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: 7225472
• 负责人: Donna K. Ginther
• 金额: $ 6.87万
• 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 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7225472
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Adverse effects; Affect; Age; Biological; Birth; Child; Country; Data; Disease regression; Economics; Educational Status; Fathers; Fertility; Goals; Happiness; Health; Household; Income; Individual; Institution; Legal; Life; Literature; Marital Status; Marriage; Marriage Duration; Modeling; Natural experiment; Outcome; Parents; Pensions; Phase; Pilot Projects; Policies; Population; Prevalence; Public Health; Relative (related person); Research; Rights; Sampling; Security; Selection Bias; Siblings; Single-Parent Family; Stepfamilies; Sweden; Testing; United States; Widow; Woman; design; family structure; improved; insight; response

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)：许多研究都证明了婚姻与儿童和成人的积极结果之间的联系。已婚父母的孩子有更好的教育和健康结果；已婚成年人有更高的收入和更好的健康。事实上，婚姻可能会改善公众健康。然而，同居在美国越来越多，在瑞典也随处可见。鉴于两国同居现象日益普遍，了解同居对儿童和成人结果的影响，对于从理论上预测婚姻的好处以及旨在促进婚姻的政策而言，具有重要意义。这项研究的目的是比较同居和合法婚姻对瑞典儿童和成人结果的影响。特别是，我们试图通过两种经验方法来确定婚姻对结果的因果影响：a)半自然实验--瑞典寡妇养老金的变化--以考察政策导致的婚姻状况变化的影响；以及b)兄弟姐妹和个人固定效应模型，以估计婚姻状况变化对儿童和成人结果的影响。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，同居家庭结构与儿童教育和健康结果的相关性是什么？2)与婚姻相比，同居与成人收入和健康结果的改善相关吗？3)婚姻对儿童和成人结果的因果关系是什么？4)当政策改变时，婚姻对儿童和成人结果有积极影响吗？5)婚姻的选择类型(自我选择与对政策变化的反应)对结果有影响吗？6)婚姻的持续时间影响儿童和成人结果吗？