INTERGENERATIONAL PANEL STUDY OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN

这是一项研究家庭形成的决定因素的建议。我们 制定和评估同居和婚姻模式，包括 既有年轻人的影响，也有父母的影响。我们假设 进入同居和婚姻关系受到许多因素的影响 家庭、社会经济和宗教经历的维度以及 年轻人和他们的父母的态度。 我们研究的一个贡献是考察了许多重要的 工会形成的决定因素以前几乎没有收到过 请注意。第二个贡献是扩大了关于 同居的决定因素，这是婚姻形成的一个方面，只有 最近进行了经验性研究。三是对联合的分析 形成跨越广泛的年龄范围，这允许检查 因果影响与年龄的交互作用。第四个目标是 对影响同居的原因机制和过程的解释 还有婚姻。最终目标是审查非 婚姻生育率。我们将研究复杂的因果关系 父母和孩子对家庭的经历和态度 孩子们的队形。 这项研究的数据来自对父母和孩子的小组研究 这是专门为研究决定因素而设计的 关于家庭的形成。数据集包括八波采访，包括 母亲们从1962年到1993年的31年间。这其中的每一个 母亲们在1961年生下了一个孩子，这些孩子是 在他们18岁、23岁和31岁的时候接受了采访。该数据集包括 来自父母和孩子的预测变量的广泛阵列和 孩子们的完整同居和婚姻史。这个 本课程将考察父母和个人对婚姻形成的决定因素 从生命历程的角度来看，使用危险模型。 这项拟议的研究是加州大学与加州大学的合作项目 密歇根和宾夕法尼亚州立大学。平行提案正在进行中 由这两个机构提交。

This is a proposal to study the determinants of family formation. We formulate and evaluate a model of cohabitation and marriage which includes influences from both young adults and their parents. We posit that entrance into cohabiting and marital unions is influenced by many dimensions of the family, socioeconomic, and religious experiences and attitudes of both young people and their parents. One contribution of our research is the examination of many important determinants of union formation that have received little previous attention. A second contribution is the expansion of knowledge about the determinants of cohabitation, an aspect of union formation that has only recently been studied empirically. A third is the analysis of union formation across a wide age range, which permits examination of the interaction of causal influences with age. A fourth aim is the explication of the causal mechanisms and processes affecting cohabitation and marriage. A final aim is the examination of the determinants of non- marital fertility. We will investigate complex causal pathways linking the experiences and attitudes of parents and children to the family formation of the children. Data for this research come from a panel study of parents and children that was designed explicitly for the purpose of studying the determinants of family formation. The data set includes eight waves of interviews with mothers extending across the 31 years from 1962 to 1993. Each of these mothers had given birth to a child in 1961, and these children were interviewed when they were 18, 23, and 31. The data set includes an extensive array of predictor variables from both parents and children and complete cohabitation and marriage histories from the children. The parental and individual determinants of union formation will be examined from a life course perspective using hazard models. The proposed research is a cooperative project between the University of Michigan and Pennsylvania State University. Parallel proposals are being submitted by the two institutions.