The Past Context: Supplementing Survey Data on Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求支持两年，以使用二手数据增强最近收集的墨西哥老龄化调查数据。这个试点项目的目标是探索补充晚年通过个人访谈收集的家庭数据的想法，与早期背景相对应的辅助数据，捕捉个人在其整个生命周期中做出特定决定时普遍存在的条件的细节。其目的是评估关于早期生活背景的指标可以为晚年健康建模提供更多细节的假设，而不是年龄队列指标所能提供的。长期目标是准备一份研究计划，该计划将更详细地使用构建的数据。该未来项目的目标将是审查早期劳动力和妇女生育决定对晚年福祉的影响，以及对儿童教育的人力资本投资。为了实现这一试点项目的目标，我们使用了墨西哥健康和老龄化研究（MHAS）的家庭数据，并将2001年50岁或以上个人的信息与墨西哥社会经济和人口状况的历史二手数据联系起来。该项目的具体目标是：a)提出和构建指标，捕捉个人在生命早期所面临的环境条件；b)测试这些指标在一个晚年幸福指标（即财富）的初步模型中的实用性。这个试点项目的产品将是：1)两个数据库，其中包含一系列的历史指标，将提供给研究界。一个将链接到MHAS数据的各个记录，另一个将以灵活的格式包含汇总的历史数据。2)一篇描述MHAS队列及其各自历史背景的论文；3)基于初步的、基本的老年财富模型，总结了一系列指标是否能够提供重要信息的结论。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for two years to enhance recently gathered survey data on aging in Mexico using secondary data. The goal of this pilot project is to explore the idea of supplementing household data gathered through personal interviews in late life, with secondary data that corresponds to the earlier context, capturing details of the conditions that prevailed at the time individuals made particular decisions throughout their life cycle. The aim is to evaluate the hypothesis that indicators about the earlier- life context can provide further details for modeling late-life well being, beyond what age cohort indicators can provide. The long-term objective is to prepare a research proposal that will use the constructed data in more detail. The goal of that future project will be to examine the effect on late-life well being of early-life labor force and fertility decisions of women, and human capital investment in children's education. To accomplish the goal of this pilot project, we use household data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and link the information on individuals aged 50 or more in 2001 with historical secondary data on socioeconomic and demographic conditions in Mexico. Specific aims of this project are: a) to propose and construct indicators that capture the conditions of the context faced by individuals earlier in life; and b) to test the usefulness of these indicators in preliminary models of one late-life well being indicator, namely wealth. The products from this pilot project will be: 1) two databases containing the series of historical indicators constructed, which will be made available to the research community. One will be linked to the individual records of the MHAS data, and one will contain the aggregate historical data in a flexible format. 2) A paper describing the MHAS cohorts and their respective historical context; and 3) a paper summarizing our conclusions on whether the series of indicators can contribute significant information based on preliminary, basic models of late-life wealth.