Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Impact of U.S. Family Planning Policy on Women's Economic Advancement and Labor Markets

博士论文研究：美国计划生育政策对妇女经济进步和劳动力市场的影响

• 批准号: 0418540
• 负责人: Robert Margo
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Impact; U.S.

Examining the importance of fertility control is fundamental for understanding the origins of recent social and labor market changes. An analysis the federal government's involvement in local family planning projects places current experience in historical context and, in this manner, informs the present policy debate. Though the federal government has played a pivotal role in subsidizing family planning since the War on Poverty, the impact of these policies on women's participation and economic equality have been under-researched. Instead, research in economics has focused on the effects of abortion, which was legalized at least ten years after the introduction of the first family planning programs. Comparatively little systematic, econometric research seeks to identify the effect of birth control and birth control policy on women's rapid integration into the workforce and, by extension, the impact of this transition on labor markets, household structures and children's outcomes. As a result, the true impact of these programs on the evolution of the economy remains an open question.The project involves collecting all of the variables from existing surveys, matching the surveys by county across years, and creating a computerized database of this information. These data will then be used to estimate the importance of Title X in promoting the economic advancement of women and specifically the convergence in economic outcomes between African American and white women. Future research with this data will address the importance of family planning services in changing child outcomes, family structures, as well as the consequences of women's growing participation for U.S. labor markets.

研究生育能力控制的重要性对于理解最近的社会和劳动力市场变化的起源至关重要。一项分析联邦政府参与当地计划生育项目，将当前的经验置于历史背景下，并以这种方式为当前的政策辩论提供了信息。尽管自从贫困战争以来，联邦政府在补贴计划生育方面发挥了关键作用，但这些政策对妇女参与和经济平等的影响的研究已经得到了研究不足。取而代之的是，经济学的研究集中在堕胎的影响上，堕胎的影响至少在引入首次计划生育计划后十年。相对较少的系统，计量经济学研究试图确定节育和节育政策对妇女快速融入劳动力的影响，并扩展到这种过渡对劳动力市场，家庭结构和儿童成果的影响。结果，这些计划对经济发展的真正影响仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。该项目涉及从现有调查中收集所有变量，匹配多年来县的调查，并创建有关此信息的计算机化数据库。然后，这些数据将用于估计标题X在促进妇女的经济发展方面的重要性，尤其是非裔美国人和白人妇女之间经济成果的融合。这些数据的未来研究将涉及计划生育服务在改变儿童成果，家庭结构以及妇女对美国劳动力市场日益增长的后果的重要性。