Stability of Mexican-Origin Extended Family Households

墨西哥裔大家庭的稳定性

• 批准号: 6945892
• 负责人: JENNIFER Van Hook
• 金额: $ 5.95万
• 依托单位: BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6945892
• 关键词: Mexican Americans; Mexico; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; family structure /dynamics; household; human data; immigrant; longitudinal human study; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the proposed research is to examine the formation and temporal stability of extended family households among Mexican immigrants and Mexican-origin natives. The high levels of co-residence with extended kin among immigrants have led researchers and policy makers to view extended family support as a valuable resource for immigrants. But the social and economic value of extended family living arrangements is likely to depend in part on their stability. Social scientists currently know very little about the stability of extended family households and even less about the social and economic factors leading to their formation and stability because most work on extended living arrangements, and all prior work on the living arrangements of immigrants, has relied on cross-sectional data. The contribution of the proposed research is to use longitudinal data available from 1992, 1993, and 1996 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to examine the extent to which Mexican immigrants and natives enter into and remain in extended family households, and to examine the social and economic determinants of entry into and duration of such living arrangements. The results of the research will provide insight into the social and economic value of extended family living arrangements among Mexican immigrants and natives. The research thus has important implications for the development and evaluation of those immigration and welfare policies that are based on the presumption of existing stable family support for new arrivals. The research is also of social scientific significance because it will provide a much clearer picture of the factors leading to the formation and dissolution of extended family households than has previously been provided with cross-sectional data. The proposed project focuses on a single large ethnic group, Mexicans, in order to place analytically helpful limits on group-level variation in preferences for co-residence and migration and settlement experiences. The research will serve as a springboard for a larger project examining the connection between economic well-being and living arrangements across multiple ethnic groups and the possibility that the benefits derived from co-residence differ by gender.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的总体目标是研究墨西哥移民和墨西哥原住民中大家庭的形成和时间稳定性。移民中与远亲同住的比例很高，这使得研究人员和政策制定者将大家庭的支持视为移民的宝贵资源。但大家庭生活安排的社会和经济价值可能部分取决于其稳定性。目前，社会科学家对大家庭​​的稳定性知之甚少，对导致大家庭形成和稳定的社会经济因素知之甚少，因为大多数关于大家庭的工作，以及之前所有关于移民生活安排的工作，都依赖于大家庭的形成和稳定。横截面数据。拟议研究的贡献是利用 1992 年、1993 年和 1996 年收入和计划参与调查 (SIPP) 小组的纵向数据来研究墨西哥移民和当地人进入并留在大家庭的程度，并审查进入此类居住安排及其持续时间的社会和经济决定因素。 研究结果将有助于深入了解墨西哥移民和当地人大家庭生活安排的社会和经济价值。因此，这项研究对于制定和评估那些基于对新移民现有稳定家庭支持的假设的移民和福利政策具有重要意义。这项研究还具有社会科学意义，因为它将比以前提供的横截面数据更清晰地描述导致大家庭形成和解散的因素。拟议的项目重点关注墨西哥人这一单一大族裔群体，以便对群体层面对共居、移民和定居经历的偏好差异进行分析上有用的限制。该研究将作为一个更大项目的跳板，该项目研究多个族裔群体的经济福祉和生活安排之间的联系，以及共同居住带来的好处因性别而异的可能性。