SUPPORT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN SINGLE MOTHER FAMILIES

单亲母亲家庭的支持和儿童发展

• 批准号: 2403604
• 负责人: LINGXIN HAO
• 金额: $ 15.34万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-01 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2403604
• 关键词: age difference; behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); child psychology; choice; coping; employment /unemployment; female; human data; low socioeconomic status; maternal behavior; population survey; public assistance; racial /ethnic difference; single person; social support network; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION: Poverty and single-mother family structure are twin problems that have negative outcomes for today's American children. But exactly how do poverty and family structure interact to affect these outcomes? Can these outcomes be mitigated or exacerbated by the strategies mothers use to cope with constraints that single mother hood imposes? And what determines which coping strategies? To answer these questions the investigators have developed a framework to investigate how single mothers choose coping strategies and how this choice affect children's developmental outcomes. The study assumes that (1) coping strategies are not uni-dimensional; rather they combine maternal employment, public assistance and social support; (2) single mother's choices of coping strategies are affected primarily by the availability of different strategies and the needs of the family which are ultimately determined by conditions of the labor market, provision of welfare and child care policies, characteristics of the family's social networks, the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the family; and (3) children's developmental outcomes vary by the coping strategy chosen. The specific aims are to (1) characterize different coping strategies; (2) examine whether labor market opportunities, public policies and social networks reinforce or substitute for one another in determining mother's choice of coping strategies; (3) examine how mothers' maternal employment, public assistance and social support interact with one another in the production of child development; and (4) estimate the sensitivity of the estimated effects to the endogeneity of coping strategies (by both instrumental variable methods and covariance structure methods), to the individual-specific heterogeneity (by change models and random-effect models based on longitudinal observations of individuals), and to the selectivity of single motherhood (by a switching simultaneous equations system). The study will use the two- round National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), complemented by the 14-round National Longitudinal Survey of youth (NLSY) with the 4-round matched child-mother file. The longitudinal nature of both data sets, the five-year span in the NSFH and four two-year spans in the NLSY, allow us to pool longitudinal observations, which increases sample sizes, and permits the proposed analyses.

描述：贫困和单亲家庭结构是孪生的 这些问题对当今的美国儿童产生了负面影响。但 贫困和家庭结构究竟如何相互作用来影响这些 结果？这些结果是否可以通过以下方式减轻或加剧： 母亲们用来应对单亲母亲的限制的策略 强加？是什么决定了哪些应对策略？来回答这些 调查人员制定了调查框架 单亲母亲如何选择应对策略以及这种选择如何影响 儿童的发展成果。研究假设（1）应对 战略不是单一维度的；相反，他们结合了母性 就业、公共援助和社会支持； (2) 单亲妈妈 应对策略的选择主要受可用性的影响 不同的策略和家庭的需求最终是 由劳动力市场的条件、福利的提供和 儿童保育政策、家庭社交网络的特征、 家庭的社会经济和人口特征；和（3） 儿童的发展结果因所选择的应对策略而异。 具体目标是（1）表征不同的应对策略； (2) 审查劳动力市场机会、公共政策和 社交网络在决定方面相互加强或替代 母亲选择的应对策略； (3)检查母亲的母性 就业、公共援助和社会支持三者相互作用， 另一个是儿童发展的生产； (4) 估计 估计效果对应对的内生性的敏感性 策略（通过工具变量方法和协方差方法 结构方法），到个体特定的异质性（通过改变 基于纵向观察的模型和随机效应模型 个人），以及单身母亲的选择性（由 切换联立方程组）。该研究将使用两个—— 一轮全国家庭和住户调查 (NSFH)，补充 通过 14 轮全国青少年纵向调查 (NLSY) 4轮匹配的子母档案。两个数据的纵向性质 集，NSFH 中的五年跨度和 NLSY，允许我们汇集纵向观察结果，这增加了样本 大小，并允许进行建议的分析。