Does Marriage in Sweden Affect Child and Adult Outcomes?

瑞典的婚姻会影响儿童和成人的结局吗？

• 批准号: 7096718
• 负责人: Donna K. Ginther
• 金额: $ 7.08万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7096718
• 关键词: Scandinavian country; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); adult human (21+); behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); education; family structure /dynamics; health; human data; human subject; income; income maintenance; marriage /marital status; outcomes research; public health; quality of life; retirement; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The association between marriage and positive outcomes for children and adults has been documented in numerous studies. Children of married parents have better educational and health outcomes; married adults have higher earnings and better health. Marriage may, in fact, improve public health. However, cohabitation is increasing in the United States and ubiquitous in Sweden. Given the increased prevalence of cohabitation in both countries, understanding its impact on child and adult outcomes is important in terms of theoretical predictions about the benefits of marriage and policies designed to promote marriage. The goal of this research is to compare the effects of cohabitation and legal marriage on child and adult outcomes in Sweden. In particular, we seek to identify the causal effect of marriage on outcomes by using two empirical approaches a) a quasi-natural experiment-changes in the Swedish Widow's Pension-to examine the impact of a policy-induced change in marital status; and b) sibling and individual fixed effects models to estimate the effect of a change in marital status on child and adult outcomes. We seek support to address the following research questions: 1) What is the correlation of cohabitating family structures compared with married family structures on child educational and health outcomes 2) Is cohabitation correlated with improved adult earnings and health outcomes when compared to marriage? 3) What is the causal effect of marriage on child and adult outcomes? 4) Does marriage have a positive impact on child and adult outcomes when it results from a change in policy? 5) Does the type of selection into marriage (self-selection compared with response to policy change) matter for outcomes? 6) Does the duration of marriage affect child and adult outcomes?

描述（由申请人提供）：大量研究记录了婚姻与儿童和成人积极结果之间的关联。已婚父母的孩子有更好的教育和健康成果；已婚成年人的收入更高，健康状况也更好。事实上，婚姻可以改善公共健康。然而，同居现象在美国日益增多，在瑞典也普遍存在。鉴于两国同居现象日益普遍，了解其对儿童和成人结局的影响对于婚姻益处的理论预测和旨在促进婚姻的政策非常重要。这项研究的目的是比较瑞典同居和合法婚姻对儿童和成人结局的影响。特别是，我们试图通过使用两种实证方法来确定婚姻对结果的因果影响：a）准自然实验——瑞典寡妇养老金的变化——以检验政策引起的婚姻状况变化的影响； b) 兄弟姐妹和个人固定效应模型，用于估计婚姻状况变化对儿童和成人结局的影响。我们寻求支持来解决以下研究问题：1）与已婚家庭结构相比，同居家庭结构对儿童教育和健康结果的相关性如何？2）与婚姻相比，同居与成人收入和健康结果的改善是否相关？ 3）婚姻对儿童和成人的结果有何因果影响？ 4) 当政策变化导致婚姻时，它会对儿童和成人的结局产生积极影响吗？ 5）选择婚姻的类型（自我选择与对政策变化的反应相比）对结果重要吗？ 6) 婚姻的持续时间会影响孩子和成人的结局吗？