FAMILY STRENGTHENING: A DEEPER LOOK AT DRIVERS OF PROGRAM SUCCESS

许多研究记录了种族和年龄对婚姻成功的巨大差异，但因果预测因素，即可靠地确定结果并指出导致婚姻成功的因素的因素，尚未被清楚地阐明或存在争议。在这个项目中，霍华德大学的研究人员将利用三个丰富的纵向数据集来研究三个研究问题，这些数据集是通过儿童和家庭支持的卫生与人类服务/行政管理计划产生的。对这些数据库的二次分析将提供关于种族、民族、地点、社会经济条件和年龄对了解三个项目成功率的影响的额外分析和报告。预期成果将帮助各机构制定旨在加强家庭的经改进的、具有文化能力的方案。这项研究将解决的研究问题是：(1)在对三个项目的评估中，种族和民族中立的结果衡量标准是否产生了对项目影响的有偏见的估计？(2)当地的社会和经济条件是否影响了项目影响的分布？(3)项目干预对西班牙裔参与者是否比对非裔美国人和白人参与者更有效？与这些研究问题相关的假设将通过比以往研究更详细的因素分析和计量经济学应用来检验。这项工作的目标是丰富我们对不同亚群项目成功驱动因素的知识。 样本：支持健康婚姻和建立强大家庭计划和美国人口普查局的数据样本 措施： 这项研究将估计回归方程以检验假设。来自估计及其比较的系数是用来检验假设的度量，从而为三个研究问题提供答案。这项研究将分别重建黑人、白人和西班牙裔感兴趣的结果变量，以提高其内部一致性和可靠性。

Many studies document large differentials of marriage success by race and age, but the causal predictors, the factors that reliably identify outcomes and point to the factors that contribute to marriage success have yet to be clearly articulated or are contested. In this project, Howard University researchers will study three research questions drawing on three rich longitudinal datasets generated through the Health and Human Services/Administration for Children and Families supported family strengthening programs. Secondary analysis of these databases will provide additional analysis and reporting on impacts of race, ethnicity, location, socio-economic conditions, and age on understanding the success rate of the three programs. The expected outcomes will help agencies craft improved and culturally competent programming aimed at family strengthening. The research questions this study will address are: (1) Did race and ethnicity-neutral outcome measures generate biased estimates of program impacts in the evaluation of the three programs?; (2) Do local social and economic conditions affect the distribution of program impacts?; and (3) Were program interventions more effective on Hispanic participants than on African American and white participants? Hypotheses related to these research questions will be tested through more detailed factor analysis and econometric applications than that done in previous research studies. The goal of this work is to enrich our knowledge of drivers of program success across various sub-populations. Sample: Data samples from the Supporting Healthy Marriage and Building Strong Families programs and the U.S. Census Bureau Measures: The study will estimate regression equations to test the hypotheses. The coefficients from the estimation and their comparisons are the measures used to test the hypotheses and thus provide answer to the three research questions. The study will reconstruct the outcome variables of interest for blacks, whites and Hispanics separately to improve their internal consistency and reliability.