NSF Young Investigator

该奖项根据国家科学基金会的青年研究人员奖计划向威廉·艾克辛博士提供支持。该项目的目标是表彰优秀的科学和工程领域的年轻教师，促进新近获得博士学位的学生的学术生涯，并促进学术界和产业界之间的联系和合作。阿克辛博士已经在人口学领域做出了重大的研究贡献，他有潜力成为学术研究和教育领域的领导者。该奖项将允许这位研究人员在美国和尼泊尔的家庭形成过程中追求他的研究兴趣。阿克辛博士计划在美国扩大他对家庭形成的研究。他将研究父母的家庭形成和解体经历，以及他们的教育和经济资源，通过什么机制影响孩子的家庭形成行为。他还计划研究代际对生育决定的影响。阿克辛博士关于尼泊尔生育率的研究将旨在了解该国生育率变化的原因。这项研究将对非工业化环境中导致生育率下降的过程提供重要的见解。

This award provides support to Dr. William Axinn under the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Awards program. The objective of this program is to recognize outstanding young faculty in science and engineering, to enhance the academic career of recent Ph.D. recipients, and to foster contact and cooperation between academia and industry. Dr. Axinn has already made significant research contributions to the field of demography, and he has the potential to become a leader in academic research and education. This award will allow the investigator to pursue his research interests in family formation processes in the United States and in Nepal. Dr. Axinn plans to expand his research on family formation in the United States. He will examine the mechanisms through which children's family formation behavior is influenced by their parents' family formation and dissolution experiences, and their educational and financial resources. He also plans to study intergenerational influences on childbearing decisions. Dr. Axinn's work on fertility in Nepal will be aimed at understanding the causes of fertility change in that country. This research will provide important insights into the processes resulting in fertility decline in non-industrialized settings.