FAMILY FORMATION, CAREER TRAJECTORIES AND HEALTH

我们项目的目标是了解年轻人家庭形成过程与职业轨迹的关系 成年人，以及家庭形成行为对年轻成年人健康结果的影响。具有四 通过一波又一波的添加健康数据，该项目研究了浪漫关系中的早期经历和投资 青少年时期的教育开始了延伸到成年期的轨迹，并影响了关于以下问题的关键决定： 20年代的家庭组建和职业发展。任何其他国家数据中没有的独特数据 一套使用，包括在青少年和新添加健康教育的浪漫关系的参与 从高中成绩单中获得的课程和学术强度数据。我们首先记录模式， 青年男女之间以及青年男女之间在家庭组建和职业发展方面的差异 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 家庭形成轨迹中的背景、生物学和行为。然后将其效果整合到 青年时期家庭形成的决定因素的动态纵向模型，包括婚姻， 同居以及婚内和非婚生育。我们使用创新的方法来分析同时 参与家庭形成过程的决定，并有助于了解青少年如何经历 和发展与年轻人的行为有关。最后，我们研究了关于影响的关键假设， 结合状态和早期非婚生育对心理健康和压力结果的影响， 数据在第四波，以及重复测量心理健康的四个采访波在添加健康。

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.