TESTING THEORIES OF FEMALE HEADSHIP

该提案描述了一个五年期的经济研究计划， 在美国，女性领导地位的决定因素延伸，拓宽， 在同一主题的三个工作领域采取具体的后续行动， 私家侦探在他之前的奖项。 之前的一部分工作集中在 估计美国福利制度对女性领导地位的影响， 并发现现有文献中的结果基本上 当国家固定效应被引入计量经济学时， 领导的模式。本提案描述了一个扩展的 国家固定效果的性质、它们之间的关系 个别固定效应，以及这些效应相互作用的方式 随着个体行为的动态和滞后， 在领导岗位上进进出出 拟议的新分析还将介绍 男性和女性的工资变量纳入模型，并将调查他们的 国家和个人的固定效应。 的第二部分 以前的工作集中在估计运动的动态进出 领导权，以及领导权的生命周期模式如何变化 随着时间的推移，在美国，分析揭示了方法论 左审查的重要性和不同的实质性重要性 在生命周期的不同阶段出现的领导类型。 的 拟议的新分析将把国家和固定效应纳入其中， 动态模型，以及，更一般地调查的影响， 福利，工资和福利。 先前工作的第三部分涉及 AFDC中妇女同居的程度以及AFDC规则的详细程度 关于同居和婚姻影响家庭结构的问题。 进一步 将对这些激励措施进行分析。 电话调查 AFDC福利部门关于同居条例的报告， 第一次获奖，也将在拟议的项目中重复。

This proposal describes a five-year program for research on the economic determinants of female headship in the U.S. which extends, broadens, and follows up in specific ways, three areas of work on the same subject by the P.I. in his prior award. One part of that prior work focused on estimation of the effects of the U.S. welfare system on female headship, and found that the results in the existing literature are substantially overturned when state fixed effects are introduced into an econometric model of headship. The present proposal describes an extended investigation into the nature of state fixed effects, their relationship to individual fixed effects, and the way in which such effects interact with dynamics and lags in the individual behavior surrounding movements into and out of headship. The proposed new analysis will also introduce male and female wage variables into the model and will investigate their relation to state and individual fixed effects. A second part of the prior work focused on estimating the dynamics of movements into and out of headship, and how the life cycle pattern of headship has been changing over time in the U.S. That analysis revealed the methodological importance of left-censoring and the substantive importance of different types of headship that occur at different points in the life cycle. The proposed new analysis will incorporate state and fixed effects into this dynamic model, as well as, more generally investigate influences of welfare benefit,s and wages. A third part of the prior work concerned the extent of cohabitation among women on AFDC and how detailed AFDC rules concerning cohabitation and marriage affect family structure. Further analysis of those incentives will be conducted. A telephone survey of AFDC welfare departments on cohabitation regulations, conducted under the first award, will be repeated in the proposed project as well.