The price of independence : the economics of early adulthood / Sheldon Danziger and Cecilia Elena Rouse, editors

Published:: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007]
Copyright Date:: ©2007
Physical Description:: viii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Danziger, Sheldon and Rouse, Cecilia Elena

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Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Contents:

pt. I. Securing employment and completing schooling. Failure to launch : cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence / Lisa Bell ... [et al.] -- Is the company man an anachronism? Trends in long-term employment in the United States, 1973-2006 / Henry Farber -- Health insurance and the transition to adulthood / Helen Levy -- Blurring the boundary : changes in collegiate participation to adulthood / Maria D. Fitzpatrick and Sarah E. Turner -- pt. II. Living with parents longer and starting families later. Labor market experiences and transitions to adulthood / Carolyn J. Hill and Harry Holzer -- Young adults leaving the nest : the role of the cost-of-living / Aaron S. Yelowitz -- Sticking around : delayed departure from the parental nest in Western Europe / Katherine Newman and Sofya Aptekar -- To have and to hold : an analysis of young adult debt / Ngina S. Chiteji -- pt. III. Family background, incarceration and the transition to adulthood. Family background and children's transition to adulthood over time / Melanie Guldi, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens -- Early incarceration spells and the transition to adulthood / Steven Raphael.

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ISBN:

0871543168
9780871543165

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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