FAMILY FORMATION, CAREERTRAJECTORIES, AND HEALTH

我们项目的目标是了解年轻人的家庭形成过程与职业轨迹之间的关系。 以及家庭形成行为对青壮年健康结果的影响。有四个人 增加健康数据的浪潮，这个项目调查了早期的经历和对浪漫关系的投资 青春期的教育启动了延伸到成年期的轨迹，并影响到关于 20多岁的家庭形成和职业发展。在任何其他国家数据中都无法获得的独特数据 Set被使用，包括在青春期参与浪漫关系和新的Add Health教育 高中成绩单中有关课程和学习强度的数据。我们首先记录模式和 青壮年男女之间家庭形成和职业发展的差异 社会经济、种族、民族和移民群体。从生命历程的角度来看，我们借鉴了 社会化和机会结构，以确定三个领域内的重要影响机制 在家庭形成轨迹中运行的背景、生物学和行为。然后将它们的效果集成到 包括婚姻在内的青年时期家庭形成决定因素的动态纵向模型， 同居、婚育和非婚生育。我们用创新的方法来分析同步 参与家庭形成过程的决策，并有助于了解青少年的经历 而发育与青壮年的行为有关。最后，我们检验了关于影响的关键假设。 婚姻状况和早期非婚生育对心理健康和压力结果的影响，开发新的生物学 第四波的数据，以及在Add Health的四次访谈中对精神健康的重复测量。

The goal of our project is to understand processes of family formation in relation to career trajectories among young adults, and the consequences of family formation behaviors for health outcomes in young adulthood. With four waves of Add Health data, this project examines how early experiences and investments in romantic relationships and education during adolescence initiate trajectories that extend into adulthood and influence key decisions about family formation and career development in the 20s. Unique data that are not available in any other national data set are used, including involvement in romantic relationships during adolescence and new Add Health educational data on curriculum and academic intensity from high school transcripts. We first document patterns and differentials of family formation and career development among young adult men and women and across socioeconomic, race, ethnic, and immigrant groups. With a life course perspective, we draw on theories of socialization and opportunity structures to define the important mechanisms of influence within the three domains of context, biology, and behavior that operate in family formation trajectories. Their effects are then integrated in a dynamic longitudinal model of the determinants of family formation in young adulthood, including marriage, cohabitation, and marital and nonmarital childbearing. We use innovative methods to analyze the simultaneous decisions involved in processes of family formation and contribute to knowledge about how adolescent experiences and development are linked to behavior in young adulthood. Finally, we examine key hypotheses about the impact of union status and early nonmarital childbearing on mental health and stress outcomes, exploiting new biological data at Wave IV, as well as repeated measures of mental health over the four interview waves in Add Health.