Civic Community and Civic Welfare: A Study Based on Economic Census Microdata

公民社区与公民福利：基于经济普查微观数据的研究

• 批准号: 9905094
• 负责人: Charles Tolbert
• 金额: $ 9.26万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2000-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9905094&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Civic; Community; Welfare; Study; Based

The fundamental thesis of this project is that local capitalism and civic engagement are associated with beneficial civic welfare outcomes. Previous research has shown that a civic community perspective has substantial promise as an alternative to neoclassical theories of development and change. Still, much remains to be done to improve measures of the key concepts of local capitalism, civic engagement, and civic welfare. This project will use facilities at the Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Bureau of the Census. It will expand coverage from rural small towns to metropolitan areas, allow measures at multiple points in time, and explore the use of decennial Census household microdata in the construction of measures of civic welfare and civic engagement. We also propose to expand measures of civic welfare to encompass local civic infrastructure, public safety, and public health. This will be done with Economic Census microdata and Center data on local governments, as well as exploratory work with population Census long-form microdata. To test the basic thesis, the investigators will develop a database on more than 6,000 cities and towns in the U.S. Within selected larger metropolitan areas, they will conduct exploratory analyses at the Census tract level, identifying civic spaces within larger urban settings. Net of the effects of standard control variables, changes over time in measures of local capitalism and civic engagement (e.g., small, locally-oriented manufacturing establishments and retail establishments, family farms, civically-engaged religious denominations, and other charitable associations and organizations) are hypothesized to vary positively with changes in measures of civic welfare including lower infant mortality, higher income levels, less out-migration, more per capita expenditures on schools and libraries.

这个项目的基本论点是，地方资本主义和公民参与与有益的公民福利成果相关。以前的研究表明，公民社区视角作为新古典主义发展和变革理论的替代方案，具有很大的前景。尽管如此，在改进地方资本主义、公民参与和公民福利等关键概念的衡量标准方面，仍有许多工作要做。该项目将使用美国人口普查局经济研究中心的设施。它将把覆盖范围从农村小城镇扩大到大都市地区，允许在多个时间点采取措施，并探索使用十年一次的人口普查家庭微观数据来构建公民福利和公民参与的衡量标准。我们还建议扩大公民福利措施，以涵盖当地的公民基础设施、公共安全和公共卫生。这将使用经济普查微观数据和关于地方政府的中心数据，以及使用人口普查长格式微观数据的探索性工作。为了验证这一基本论点，调查人员将开发一个关于美国6000多个城镇的数据库。在选定的较大大都市区内，他们将在人口普查区域层面进行探索性分析，确定较大城市环境中的公民空间。剔除标准控制变量的影响，假设当地资本主义和公民参与的衡量标准(例如，以当地为导向的小型制造企业和零售企业、家庭农场、从事公民活动的宗教教派以及其他慈善协会和组织)随着时间的变化而发生变化，这与公民福利衡量标准的变化呈正相关，这些变化包括降低婴儿死亡率、提高收入水平、减少外移、增加人均学校和图书馆支出。