Educational and Racial Variation in Marriage: Investigating Sources with O*NET

描述（由申请人提供）：各种健康相关结果的教育和种族差异很大，但尚未解释。工作特征，如压力、认可和自主性，作为一种未被探索的机制，可能将教育和种族与健康的广泛方面联系起来，如心理健康、家庭稳定、身体健康和死亡率。新修订的《职业头衔词典》（现称为O*NET）与一个与健康相关结果测量的数据源相关联，为评估职业特征在理解健康差异背后机制方面的效用提供了机会。作为一个测试案例，我们建议通过结合O*NET、2000年人口普查和1997年全国青年纵向调查的数据，调查工作特征在解释婚姻和同居中的教育和种族差异方面的潜力。首先，本项目将使用这些资源创建一个描述工作需求、报酬和人口构成的数据集，该数据集可以使用2002年人口普查码与NLSY相关联。其次，它将把这些数据与NLSY联系起来，以记录成年早期职业特征的种族和教育程度。第三，该项目将调查职业特征与妇女组成工会之间的关系，以及职业特征是否与婚姻和同居中的教育和（或）种族差异有关。最后，在通过具体目标1-3完善我们的数据集之后，我们将通过NLSY公开提供描述职业需求、奖励和人口构成的数据集。这个项目将作为一个更大的研究的基础，探讨男性和女性的工作特征对家庭形成和稳定的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Educational and racial differences in a variety of health related outcomes are large and as yet unexplained. Work characteristics, such as stress, recognition, and autonomy, serve as under-explored mechanisms that may connect education and race to wide-ranging aspects of well being such as mental health, family stability, physical health, and mortality. The newly revamped Dictionary of Occupational Titles (now called O*NET), linked to a data source with measures of health-related outcomes, provides an opportunity to evaluate the utility of occupational characteristics for understanding the mechanisms underlying health disparities. As a test case, we propose to investigate the potential for work characteristics to explain educational and racial disparities in marriage and cohabitation by linking data from the O*NET, 2000 Census, and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. First, this project will use these sources to create a data set describing work demands, rewards, and demographic composition that can be linked to the NLSY using 2002 census codes. Second, it will link these data to the NLSY to document racial and educational in occupational characteristics in early adulthood. Third, the project will investigate the association between occupational characteristics and women's union formation and whether attributes of occupations are linked to educational and/or racial disparities in marriage and cohabitation. Finally, after having refined our data set through the specific aims 1-3, we will make data set describing occupational demands, rewards, and demographic composition publicly available through the NLSY. This project will serve as a foundation for a larger study exploring the influence of men's and women's work characteristics on family formation and stability. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Educational and racial differences in a variety of health-related outcomes are large and, so far, mostly unexplained. Work characteristics serve as one under-explored mechanism that may connect education and race to wide-ranging aspects of well being such as mental health, family stability, physical health, and mortality. As a test case, we propose to investigate the potential for work characteristics to explain educational and racial disparities in marriage and cohabitation by linking data from the O*NET, 2000 Census, and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Marriage and cohabitation are good outcomes to test given that there is a large literature theorizing a strong influence of paid work on marriage and family life and marriage and cohabitation are linked to other health outcomes ranging from birth weight to adolescent depression to mortality.