Household Responses to Macroeconomic Change in Poland

这是一个研究个人和家庭如何适应创伤性经济困难和变化的项目。这项研究将主要基于对波兰卢布林城市和农村地区600户家庭的调查。这项调查将收集有关经济困难和正在经历的变化的性质以及影响家庭如何适应经济压力的各种条件和过去经验的系统数据。席卷前苏联集团国家的经济变化正在对这些国家普通公民的生活产生巨大影响。这些社会未来的稳定在很大程度上取决于个人和家庭能否比在旧的社会主义制度下更好地适应这些变化和实现家庭目标。波兰作为后苏联时代实施市场改革的领导者，是我们需要理解的一个特别重要的案例。这个项目通过收集波兰一个地区适应经济变化的系统数据，将增加我们对该社会正在发生的重大变化及其对未来的影响的了解。

This is a project to examine how individuals and households adapt to traumatic economic hardship and change. The research will be based primarily on a survey to be conducted in 600 households in both urban and rural areas of Lublin, Poland. The survey will collect systematic data on the nature of the economic hardships and changes being experienced and a variety of conditions and past experiences that influence how households adapt to economic stress. The economic changes that are sweeping the countries of the former Soviet bloc are having a dramatic impact on the lives of ordinary citizens in those countries. The future stability of these societies depends to a considerable extent on whether individuals and families can adapt to these changes and achieve family goals better than they could under the old socialist system. Poland, as a leader in implementing market reforms in the post-Soviet era, represents a particularly important case we need to understand. This project, by collecting systematic data on adaptation to economic change in one area of Poland, will increase our understanding of the momentous changes underway in that society and their implications for the future.