (PSID-TAS). He is the Co-Director of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS). Sastry is also the Director of the Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS) that was designed to study the long-term demographic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the pre-storm population of New Orleans.
Sastry received his Ph.D. in Demography and Public Affairs from Princeton University in 1995.
Projects
Children’s Health and Migration
Family Complexity, Resources, and the Transition to Adulthood
Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across GenerationsFunded Research
- A New Public Data Archive for the PSID Child Development Supplement
- Children’s Health and Migration
- Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The PSID 2012 – 2016
- Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The PSID 2017 – 2020
- Family Complexity, Resources, and the Transition to Adulthood
- Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations
- PSID, CDS, and TA: Data Enhancements and User Training, Support, and Outreach
- Transition to Adulthood within its Life Course & Intergenerational Family Context
- Transitions from Preschool through High School: Family, Schools & Neighborhoods
- Understanding the interplay of genes and environments in U.S. families to improve child health: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Publications
- Sastry, Narayan, Fomby, Paula, McGonagle, Katherine A. 2021. Effects on Core Panel Attrition and Fieldwork Outcomes from Selection for a Supplemental Study: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology :74-99.
- Sastry, Narayan, McGonagle, Katherine A, Fomby, Paula. 2020. Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis on Survey Fieldwork: Experience and Lessons From Two Major Supplements to the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Survey Research Methods 14(2):241-245.
- Robert Bozick, Sastry, Narayan, Airan Liu. 2020. Health in Early Adolescence and Paid Employment. Youth & Society
- McGonagle, Katherine A, Sastry, Narayan. 2020. An Experimental Evaluation of an Online Interview Scheduler: Effects on Fieldwork Outcomes. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
- Sastry, Narayan, Gregory, Jesse . 2020. Returning to New Orleans in the Year after Hurricane Katrina: Disparities by Race and the Effects of Flooding. PSC Research Report Series (No. 20-896.)
- Fomby, Paula, Sastry, Narayan. 2019. Data Collection on Sensitive Topics with Adolescents Using Interactive Voice Response Technology. methods, data, analyses 13(1)
- Sastry, Narayan, Schickedanz, Adam B, Escarce, José J, Halfon, Neal , Chung, Paul J. 2019. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Household Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 56(5):698-707.
- Sastry, Narayan, Fomby, Paula, McGonagle, Katherine A. 2018. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to Conduct Life Course Health Development Analysis. Handbook of Life Course Health Development :579-599.
- Sastry, Narayan, Hicks, Andrew L, Handcock, Mark S, Pebley, Anne R. 2018. Sequential Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on Children's Reading and Math Test Scores. Demography 55(1):1-31.
- Sastry, Narayan, Schickedanz, Adam , Halfon, Neal , Chung, Paul J. 2018. Parentsí Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Childrenís Behavioral Health Problems. Pediatrics 142(2):e20180023.
- Johnson, David Scott, McGonagle, Katherine A, Freedman, Vicki A, Sastry, Narayan. 2018. Fifty Years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Past, Present, and Future. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 680(1):9-28.
- Andrew L. Hicks, Mark S. Handcock, Sastry, Narayan, Anne R. Pebley. 2018. Sequential Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on Children’s Reading and Math Test Scores. Demography 55(1):1-31.
- Adam Schickedanz, Neal Halfon, Sastry, Narayan, Paul J. Chung. 2018. Parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Children’s Behavioral Health Problems. Pediatrics 142(2):e20180023.
- Fomby, Paula, Sastry, Narayan, McGonagle, Katherine A. 2017. Effectiveness of a Time-limited Incentive on Participation by Hard-to-reach Respondents in a Panel Study. Field Methods 29(3):238-251.
- McGonagle, Katherine A, Sastry, Narayan. 2015. Cohort Profile: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics’ Child Development Supplement and Transition into Adulthood Study. International journal of epidemiology 44(2):415-422.
- Sastry, Narayan. 2012. Neighborhood Effects on Children’s Achievement: A Review of Recent Research. The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development :423-477.
- Sastry, Narayan, A. R. Pebley. 2010. Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement. Demography 47(3):777-800.
- Anne R. Pebley, Sastry, Narayan. 2008. Neighborhoods, poverty and children’s well-being: A review. Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective :360.
- A. Weathers, S. Novak, Sastry, Narayan, E. Norton. 2008. Parental Nativity Affects Children’s Health and Access to Care. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 10(2):155-165.
- Anne R. Pebley, Sastry, Narayan. 2007. Neighborhoods, poverty, and children’s well-being. The inequality reader: contemporary and foundational readings in race, class, and gender 165-178:165-178.
- Julia C. Prentice, Anne R. Pebley, Sastry, Narayan. 2006. Authors respond to ‘Collection of legal status information: Caution’. American Journal of Public Health 96(3):399-400.
- Anne R. Pebley, Sastry, Narayan. 2004. Neighborhoods, Poverty and Children’s Well-being: A Review. Social Inequality :119.
- Sastry, Narayan. 2002. Urbanization, development and under-five mortality differentials by place of residence in São Brazil, 1970-1991. Demographic Research, Special Collection 2 :355-386.