Bio-social Determinants of Fertility & Related Behaviors

生育力的生物社会决定因素

• 批准号: 6686511
• 负责人: Hans-Peter Kohler
• 金额: $ 30.93万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6686511
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; behavioral genetics; clinical research; fertility; gene environment interaction; human data; human subject; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; motivation; psychological shock; quality of life; sex behavior; social behavior; socioeconomics; twin /multiplet

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A contemporary challenge for many social sciences is the integration of biological and socioeconomic approaches in a more unified framework that (a) acknowledges the role of biological endowments, (b) recognizes biologically mediated variation in psychological characteristics and personal behaviors, and (c) maintains at the same time a possibly strong role for conscious and rational decision-making in a life-cycle perspective. Behaviors related to fertility are primary candidates for this integration. In the proposed project, we will therefore use large-scale, population-based and longitudinal Danish twin data on fertility, fertility related behaviors and well-being to empirically investigate and theoretically conceptualize bio-social determinants of fertility and related behaviors. The data for these analyses will be partially collected in the course of the proposed project, but much of the project involves existing data already available in the Danish Twin Registry. Our analyses of these data will (1) establish the genetic component of the variance in fertility and related behaviors, including investigations of gene-environment interactions and long-term cohort comparisons; (2) provide a decomposition of this genetic contribution into different pathways, such as through education/human capital accumulation, union formation or labor market participation; (3) estimate structural models for fertility, investments in child-quality, union-formation, labor force participation that control for biological and other endowments using within-MZ estimates; (4) estimate the contributions of children (and marriage) to subjective well-being and happiness, after controlling for biological and other endowments, in order to better understand the motivation of why individuals desire to have children; (5) analyze biological influences on social interaction processes among twins that affect fertility, partnership formation and happiness derived from children; and (6) investigate the impact of the "shock" of having twins on subsequent family outcomes in order to study the implications of quantum-variations on investments in child-quality, parent's human-capital accumulation and labor-market behavior within evolutionary and economic allocation models.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A contemporary challenge for many social sciences is the integration of biological and socioeconomic approaches in a more unified framework that (a) acknowledges the role of biological endowments, (b) recognizes biologically mediated variation in psychological characteristics and personal behaviors, and (c) maintains at the same time a possibly strong role for conscious and rational decision-making in a life-cycle perspective.与生育有关的行为是这种整合的主要候选人。因此，在拟议的项目中，我们将使用有关生育能力，相关行为和幸福感的大规模，基于人群和纵向的丹麦双胞胎数据，以经验研究和理论上概念化生育和相关行为的生物社会决定因素。这些分析的数据将在拟议项目的过程中部分收集，但是大部分项目涉及丹麦双胞胎注册表中已经可用的现有数据。 我们对这些数据的分析将（1）建立生育和相关行为方差的遗传成分，包括研究基因环境相互作用和长期同伴比较； （2）将这种遗传贡献分解为不同的途径，例如通过教育/人力资本积累，工会形成或劳动力市场参与； （3）估算生育能力，儿童质量投资，工会形成，劳动力参与的结构模型，以使用MZ估计来控制生物学和其他捐赠； （4）估计儿童（和婚姻）对主观幸福感和幸福的贡献，在控制生物和其他捐赠之后，以更好地理解个人渴望生育孩子的动机； （5）分析生物学对影响生育能力，伙伴关系形成和幸福的双胞胎的社会互动过程的影响； （6）研究双胞胎对随后的家庭结果的“冲击”的影响，以研究量子变化对儿童质量，父母的人类资本积累和劳动力市场行为对进化和经济分配模型的影响。