Consuelo Araos, a researcher at the Signos UANDES Center, seeks to understand the changes in household formation.
With the objective of understanding the socioeconomic, demographic and cultural challenges faced by young adults in Chile, Consuelo Araosresearcher at the UANDES Sign Centeris carrying out the project "Oikonomías en movimiento. Local institutional contexts and domestic configuration processes among young Chilean lower middle class adults in two neighborhoods of Santiago".
This research seeks to understand changes in household formation, a phenomenon that has become more diffuse and moves away from the traditional nuclear household model. "Younger generations are delaying or not realizing important milestones such as finding a job, forming a stable couple, getting married and having children, which has led to an increase in the number of complex households, such as those formed by young adults living with their parents," explains Consuelo Araos.
The researcher was awarded the FAI Priority Thematic Areas Competition (ATP) given by the Directorate of Research of the Universidad de los Andes, and the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences UANDES participates as co-investigator in this interdisciplinary project, Matias PetersenThe author will contribute theoretical elements from institutional economics to understand how local institutional contexts interact with the processes of domestic configuration in lower middle class sectors, opening new perspectives on the formation of domestic units and the decisions of the new generations in this area.
The study focuses on young people between the ages of 18 and 34 and compares two Santiago neighborhoods, revealing which offers better access to local urban services.
Younger generations are delaying or not realizing important milestones such as finding a job, forming a stable partner, getting married and having children, which has led to an increase in the number of complex households, such as those formed by young adults living with their parents.
Consuelo Araos
FAI Competition Priority Thematic Areas
This call seeks to promote joint work among experts from different disciplines and academic units, strengthening associativity and the formation of interdisciplinary teams to generate scientific knowledge in the following priority areas:
1. Family: marriage, work-raising conciliation.
2. Life and human dignity: health and rights.
3. Religion: religious freedom and universities with ideology.
4. Education: challenges, threats and perspectives.
5. Contemporary Chile: historical, sociological and political approaches.
"This research highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity and has the potential to influence public policies for inclusive and equitable development," adds Claudia Brizuela, Director of Research at UANDES.