Department of Sociology, McGill University, Room 712, Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, Canada.
Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, Ford School of Public Policy and Sociology, University of Michigan, PO Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106-1248, USA.
Demography. 2020 Feb;57(1):195-220. doi: 10.1007/s13524-019-00851-w.
Unique longitudinal measures from Nepal allow us to link both mothers' and fathers' reports of their marital relationships with a subsequent long-term record of their children's behaviors. We focus on children's educational attainment and marriage timing because these two dimensions of the transition to adulthood have wide-ranging, long-lasting consequences. We find that children whose parents report strong marital affection and less spousal conflict attain higher levels of education and marry later than children whose parents do not. Furthermore, these findings are independent of each other and of multiple factors known to influence children's educational attainment and marriage timing. These intriguing results support theories pointing toward the long-term intergenerational consequences of variations in multiple dimensions of parents' marriages.
尼泊尔独特的纵向数据使我们能够将父母双方对其婚姻关系的报告与他们的孩子随后的长期行为记录联系起来。我们关注孩子的教育程度和结婚时间，因为这两个成年过渡期的维度会产生广泛而持久的影响。我们发现，父母报告说夫妻感情深厚、冲突较少的孩子比父母报告感情不和的孩子接受的教育程度更高，结婚时间也更晚。此外，这些发现彼此独立，不受已知会影响孩子教育程度和结婚时间的多种因素的影响。这些有趣的结果支持了这样一种理论，即父母婚姻的多个维度的变化会对代际关系产生长期的影响。
