Whittington L A, Peters H E
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA.
Demography. 1996 Feb;33(1):82-97.
In this paper we examine the impact of the resource of children and of their parents on the children's transition to residential and financial independence. Previous studies of this transition focused primarily on the impact of family structure and parent-child relationships on the decision to leave home, but much less in known about the role of economic factors in the transition to independence. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) for the period 1968-1988, we estimate discrete-hazard models of the probability of achieving residential and financial independence. We find that the child's wage opportunities and the parents' income are important determinants of establishing independence. The effect of parental income changes with the child's age. We also find some evidence that federal tax policy influences the decision to become independent, although the magnitude of this effect is quite small.
在本文中，我们研究了子女及其父母的资源对子女向居住独立和经济独立转变的影响。此前关于这一转变的研究主要集中在家庭结构和亲子关系对离家决策的影响上，但对于经济因素在向独立转变过程中的作用却知之甚少。利用1968年至1988年期间收入动态面板研究（PSID）的数据，我们估计了实现居住独立和经济独立概率的离散风险模型。我们发现，孩子的工资机会和父母的收入是实现独立的重要决定因素。父母收入的影响会随着孩子年龄的变化而变化。我们还发现一些证据表明，联邦税收政策会影响独立决策，尽管这种影响的程度相当小。
