Collaborative Research: Understanding Migration and Fertility

合作研究：了解移民和生育率

基本信息

批准号：
1918274
负责人：
Julia Behrman
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
Northwestern University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1918274&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research Understanding Migration Fertility

项目摘要

This project investigates the question of whether migrant women's fertility reflects high desired family sizes or difficulties regulating fertility due to high cost, lack of knowledge about services, and other obstacles. Society's most vulnerable women often face great challenges with fertility regulation. This may be particularly true of international migrant women who often lack healthcare access, social networks, and/or financial resources that might be important for fertility regulation. In this study, the association between migration and fertility, family planning use, fertility preferences, and difficulties regulating fertility is investigated by comparing international migrants to women in their countries of origin who have similar background characteristics but did not migrate. Findings will expand knowledge concerning population change and will have the potential to inform outreach strategies and public health campaigns that reduce unintended outcomes. This project explores the association between international migration and fertility by combining data from both sending and receiving countries using a propensity score matching approach. To date, most studies have been limited to the use of data sources collected primarily in receiving countries and have typically compared migrants to native-born residents of the receiving country, rather than to residents of their country of origin with whom they share a common background. In contrast, our project integrates cross-sectional data from two surveys to create a novel data set that allows for matching highly similar respondents who did and did not migrate from sending countries to a receiving country. This enables: (1) investigation of the association between international migration and fertility by comparing migrants in receiving countries to similar non-migrants in sending countries; and (2) exploration of the association between international migration and underlying reproductive desires and behaviors that could help explain why migration is associated with fertility.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目调查了移民妇女的生育能力是否反映了由于高成本，缺乏服务知识以及其他障碍而导致生育能力的高度的家庭规模或困难。社会最脆弱的妇女经常在生育监管中面临巨大的挑战。对于通常缺乏医疗保健获取，社交网络和/或财务资源的国际移民妇女，这对于生育监管很重要的情况可能尤其如此。在这项研究中，通过将国际移民与具有相似背景特征但没有迁移的原籍国的妇女进行比较，研究了迁移与生育能力，计划生育使用，生育偏好和调节生育的困难的关联。调查结果将扩大有关人口变化的知识，并有可能为宣传策略和公共卫生运动提供信息，从而减少意想不到的结果。该项目通过使用倾向得分匹配的方法将发送和接收国家的数据结合在一起，探讨了国际移民与生育能力之间的关联。迄今为止，大多数研究仅限于主要在接收国家中收集的数据来源，通常将移民与接收国的本地居民进行了比较，而不是与他们共同背景的原籍国的居民。相比之下，我们的项目集成了来自两项调查的横截面数据，以创建一个新颖的数据集，该数据集允许匹配高度相似的受访者，这些受访者确实从发送国家迁移到接收国家。这使得：（1）通过比较接收国家的移民与发送国家的类似非移民的移民来调查国际移民与生育之间的关联；（2）探索国际移民与基本的生殖欲望和行为之间的关联，这些欲望和行为可以帮助解释为什么移民与生育能力有关。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估标准来通过评估来进行评估的。