The Past Context: Supplementing Survey Data on Aging

说明（由申请人提供）：本申请要求两年的支持，以加强最近收集的调查数据，在墨西哥老龄化使用二手数据。这一试点项目的目标是探讨如何用与早期情况相对应的二手数据补充通过晚年个人访谈收集的家庭数据，以掌握个人在其整个生命周期中作出特定决定时的详细情况。其目的是评估的假设，即指标的早期生活的背景下，可以提供更多的细节建模晚年的福祉，超越了年龄组指标可以提供。长期目标是编写一份将更详细地使用构建数据的研究提案。未来项目的目标将是研究早期劳动力和妇女生育决定对晚年福祉的影响，以及儿童教育方面的人力资本投资。为了实现这一试点项目的目标，我们使用了来自墨西哥健康和老龄化研究（MHAS）的家庭数据，并将2001年50岁或50岁以上的个人的信息与墨西哥社会经济和人口状况的历史二级数据联系起来。该项目的具体目标是：（a）提出和构建反映个人早年所面临的环境条件的指标;（B）测试这些指标在一个晚年福祉指标（即财富）的初步模型中的有用性。这一试验项目的成果将是：（1）两个数据库，其中载有所建立的一系列历史指标，将提供给研究界。一个将链接到MHAS数据的各个记录，另一个将包含灵活格式的汇总历史数据。2)一份描述MHAS队列及其各自历史背景的论文;以及3）一份总结我们关于该系列指标是否可以基于晚年财富的初步基本模型提供重要信息的结论的论文。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for two years to enhance recently gathered survey data on aging in Mexico using secondary data. The goal of this pilot project is to explore the idea of supplementing household data gathered through personal interviews in late life, with secondary data that corresponds to the earlier context, capturing details of the conditions that prevailed at the time individuals made particular decisions throughout their life cycle. The aim is to evaluate the hypothesis that indicators about the earlier- life context can provide further details for modeling late-life well being, beyond what age cohort indicators can provide. The long-term objective is to prepare a research proposal that will use the constructed data in more detail. The goal of that future project will be to examine the effect on late-life well being of early-life labor force and fertility decisions of women, and human capital investment in children's education. To accomplish the goal of this pilot project, we use household data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and link the information on individuals aged 50 or more in 2001 with historical secondary data on socioeconomic and demographic conditions in Mexico. Specific aims of this project are: a) to propose and construct indicators that capture the conditions of the context faced by individuals earlier in life; and b) to test the usefulness of these indicators in preliminary models of one late-life well being indicator, namely wealth. The products from this pilot project will be: 1) two databases containing the series of historical indicators constructed, which will be made available to the research community. One will be linked to the individual records of the MHAS data, and one will contain the aggregate historical data in a flexible format. 2) A paper describing the MHAS cohorts and their respective historical context; and 3) a paper summarizing our conclusions on whether the series of indicators can contribute significant information based on preliminary, basic models of late-life wealth.