The impact of parental and local socio-economic shocks in childhood on young adults' expectations and perceived social norms

童年时期父母和当地社会经济冲击对年轻人的期望和感知的社会规范的影响

• 批准号: 2770002
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2770002
• 关键词: impact; parental; local; socio; economic

Families' socio-economic status, parental education and local economic conditions play a critical role in child development and are formative factors for their future education and life choices. Several studies have established the impact of families' socio-economic background on children' education and other important life outcomes (Almond et al., 2018). This project aims to offer a broader perspective on the effect of childhood circumstances and focus on their role in the formation of preferences, future beliefs (subjective expectations), personality and prosocial behaviour. All of these have been shown to significantly affect life choices.The first part of the project investigates whether family shocks - i.e. parental unemployment - experienced during childhood unfold long-run impacts on the personality and future beliefs of young adults. The second part explores the influence of changes in local public funding for youth services such as youth clubs and sports facilities - experienced as a result of the UK austerity policy or from the allocation of National lottery profits to local sports clubs, social and cultural venues - on personality, socio-emotional development and future beliefs. These are linked to public policies discussed as components of the UK's `levelling up' strategy and to reduce youth crime but could also have long-run effects.The first and second projects are based on the Millennium Cohort Study, a longitudinal panel of about 19,000 children born in the UK at the turn of the Millennium. These children, and their families, have been surveyed since birth, which offers the opportunity to precisely measure life events, including shocks that might be specific to the family (e.g. parental unemployment) or to the municipality (e.g. local government funding shocks). The focus will be on respondents' subjective expectations about attending higher education, employment and earnings at age 30 which were elicited at age 17, just before the end of compulsory schooling, in a module of MSC developed by - among others - my envisaged supervisors Profs Chevalier and Luhrmann. In addition, the project will exploit measures of personality at age 17, and socio-emotional development which has been elicited throughout childhood.

家庭的社会经济地位、父母的教育和当地的经济条件对儿童的发展起着至关重要的作用，也是他们未来教育和生活选择的形成因素。一些研究已经确定了家庭的社会经济背景对儿童教育和其他重要生活成果的影响（Almond等人，2018年）。该项目旨在提供一个更广泛的视角来看待童年环境的影响，并侧重于它们在形成偏好、未来信念（主观期望）、个性和亲社会行为方面的作用。项目的第一部分调查童年时期经历的家庭冲击-即父母失业-是否对年轻人的个性和未来信念产生长期影响。第二部分探讨了当地公共资金的变化对青年服务，如青年俱乐部和体育设施的影响-经历了英国紧缩政策的结果，或从国家彩票利润分配给当地体育俱乐部，社会和文化场所-对个性，社会情感发展和未来的信念。这些项目与作为联合王国“升级”战略组成部分讨论的公共政策有关，旨在减少青年犯罪，但也可能产生长期影响，第一个和第二个项目是以千年同期研究为基础的，这是一个纵向小组，由千禧年之交在联合王国出生的约19 000名儿童组成。这些儿童及其家庭从出生起就接受了调查，这提供了准确衡量生活事件的机会，包括可能具体针对家庭的冲击（如父母失业）或针对市政当局的冲击（如地方政府供资冲击）。重点将是受访者对30岁时接受高等教育、就业和收入的主观期望，这些期望是在17岁时，即义务教育结束前，在我设想的导师Chevalier教授和Luhrmann教授开发的MSC模块中得出的。此外，该项目还将利用17岁时的人格测量以及整个童年时期的社会情感发展。