Stability of Mexican-Origin Extended Family Households

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议研究的首要目标是检查墨西哥移民和墨西哥原住民中大家庭的形成和时间稳定性。移民中与大家庭同居的比例很高，这使得研究人员和政策制定者将大家庭的支持视为移民的宝贵资源。但大家庭居住安排的社会和经济价值可能在一定程度上取决于它们的稳定性。社会科学家目前对大家庭的稳定性知之甚少，更不了解导致大家庭形成和稳定的社会和经济因素，因为大多数关于延长居住安排的工作，以及所有先前关于移民生活安排的工作，都依赖于横断面数据。拟议研究的贡献是利用1992年、1993年和1996年收入和方案参与调查(SIPP)小组提供的纵向数据来检查墨西哥移民和原住民进入和留在大家庭的程度，并检查进入这种生活安排的社会和经济决定因素和持续时间。 这项研究的结果将为深入了解墨西哥移民和当地人的大家庭生活安排的社会和经济价值提供依据。因此，这项研究对制定和评估基于对新移民的现有稳定家庭支助的移民和福利政策具有重要意义。这项研究还具有社会科学意义，因为它将比以前提供的横断面数据更清楚地描述导致大家庭家庭形成和解散的因素。拟议的项目侧重于一个庞大的族裔群体--墨西哥人，以便在分析上对同居偏好以及移民和定居经历的群体一级差异加以限制。这项研究将成为一个更大的项目的跳板，该项目将研究多个种族之间的经济福祉和生活安排之间的联系，以及同居带来的好处因性别而异的可能性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the proposed research is to examine the formation and temporal stability of extended family households among Mexican immigrants and Mexican-origin natives. The high levels of co-residence with extended kin among immigrants have led researchers and policy makers to view extended family support as a valuable resource for immigrants. But the social and economic value of extended family living arrangements is likely to depend in part on their stability. Social scientists currently know very little about the stability of extended family households and even less about the social and economic factors leading to their formation and stability because most work on extended living arrangements, and all prior work on the living arrangements of immigrants, has relied on cross-sectional data. The contribution of the proposed research is to use longitudinal data available from 1992, 1993, and 1996 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine the extent to which Mexican immigrants and natives enter into and remain in extended family households, and to examine the social and economic determinants of entry into and duration of such living arrangements. The results of the research will provide insight into the social and economic value of extended family living arrangements among Mexican immigrants and natives. The research thus has important implications for the development and evaluation of those immigration and welfare policies that are based on the presumption of existing stable family support for new arrivals. The research is also of social scientific significance because it will provide a much clearer picture of the factors leading to the formation and dissolution of extended family households than has previously been provided with cross-sectional data. The proposed project focuses on a single large ethnic group, Mexicans, in order to place analytically helpful limits on group-level variation in preferences for co-residence and migration and settlement experiences. The research will serve as a springboard for a larger project examining the connection between economic well-being and living arrangements across multiple ethnic groups and the possibility that the benefits derived from co-residence differ by gender.