Is anyone aware of any data sets other than the NLSY and the Fragile Families Study that includes data on both adolescent and parental self-control?

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Richard Wiebe

There's always the Add Health - the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health - but, like the NLSY, it doesn't have very good measures of self-control. I've found the NLSY parental self-control items used by Nofziger to be somewhat unconvincing, but, given the dataset, she did the best she could.