Educational and Racial Variation in Marriage: Investigating Sources with O*NET

描述（由申请人提供）：各种健康相关结果的教育和种族差异很大，但尚未解释。工作特征，如压力，认可和自主权，作为未被探索的机制，可能会将教育和种族与心理健康，家庭稳定，身体健康和死亡率等广泛的福祉方面联系起来。新修订的《职业名称词典》（现称为O*NET）与一个数据源相联系，其中载有与健康有关的结果的计量，这为评价职业特征对了解健康差距的机制的效用提供了机会。作为一个测试案例，我们建议调查潜在的工作特点来解释婚姻和同居中的教育和种族差异，通过连接数据从O*NET，2000年人口普查，和1997年全国青年纵向调查。首先，该项目将使用这些来源创建一个数据集，描述工作需求，奖励和人口构成，可以使用2002年人口普查代码与NLSY联系起来。其次，它将把这些数据与NLSY联系起来，以记录成年早期的种族和教育职业特征。第三，该项目将调查职业特征与妇女组成工会之间的关系，以及职业属性是否与婚姻和同居中的教育和/或种族差异有关。最后，在通过具体目标1-3完善了我们的数据集之后，我们将通过NLSY公开描述职业需求，奖励和人口构成的数据集。该项目将为一项更大规模的研究奠定基础，该研究将探讨男子和妇女的工作特点对家庭形成和稳定的影响。 公共卫生相关性：在各种健康相关结果中，教育和种族差异很大，到目前为止，大多无法解释。工作特征是一种未被探索的机制，它可能将教育和种族与心理健康、家庭稳定、身体健康和死亡率等广泛的福祉方面联系起来。作为一个测试案例，我们建议调查潜在的工作特点来解释婚姻和同居中的教育和种族差异，通过连接数据从O*NET，2000年人口普查，和1997年全国青年纵向调查。婚姻和同居是一个很好的测试结果，因为有大量的文献从理论上证明了有偿工作对婚姻和家庭生活的强烈影响，婚姻和同居与其他健康结果有关，从出生体重到青少年抑郁症到死亡率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Educational and racial differences in a variety of health related outcomes are large and as yet unexplained. Work characteristics, such as stress, recognition, and autonomy, serve as under-explored mechanisms that may connect education and race to wide-ranging aspects of well being such as mental health, family stability, physical health, and mortality. The newly revamped Dictionary of Occupational Titles (now called O*NET), linked to a data source with measures of health-related outcomes, provides an opportunity to evaluate the utility of occupational characteristics for understanding the mechanisms underlying health disparities. As a test case, we propose to investigate the potential for work characteristics to explain educational and racial disparities in marriage and cohabitation by linking data from the O*NET, 2000 Census, and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. First, this project will use these sources to create a data set describing work demands, rewards, and demographic composition that can be linked to the NLSY using 2002 census codes. Second, it will link these data to the NLSY to document racial and educational in occupational characteristics in early adulthood. Third, the project will investigate the association between occupational characteristics and women's union formation and whether attributes of occupations are linked to educational and/or racial disparities in marriage and cohabitation. Finally, after having refined our data set through the specific aims 1-3, we will make data set describing occupational demands, rewards, and demographic composition publicly available through the NLSY. This project will serve as a foundation for a larger study exploring the influence of men's and women's work characteristics on family formation and stability. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Educational and racial differences in a variety of health-related outcomes are large and, so far, mostly unexplained. Work characteristics serve as one under-explored mechanism that may connect education and race to wide-ranging aspects of well being such as mental health, family stability, physical health, and mortality. As a test case, we propose to investigate the potential for work characteristics to explain educational and racial disparities in marriage and cohabitation by linking data from the O*NET, 2000 Census, and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Marriage and cohabitation are good outcomes to test given that there is a large literature theorizing a strong influence of paid work on marriage and family life and marriage and cohabitation are linked to other health outcomes ranging from birth weight to adolescent depression to mortality.