Alicia Adsera, Princeton University
When |
Nov 07, 2022
from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM |
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Where | In-person, 1101 Morrill Hall |
Contact Name | Jennifer Doiron |
Contact Phone | 301-405-6403 |
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About the Presentation
We aim to develop a conceptual framework for identifying family ideals and to understand how they impact family behavior (especially union formation and fertility). Since existing cross-national surveys on family behavior typically contain little, if any, information on family ideals and strategies for realizing them, we designed a survey to collect this information via both conventional survey questions and novel randomly-generated vignettes of family profiles that individuals are asked to evaluate in terms of their “success” and desirability. Family profiles vary in terms of their marital status, number of children, family investments and interactions, educational aspirations and gender labor market specialization. We conducted the survey in 2021 using online panels in Italy, Korea, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Japan, China and the US. Many of these countries are characterized by some of the lowest fertility rates in the world, but have very different institutional settings, labor market arrangements, and family formation processes (including nonmarital unions and nonmarital childbearing). A better understanding of family ideals should allow us to theoretically integrate the ways in which mechanisms governing micro-level intimate family contexts scale up to (partially) explain macro-level trends in family patterns (e.g., national level trends in fertility, marriage, divorce).
About the Speaker
Alicia Adsera's interests are in economic demography, development and international political economy. Alicia is a Senior Research Scholar and lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Some of her recent work focuses on how differences in local labor market institutions and economic conditions are related to fertility and household formation decisions in the OECD (and Latin America). In addition she is interested in an array of migration topics (i.e. immigrant fertility; the relevance of language, political conditions and welfare provisions among the determinants of migration flows; the wellbeing of child migrants; differential labor market performance of migrants across European countries).
Seminar Format
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