NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON THE YOUNG ADULT LIFE COURSE

描述：该项目使用的数据来自收入的小组研究 与全国儿童调查相结合 用十年一次的人口普查数据， 青少年和青年完成学业的特点， 活动、婚姻、婚外生育、犯罪和吸毒， 以及婚姻和非婚姻关系的解除。 理论框架是 最主要的依据是威尔逊的论文， 邻里特征对内城社会混乱的影响。 项目 将开发和测试这些关键事件和行为的回归模型， 生命历程，特别注意如何质量的 受访者的人口普查居住区（和其他社区等效物） 影响这些事件的发生， 背景 主要解释变量包括 受访者社区的社会经济和人口状况，例如 贫困率，失业率，种族构成， 适婚男子的可得性。 特别注意的是 邻里社会经济关系的函数形式 这些生命过程事件的状态和时间; 不同社区特征的不同影响 社会经济、年龄和种族群体;父母监督等因素， 教育的愿望，和同龄人群体的规范，这可能会调解 邻里条件对青少年结果的影响;以及 社会经济和人口构成的差异 黑人和白人居住的社区可以解释经常 在受教育程度、婚前性行为、 活动、结婚、非婚生育、犯罪和离婚。 的 对这一独特的多层次数据集的分析， 邻里如何影响生活事件和生活机会的理论模型， 为了测试最近关于日益集中的 社会底层地区的弱势群体，并为公共政策提供信息 来解决这些问题。

DESCRIPTION: This project uses data from both the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Survey of Children (NSC), in conjunction with decennial census data, to examine the effects of neighborhood characteristics on adolescents' and young adults' school completion, sexual activity, marriage, out-of-wedlock childbearing, delinquency and drug use, and marital and nonmarital union dissolution. The theoretical framework is grounded most heavily in Wilson's treatise dealing with the impact of neighborhood characteristics on inner-city social dislocations. The project will develop and test regression models of these key events and behaviors in the life course, with particular attention given to how qualities of the respondents' census tract of residence (and other neighborhood equivalents) influence the occurrence of these events net of the effects of family background. The primary explanatory variables include indicators of the socioeconomic and demographic status of the respondents' neighborhoods, such as the poverty rate, the unemployment rate, racial composition, and the availability of marriageable men. Special attention is given to the functional form of the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and the timing of these life-course events; the potentially differential impact of neighborhood characteristics across different socioeconomic, age, and racial groups; factors such as parental supervision, educational aspirations, and peer group norms, that might mediate the effects of neighborhood conditions on adolescent outcomes; and the degree to which differences in the socioeconomic and demographic composition of the neighborhoods inhabited by blacks and whites can explain the often pronounced racial differences in educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, marriage, nonmarital childbearing, delinquency, and divorce. The analysis of this unique, multi-level data set holds promise for refining theoretical models of how neighborhoods affect life events and life chances, for testing recent claims regarding the increasing concentration of disadvantaged groups in underclass areas, and for informing public policies that address these issues.