THE IMPACT OF WORK AND FAMILY ROLES ON LIFE OUTCOMES IN LATE ADULTHOOD

我们建议调查工作和家庭轨迹在多大程度上影响了整个生命历程 身体和精神健康和经济福祉在成年后期直接或通过'他们的影响 这些结果的更接近的预测因素。健康和财务状况在多大程度上 老年人受个人同期工作、家庭和其他环境的影响， 这种结果在多大程度上是由于家庭和劳动力市场中的生活经历模式造成的？ 所有这些过程对妇女和男子有何不同？ 近几十年来，退休年龄的意义和性质发生了根本性的变化。 鉴于成功的老龄化越来越依赖于个人自己的规划和资源， 由于广泛的社会变革重新界定了就业关系， 参与有偿劳动力市场，以及婚姻解体率;考虑到男性的性别差异越来越大， 以及妇女的工作和家庭轨迹;鉴于老年人的福祉日益多样化， 在最近的人群中，我们调查了生活过程中工作和家庭模式的影响， 在成年后期的健康和财务状况是及时和重要的。像其他 我们的工作基本上与理解决定因素有关， 美国老年人在社会、经济和政策环境不断变化的时代的福祉。 工作生活调查数据包括关于家庭情况和整个生命过程中的过渡的详细信息; 整个职业生涯中的劳动力经验;身心健康和财务状况 年龄在54到65岁之间。我们将使用基于组的轨迹建模技术来表征 从出生到65岁的家庭环境和转变轨迹以及劳动力轨迹 从36岁到65岁的经历和暴露。认识到了复杂性和内在性， 在所涉及的因果关系中，我们将估计这些工作和家庭轨迹的影响 （男女分开）在成年后的健康和财务状况之前和之后 控制对这些结果的更直接的影响。 性能

We propose to investigate the extent to which work and family trajectories across the life course affect physical and mental health and financial well-being in later adulthood either directly or through'their effects on more proximate predictors of these outcomes. To what extent are health and financial well-being among older adults affected by individuals' contemporaneous work, family, and other circumstances and to what extent are such outcomes due to life-course patterns of experiences in the family and the labor market? How do all of these processes differ for women and men? The meaning and nature of the retirement years has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. Given that successful aging has increasingly come to depend on individuals' own planning and resources at earlier ages; given broad social changes that have redefined employment relationships, women's rates of participation in the paid labor market, and rates of marital dissolution; given growing heterogeneity in men's and women's work and family trajectories; and given growing heterogeneity in the well-being of older Americans in recent cohorts, our investigation of the impact of life course patterns of work and family circumstances on health and financial well-being in later adulthood is timely and important. Like the other proposals that comprise this P01, our work is fundamentally concerned with understanding the determinants of the well-being of older Americans in an era of changing social, economic, and policy contexts. The WLS data include detailed information about family circumstances and transitions across the life course; labor force experiences across the career; and physical and mental health and financial well-being at two points betweenages 54 and 65. We will use group-based trajectory modeling techniques to characterize the trajectories of family circumstancesand transitions from birth through age 65 and trajectories of labor force experiences and exposures from age 36 through age 65. Cognizant of the complexities and endogeneities in the causal relationships involved, we will then estimate the impact of these work and family trajectories (separately for men and women) on health and financial well-being in later adulthood before and after controlling for more proximate influences on these outcomes. PERFORMANCE