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， 包括来自年轻人和他们父母的影响。我们断定 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各个方面， 年轻人和父母的态度。 我们的研究的一个贡献是对许多重要的 工会形成的决定因素，以前很少受到关注， 关注 第二个贡献是扩大了关于 同居的决定因素，工会形成的一个方面， 最近才被实证研究。第三，分析 在广泛的年龄范围内形成工会，这允许审查 因果影响与年龄的相互作用。第四个目标是 解释因果机制和过程， 同居和结婚。最后一个目标是审查 非婚生育的决定因素。我们将调查复杂的 联系父母的经历和态度的因果途径， 孩子的家庭形成。 这项研究的数据来自一项对父母和孩子的小组研究 这是专门为研究 家庭形成的决定因素。该数据集包括八波 从1962年到2010年， 1993.这些母亲都在1961年生了一个孩子， 这些孩子分别在18岁，23岁和31岁时接受了采访。数据 集合包括一个广泛的预测变量数组， 父母和子女以及完整的同居和婚姻史 从孩子们那里。婚姻的父母和个人决定因素 形成将从生命过程的角度进行审查，使用危害 模型 这项研究是一个合作项目， 密歇根和宾夕法尼亚州立大学。并行的建议是 这是两个机构提出的。

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.