Axinn W G, Clarkberg M E, Thornton A
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
Demography. 1994 Feb;31(1):65-79.
Several studies have demonstrated important effects of parents' childbearing behavior on their children's childbearing preferences and behavior. The study described here advances our understanding of these family influences by expanding the theoretical model to include parental preferences, siblings' behavior, and changes in children's preferences through early adulthood. Using intergenerational panel data from mothers and their children, we test the effects of both mothers' preferences for their own fertility and mothers' preferences for their children's fertility. Although both types of maternal preferences influence children's childbearing preferences, mothers' preferences for their children's behavior have the stronger and more proximate effects. Mothers' preferences continue to influence their children's preferences through early adulthood; siblings' fertility is an additional determinant of children's family size preferences.
多项研究表明，父母的生育行为对其子女的生育偏好和行为有着重要影响。本文所述的研究通过扩展理论模型，将父母偏好、兄弟姐妹的行为以及子女成年早期偏好的变化纳入其中，增进了我们对这些家庭影响的理解。利用母亲及其子女的代际面板数据，我们检验了母亲对自身生育的偏好以及母亲对子女生育的偏好所产生的影响。尽管这两种类型的母亲偏好都会影响子女的生育偏好，但母亲对子女行为的偏好具有更强且更直接的影响。母亲的偏好在子女成年早期仍会继续影响他们的偏好；兄弟姐妹的生育情况是子女家庭规模偏好的另一个决定因素。
