Family Structure Dynamics and Child Outcomes

家庭结构动态和儿童结局

• 批准号: 7110958
• 负责人: DAVID M. BLAU
• 金额: $ 17.63万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-26 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7110958
• 关键词: academic achievement; behavioral /social science research tag; case history; child behavior; child psychology; clinical research; cognition; employment /unemployment; family structure /dynamics; human data; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; mathematical model; outcomes research; parent offspring interaction

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study will analyze the effects of family structure dynamics and employment dynamics on child outcomes in the U.S. Given the frequency of divorce, remarriage, cohabitation, and out-of-wedlock childbearing in contemporary societies such as the U.S., understanding the mechanisms through which these events affect children is important for science and policy. The study will (1) Conduct a demographic analysis of transitions of women and children among relationship and fatherhood statuses, integrating mother and child perspectives, using rich longitudinal histories from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort mother-child file. (2) Conduct an "approximate decision rule" analysis of the impact of marital and cohabitation dynamics and employment dynamics on child outcomes. The child outcomes of interest include cognitive, social, and emotional development, educational advancement, health, and early adult outcomes such as childbearing, employment, wages, and marital dynamics. A dynamic production function for child outcomes will be estimated jointly with reduced form functions explaining exposure of a child to different marital arrangements. (3) Specify and estimate a behavioral model of marital and cohabitation dynamics, female labor supply, and their effects on child outcomes, and obtain structural estimates of the parameters of the model. The model will allow direct feedback from child outcomes to the marital and employment decisions via interactions in the utility function, as well as indirectly via forward-looking behavior. The dependence of these decisions and outcomes on female wages and current, previous and potential future partner's incomes is explicitly modeled, as are the role of benefits from public programs that are conditioned on marital status and/or employment, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Estimates of the preference and production function parameters will make it possible to provide a detailed characterization of the mechanisms through which marital and employment dynamics affect children, the mechanisms through which realized child outcomes affect subsequent marital and employment decisions, and the effects of policy on marital and employment dynamics and child outcomes.

描述(申请人提供)：这项研究将分析家庭结构动态和就业动态对美国儿童结果的影响。鉴于美国等当代社会离婚、再婚、同居和未婚生育的频率，了解这些事件影响儿童的机制对于科学和政策非常重要。这项研究将(1)利用1979年全国青年纵向调查母子队列档案中丰富的纵向历史，对妇女和儿童在关系和父亲地位之间的转变进行人口统计学分析，整合母亲和儿童的视角。(2)对婚姻同居动态和就业动态对子女结果的影响进行“近似决策规则”分析。感兴趣的儿童结果包括认知、社交和情感发展、教育进步、健康和早期成人结果，如生育、就业、工资和婚姻动态。对儿童结果的动态生产函数将与解释儿童对不同婚姻安排的暴露程度的简化形式函数一起进行估计。(3)提出并估计了婚姻同居动态、女性劳动力供给及其对子女结局影响的行为模型，得到了模型参数的结构估计。该模型将允许儿童结果通过效用函数中的交互作用直接反馈到婚姻和就业决策，以及通过前瞻性行为间接反馈。这些决定和结果依赖于女性工资以及目前、以前和潜在未来伴侣的收入，这是明确建模的，以及以婚姻状况和/或就业为条件的公共方案的福利的作用，如贫困家庭临时援助。对偏好和生产函数参数的估计将有可能详细描述婚姻和就业动态影响子女的机制，已实现的子女结果影响随后的婚姻和就业决定的机制，以及政策对婚姻和就业动态以及子女结果的影响。