PARENTAL INVESTMENTS AND CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH

这项提案旨在为研究经济学的职业奖， 儿童行为问题和儿童行为领域的培训 心理健康 该研究计划提出了经济解释， 家庭收入、发展水平、 儿童的行为问题和青少年的犯罪行为。 研究和培训活动将使校长 调查员启动一项家庭一级的研究方案 儿童心理健康结果的决定因素。 几位具有互补技能的导师将为 候选人 Margaret Ensminger博士（约翰霍普金斯大学医学院 公共卫生）将是主要的导师，并建议候选人的 儿童发展和青少年成果领域的培训。 博士 大学贫困问题研究所所长 （威斯康星州）将为以下方面的研究发展提供指导： 贫困和适当的计量经济学方法。 她是一个领导者， 研究儿童的成就。 罗伯特·莫菲特博士（ 经济学，约翰·霍普金斯大学）将为候选人提供以下建议 有限依赖结果测量的计量经济学模型。 因为 青少年的犯罪和其他行为问题并没有 以前被分析为经济决策的结果， 该奖项的培训部分将包括最近的教学， 儿童发展和青少年的理论和经验工作 行为。 培训将包括儿童的正式课程 发展和儿童的心理健康，与导师的互动， 是贫困，青少年成果和经济成就方面的专家; 参加研究所的会议 威斯康星州大学和研究学会的贫困问题 关于儿童发展。 儿童心理健康问题领域的培训将有助于 研究人员制定了一项长期研究计划， 预防青少年犯罪行为。 理论和 开发的经验建模策略将适用于一系列 儿童的心理健康预防问题，其中预防 干预措施可产生动态效果。

This proposal seeks a career award for research on the economics of children's behavior problems and for training in the area of children's mental health. The research plan proposes economic explanations for empirical correlations between family income, the development of behavior problems in children, and delinquent behaviors in adolescence. The research and training activities will enable the principal investigator to initiate a program of research on the family level determinants of children's mental health outcomes. Several mentors with complementary skills will advise the candidate. Dr. Margaret Ensminger (Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health) will be the principal mentor and advise the candidate's training in the area of child development and adolescent outcomes. Dr. Barbara Wolfe Director, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin) will provide guidance on developments in research on poverty and on appropriate econometric methods. She is a leader in the study of children's attainments. Dr. Robert Moffitt (Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University) will advise the candidate on econometric modeling of limited dependent outcome measures. Because delinquency and other behavior problems in adolescence have not previously been analyzed as being outcomes of economic decision-making, the training component of the award will involve instruction on recent theoretical and empirical work in child development and adolescent behaviors. The training will consist of formal course work in child development and children's mental health, interaction with mentors who are experts in poverty, adolescent outcomes, and economic attainment; and participation in conferences at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin and at the Society for Research on Child Development. Training in the area of children's mental health issues will facilitate the investigator's development of a long-term program of research on prevention of delinquent behavior in youths. The theoretical and empirical modeling strategies developed will be applicable to a range of children's mental health prevention problems, where preventive interventions may have dynamic effects.