Intergenerational Family Transfers of Time and Money in the PSID

描述（由申请人提供）：收入动态小组研究是美国研究代际过程如何促进个人福祉的首要数据集，因为它具有前瞻性，重复测量个人的经济特征，健康和生活安排，其家谱设计和较长的小组长度。本项目设计并收集了2013年PSID面试中添加的12分钟家庭花名册和家庭转移模块。这个创新的模块提供了新的、公共使用的数据来理解经济优势跨代传递的机制，并使PSID成为唯一一个代表全美国人口的长期小组，为研究生命历程和多代人的时间、金钱和共同居住交换提供了条件。该项目有五个目标：首先，我们设计了一个数据收集系统，列出了PSID家庭户主和配偶的所有在世子女和父母，获得每个此类亲属的基本社会人口信息，并收集了两种类型的转移：a)最近在PSID负责人和妻子、他们的年长父母和他们的成年子女之间进行的时间和金钱转移；b)过去任何时候进行的较大转移，包括帮助支付大学费用、首次购房和其他财富转移。其次，我们使用这些数据来分析家庭如何共享资源，重点关注财富和失业冲击对家庭成员之间转移的影响。第三，我们将PSID儿童和父母的子样本与1988年和2013年新模块收集的转移信息联系起来，以：a)检查家庭在两个时间点上给予/接受的变化；b)评估在生命早期从父母那里获得时间或金钱援助的儿童是否更有可能在以后的生活中向父母提供帮助。第四，我们探讨了父母对其成年子女进行的两种形式的转移的相对重要性——投资于子女的高等教育和提供内部财富转移——在经济成就方面产生了充分记录的代际相关性。最后，我们利用在父母、公公婆婆和子女的问卷调查中收集到的信息来探讨磨耗对PSID样本的总体特征、成就的代际相关性以及对时间和金钱代际转移的估计的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Panel Study of Income Dynamics is the premier dataset in the U.S. for studying how intergenerational processes contribute to individual well-being because of its prospective, repeated measures of individuals' economic characteristics, health, and living arrangements, its genealogical design, and its long panel length. This project designs and collects a 12 minute Family Roster and Family Transfer Module added to the 2013 PSID interview. This innovative module provides new, public-use data to understand the mechanisms by which economic advantage is transmitted across generations and makes the PSID the only long-term panel representative of the full U.S. population equipped for the study of life course and multigenerational exchanges of time, money and co-residence. The project has five objectives: First, we design a data collection that rosters all living children and parents of the heads and spouses of PSID households, obtains basic socio-demographic information on each such relative and collects two types of transfers: a) recent time and money transfers between PSID Heads and Wives, their older parents, and their adult children and b) larger transfers made at any time in the past, including help with college expenses, first home purchase, and other transfers of wealth. Second, we use these data to analyze how families share resources, with a focus on the effects of wealth and unemployment shocks on transfers between family members. Third, we link a subsample of PSID children and parents with information on transfers collected in 1988 and in the new module in 2013 to: a) examine variation in giving/receiving across families at two points in time and b) assess whether children who received time or money assistance from parents earlier in life are more likely to give help to parents later in life. Fourth, we explore the relative importance of two forms of transfers that parents make to their adult children - investing in children's higher education and providing inter vivos wealth transfers - in generating well-documented intergenerational correlations in economic attainment. Finally, we use the information collected in the roistering of parents, parents-in-law, and children to explore the impact of attrition on the overall characteristics of the PSID sample, on the intergenerational correlations in attainment, and on estimates of intergenerational transfers of time and money. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The PSID is the only long-term national panel equipped to study life course and multigenerational aspects of health and well-being. The proposed project will expand the scientific value of the PSID for the study of intergenerational family dynamics, including the investments parents make in their adult children's education and later life economic well-being and the care children give to older parents. These data will enhance researchers' ability to understand transfers of time and money across generations and over the life course, as well as provide data to help assess mechanisms for the transmission of economic advantage across generations.