Doctoral Dissertation Research: Assets, Family and Achievement among Blacks and Whites

这是博士学位论文研究计划助学金下的一个奖项。这项研究将通过研究家庭总财富或资产对儿童教育程度的贡献，以及随后儿童财富对形成稳定家庭的可能性的贡献，来考察黑人和白人差异以前未被研究的一个方面。它建立在社会分层理论的基础上，并使用收入动态小组研究的数据来对财富的影响进行统计建模。这项研究将有助于从社会学的角度理解黑人和白人在家庭的形成和稳定以及教育程度方面的差异。它对家庭资产影响的关注也将有助于关注稳定家庭和为儿童提供平等机会的政策制定者。除了这项研究将获得的科学成果外，这一奖项还将对一位非常有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究提供实质性的帮助。从而为国家未来的科学人才和下一代社会科学家的深入培养做出贡献。

This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research Program. This study will look at a previously unstudied aspect of black-white differences by examining the contributions of total family wealth or assets to children's educational attainment and the subsequent contributions of children's wealth on the likelihood of forming stable families. It builds on theories of social stratification and uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to statistically model the effects of wealth. %%% This study will contribute to sociological understanding of differences between blacks and whites in family formation and stability and in educational attainment. Its focus on the effects of family assets will also be of use to policy makers concerned with stabilizing the family and equalizing opportunity for children. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists.