FAMILY CHANGE, FAMILY RESOURCES, AND CHILD WELL-BEING

家庭变化、家庭资源和儿童福祉

• 批准号: 2199841
• 负责人: Elizabeth J. Thomson
• 金额: $ 10.39万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-09-01 至 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2199841
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); child psychology; child rearing; child welfare; divorce /separation; family structure /dynamics; human data; income; marriage /marital status; mathematical model; middle childhood (6-11); parent offspring interaction; quality of life; social support network; socioeconomics

The proposed research will investigate the effects of divorce and (re)marriage on family resources and children's well-being. It will address three central questions: 1. Does divorce or (re)marriage directly affect children, or are associations between these events and child well-being due to pre- existing differences between families who experience them? 2. Does divorce or (re)marriage affect family resources available to children -- economic, parental, and kin-community? Or are associations between these events and family resources also due to pre-existing differences between families? 3. To what extent do effects of divorce or (re)marriage on family resources account for effects of these events on children? We will use data from the National Surveys of Families and Households, conducted in 1987-88 and 1992-93, to estimate models of divorce and (re)marriage effects on family resources and child well-being. The first survey includes interviews with a primary respondent and her/his spouse or cohabiting partner in 1987-88. Follow-up interviews are being conducted with the same primary respondent, her/his current spouse or cohabiting partner, former spouses who were married to the primary respondent at the first interview, and a randomly selected focal child who was age 5-18 in NSFH-1 and who will be age 10-23 at NSFH-2. As a foundation for estimating structural models of divorce or (re)marriage effects, we will conduct measurement analyses to determine the stability of measures across time, and the relative quality of measures based on reports by parents and children in NSFH-2. Our primary models will be based on the observed panel data, using lagged endogenous variables. We will compare estimates from these models with those produced by fixed-effects and selection models where appropriate and feasible.For each of the central questions listed above, we will investigate potential interactions of structural effects with child's sex and with race/ethnicity. We will also investigate the extent to which effects of divorce or (re)marriage depend on child's age at event, and whether effects change over time.

拟议的研究将研究离婚的影响和 （重新）关于家庭资源和儿童福祉的婚姻。会 解决三个中心问题： 1。离婚或（重新）婚姻直接影响儿童，或者是 这些事件与儿童福祉之间的关联 经历他们的家庭之间的现有差异？ 2。离婚或（重新）婚姻会影响可用的家庭资源 儿童 - 经济，父母和亲戚社区？或是关联 在这些事件和家庭资源之间也是由于已经存在的 家庭之间的差异？ 3。离婚或（重新）婚姻对家庭的影响有多大程度的影响 资源对这些事件的影响对儿童产生影响？ 我们将使用国家调查的家庭和家庭调查的数据， 于1987 - 88年和1992 - 93年进行，以估计离婚模型和 （重新）婚姻对家庭资源和儿童福祉的影响。第一个 调查包括对主要受访者和她/他的配偶的采访 或1987 - 88年的同居合作伙伴。后续采访正在 与同一主要受访者，她/他的现任配偶或 同居伴侣，嫁给主要的配偶 受访者在第一次访谈中，还有一个随机选择的焦点儿童 在NSFH-1中5-18岁，在NSFH-2年龄为10-23岁。 作为估计离婚结构模型或 （重新）婚姻影响，我们将进行测量分析以确定 跨时间的措施的稳定性以及相对质量 根据NSFH-2中父母和孩子的报告进行的措施。我们的主要 模型将基于观察到的面板数据，使用滞后的内源性 变量。我们将将这些模型的估计值与这些模型进行比较 在适当的情况下由固定效应和选择模型产生 可行。对于上面列出的每个中心问题，我们将 研究结构效应与儿童性别的潜在相互作用 以及种族/种族。我们还将调查在多大程度上 离婚或（重新婚姻的影响）取决于事件发生的孩子的年龄，以及 效果是否会随着时间而变化。