TESTING THEORIES OF FEMALE HEADSHIP

这项提案描述了一项为期五年的经济研究计划 美国女性领导地位的决定因素：延伸、扩大和 以具体方式采取后续行动，就同一主题开展三个领域的工作 上一次获奖的私家侦探。先前工作的一部分集中在 对美国福利制度对女性掌门人影响的估计， 并发现现有文献中的结果实质上是 当国家固定效应被引入计量经济学时被推翻 头衔的典范。本提案描述了一种扩展的 关于国家固定效果的性质及其关系的探讨 到单个固定效果，以及这些效果相互作用的方式 以及围绕运动的个体行为的动态和滞后 上任和下台。拟议的新分析还将引入 将男性和女性的工资变量引入模型，并将调查他们的 与国家和个人固定效果的关系。的第二部分。 以前的工作集中在估计进出运动的动力学 头衔，以及头衔的生命周期模式是如何变化的 随着时间的推移，在美国，这一分析揭示了 左翼审查的重要性和不同的 在生命周期的不同阶段出现的头衔类型。这个 拟议的新分析将把状态和固定效应纳入其中 动态模型，以及更广泛地研究 福利、S和工资。先前工作的第三部分涉及 妇女在AFDC上的同居程度以及AFDC的详细规则 关于同居和婚姻影响家庭结构。进一步 将对这些激励措施进行分析。对……的电话调查 渔农处福利部门就同居条例，在 第一个奖项，也将在拟议的项目中重复。

This proposal describes a five-year program for research on the economic determinants of female headship in the U.S. which extends, broadens, and follows up in specific ways, three areas of work on the same subject by the P.I. in his prior award. One part of that prior work focused on estimation of the effects of the U.S. welfare system on female headship, and found that the results in the existing literature are substantially overturned when state fixed effects are introduced into an econometric model of headship. The present proposal describes an extended investigation into the nature of state fixed effects, their relationship to individual fixed effects, and the way in which such effects interact with dynamics and lags in the individual behavior surrounding movements into and out of headship. The proposed new analysis will also introduce male and female wage variables into the model and will investigate their relation to state and individual fixed effects. A second part of the prior work focused on estimating the dynamics of movements into and out of headship, and how the life cycle pattern of headship has been changing over time in the U.S. That analysis revealed the methodological importance of left-censoring and the substantive importance of different types of headship that occur at different points in the life cycle. The proposed new analysis will incorporate state and fixed effects into this dynamic model, as well as, more generally investigate influences of welfare benefit,s and wages. A third part of the prior work concerned the extent of cohabitation among women on AFDC and how detailed AFDC rules concerning cohabitation and marriage affect family structure. Further analysis of those incentives will be conducted. A telephone survey of AFDC welfare departments on cohabitation regulations, conducted under the first award, will be repeated in the proposed project as well.