Early Work Experiences and the transition to Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是对关于NICHD人口研究指导研究科学家发展奖（K 01）的通知HD-01-004的回应。尽管绝大多数青少年从事有偿工作，但过去的研究提供了相反的证据，证明青春期的有偿工作是否是向成年过渡期间健康和福祉，风险行为和成就变化的原因，后果或虚假相关性。我的目标是更好地解决围绕青少年就业的争议。为了实现这一目标，我的第一个目标是追求人口学课程和严格的指导与人口学，社会学，犯罪学和发展心理学的主要学者。这个职业发展计划将包括：与我的导师和咨询委员会合作，制定一个跨学科的方法来研究有偿工作，因为它与青少年和成年早期的健康、成就和风险行为有关;通过宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所开设八门人口学课程;在会议上发表论文，并向学术期刊提交手稿;以及准备和提交R 01赠款提案。我的第二个目标，使用来自监测未来研究的纵向数据，是针对这一争议的四个研究目标：研究早期工作经验在社会经济成就过程中的作用;研究早期工作经验对青少年和成年早期社会，心理和行为发展的影响;记录早期工作经历的性别、种族和民族以及社会经济背景的差异;记录早期工作经历的群体差异。拟议的研究计划将以正在进行的监测未来研究的两个主要数据来源为基础。根据队列顺序设计，这个正在进行的项目继续收集数据的大（每年级约17 000名学生），全国代表性样本的8日，10日，和12年级学生每年，每两年一次的后续调查的子样本从每个12年级队列和数量有限的8年级队列。自1976年以来，12年级的队列一直被跟踪到成年; 1991年至1993年的三个8年级队列也每两年跟踪一次，直到成年初期（26-28岁）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is in response to notice HD-01-004 regarding the NICHD Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) in Population Research. Although the vast majority of teenagers work in paid jobs, past research offers contrary evidence as to whether paid work during adolescence is a cause, consequence, or spurious correlate of changes in health and well-being, risk behavior, and achievement during the transition to adulthood. My goal is to better address the controversy surrounding teenage employment. To accomplish this goal my first objective is to pursue coursework in demography and rigorous mentorship with key scholars in demography, sociology, criminology, and developmental psychology. This career development plan will involve: working with my mentors and advisory committee toward developing an interdisciplinary approach to paid work as it relates to health, achievement, and risk behavior during adolescence and early adulthood; eight courses in demography through the Population Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University; paper presentations at conference meetings and the submission of manuscripts to academic journals; and the preparation and submission of a R01 grant proposal. My second objective, using longitudinal data from the Monitoring the Future study, is to address four research aims regarding this controversy: to study the role of early work experiences in the process of socioeconomic attainment; to study the effects of early work experiences on social, psychological, and behavioral development during adolescence and early adulthood; to document variation in early work experiences by gender, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic background; and to document cohort variation in early work experiences. The proposed research plan will be based on two major sources of data collection from the ongoing Monitoring the Future (MTF) study. Based on a cohort-sequential design, this ongoing project continues to collect data on large (approximately 17,000 students per grade), nationally representative samples of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders each year, with biennial follow-up surveys of sub-samples from each 12th grade cohort and a limited number of 8th grade cohorts. The 12th grade cohorts have been followed into adulthood since 1976; three 8th grade cohorts - 1991-93 are also followed biennially into young adulthood (ages 26-28).