EDUCATION, MARITAL STATUS AND FERTILITY: A JOINT MODEL

女性在当代美国社会中的角色是相互依存的 多方面的，同时兼顾几个角色是 司空见惯。事实上，生活决定了女人生活的一个方面(例如： 婚姻、为人母或受教育)影响，并受他人影响 方面。这项研究的目的是为了更好地了解女性的生活 在他们现实生活的复杂性背景下的课程过渡。 在这样做时，我们处理了几个重要的实质性问题和 这项研究的结果将为政策和规划提供参考 干预措施。我们将研究的第一个问题是决定因素和 非婚生育的后果。第二，我们将探索 青春期生育与高中辍学的关系。 第三，我们将更好地了解中国的种族差异 家庭形成模式和教育过程。第四，我们将 探索妇女教育过程的决定因素(例如，如何 婚姻和生育对学校教育的影响)以及 生育的时机(婚前、婚中)会影响 女人离婚的风险。为了做到这一点，我们将社会和经济 在更广泛的生命框架内的理论(宏观和微观)- 从课程的角度来考察学校教育和学校教育之间的相互关系。 生育、结婚(和离婚)。我们的跨学科概念 方法从几个角度来看是创新的，首先，我们允许 生活经历的多样性(例如，许多女性都有孩子 在结婚之前)，我们考虑到一个女人的 社会和经济环境来解释她的行为。第二， 拟议的研究也将提供主要的方法学贡献。 由于我们将对相关过程的结果进行建模(例如生育和 婚姻)使用同时危险(和概率)方程，其中 这些决定的连贯性被考虑在内。近期计量经济学 研究团队的创新使这项以前的任务变得困难 有可能。因此，我们灵活的概念和分析模型为我们提供了 有能力研究女性的真实生活--自从 我们正在研究的过程是与行为相关的(即 学校不太可能有孩子，等等。)只有通过更好的 了解这些行为是如何交织在一起的将是适当的和 制定有效的政策和计划。这项研究的发现 将为社会科学家提供更全面的关于女性 并将为政策制定者提供潜在的 关于为人母的时间的性质的新信息 结婚，完成学业。

Women's roles in contemporary American society are interdependent and multi-faceted and the simultaneous juggling of several roles is commonplace. Indeed, life decisions in one aspect of a woman's life (e.g. marriage, motherhood, or schooling) influence and are influenced by other aspects. The purpose of this research is to better understand women's life course transitions in the context of the complexity of their real lives. In so doing, we address several important substantive issues and the findings from this research will inform policy and programmatic interventions. The first issue we will examine are the determinants and consequences of non-marital childbearing. Second, we will explore the relationship between adolescent childbearing and high school drop out. Third, we will provide a better understanding of the racial differences in family formation patterns and the educational process. Fourth, we will explore the determinants of women's educational process (for example, how marriage and childbearing influences schooling) and the ways in which the timing of childbearing (before marriage, during marriage) influences a woman's risk of divorce. To do this, we incorporate social and economic theories (both macro and micro) within the broader framework of a life- course perspective to examine the interrelationships between schooling, childbearing, and marriage (and divorce). Our interdisciplinary conceptual approach is innovative from several perspectives, first, we allow for a diversity of life course experiences (for example many women have a baby prior to getting married) and we consider the importance of a woman's social and economic environments in explaining her behavior. Second, the proposed study will provide a major methodologic contribution as well since we will model outcomes of related processes (e.g. childbearing and marriage) using simultaneous hazards (and probit) equations in which the jointness of these decisions is taken into account. Recent econometric innovations by the research team make this previously difficult task now possible. Therefore, our flexible conceptual and analytic model afford us with the ability to study women's lives as they are actually lived- Since the processes we are studying are behaviorally related (i.e. women in school are less likely to have children, etc.) only by better understanding how these behaviors are interwoven will appropriate and effective policies and programs be developed. The findings from this study will provide social scientists with a more complete picture of women's life-course experiences and will provide policy-makers with potentially new information regarding the nature of the timing of motherhood' marriage, and school completion.