Contextual Influences on the Transition to Adulthood

这是一个建议，研究如何特点， 社区影响了几个事件的发生和时间 向成年过渡的各个方面，例如 决定结婚，生第一个孩子。 研究 将特别侧重于与外部 婚姻生育和婚姻的相对可得性 在一个社区的合作伙伴，并在何种程度上，社区 特征可以解释种族和民族差异， 向成年的过渡。 国家青年纵向调查（NLSY） 将与各县和大都市区的数据联系起来， 人口普查和其他来源。 事件历史模型将 估计以确定社区一级的影响 在向成年人过渡的过程中的变化。 这项研究将为一个大的 关于美国社会向成年过渡的文学。 它的独特贡献将是阐明 年轻人生活的社区可能会影响他们的选择， 他们在生命早期做出的决定， 关于生育、婚姻和性行为的决定。

This is a proposal to study how characteristics of communities influence the occurrence and timing of several dimensions of the transition to adulthood, for example the decision to get married, and to have the first child. The study will focus in particular on the relationship between out-of- wedlock childbearing and the relative availability of marriage partners in a community, and on the degree to which community characteristics can account for racial and ethnic differences in the transition to adulthood. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) will be linked with data for counties and metropolitan areas from the Census and other sources. Event history models will be estimated to determine the impact of the community level variables on the transition to adulthood. This study will provide a valuable contribution to a large literature on the transition to adulthood in American society. Its unique contribution will be to shed light on how the communities in which young people live may affect the choices and decisions they make early in life in particular with respect to decisions about childbearing, marriage, and sexual activity.