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COVID-19: Braking or Accelerating the Decision to Leave the Parental Home in Southern Europe? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Valeria Ferraretto, Agnese Vitali, Francesco C. Billari
In 2020, COVID-19-related governmental restrictions forced individuals to radically change their habits, possibly impacting on their living arrangements. Whether COVID-19 affected young adults’ propensity to leave the parental home is still unknown; Southern Europe is of particular interest, as youth experience the “latest-late” transition to adulthood, face uncertainty in the labor market, and receive
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A longitudinal analysis of health inequalities from adolescence to young adulthood and their underlying causes Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Marvin Reuter, Katharina Diehl, Matthias Richter, Leonie Sundmacher, Claudia Hövener, Jacob Spallek, Nico Dragano
Research suggests that children of low-educated parents face greater health burdens during the passage from adolescence to young adulthood, as they are more likely to become low-educated themselves, establish behavioural and psychosocial disadvantages, or being exposed to unhealthy working conditions. However, studies examining the development and drivers of health inequalities during this particular
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Bridging social network and life course research: Unlocking the analytical potential Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Marlis Buchmann
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On integrating life course and social network research Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Peter V. Marsden
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Networked lives: Probing the influence of social networks on the life course Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Mattia Vacchiano, Betina Hollstein, Richard A. Settersten, Dario Spini
Social network research is well-equipped to help life course scholars produce a deeper and more nuanced approach to the principle of “linked lives,” one of the cornerstones of the field. In this issue on Networked Lives, nine original articles and two commentaries generate new theories, empirical findings and methodological applications at the intersection of the fields of social networks and life
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Editorial Board Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-11-25
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“Unlinked lives”: Elaboration of a concept and its significance for the life course Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Richard A. Settersten, Betina Hollstein, Kara K. McElvaine
This article introduces the concept of “unlinked lives” and illustrates its significance for scholarship on the life course. There are many lessons to be learned about human interdependence by focusing not on relationships that are formed and then maintained, but instead on relationships that are lost or ended by choice or circumstance, such as through changes in institutional affiliations, social
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Revisiting the power of future expectations and educational path dependencies Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Kaspar Burger
Individuals from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds and those with loftier future expectations typically have higher educational attainment. However, it is important to understand just how consequential future expectations are for educational attainment independent of socioeconomic origins—because these expectations might enable intergenerational social mobility. Moreover, it is unclear whether
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Who returned home? The COVID-19 pandemic and young adults’ residential transitions Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Lei Lei, Scott J. South
The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have led to an increase in the percentage of young adults living with their parents, but the relative contributions made by moves into and out of the parental home to this increase are unknown. Also unknown is whether changes in the likelihood of home leaving and returning were concentrated among privileged or disadvantaged youth. This study used data from the Panel
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Revisiting the caregiver stress process: Does family caregiving really lead to worse mental health outcomes? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Sae Hwang Han
While the act of caregiving is often characterized as a stressful experience detrimental to mental health, recent studies are challenging this view by reporting robust health and well-being benefits linked to family caregiving. The current study attempted to provide an explanation of this apparent paradox by focusing on the role played by family health problems in the association between being a caregiver
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Religiosity and trajectories of lifetime fertility intentions – Evidence from a German panel study Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Christoph Bein, Jasmin Passet-Wittig, Martin Bujard, Anne H. Gauthier
Much of the literature on fertility intentions has shown that they are broadly predictive of fertility behaviour. Fertility intentions tend to change over a person’s life. How religiosity affects these changes over time has rarely been the subject of investigation. In this paper, we focus on whether and how religiosity affects trajectories of lifetime fertility intentions. Specifically, we examine
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Corrigendum to: “Intergenerational Interdependence of Labour Market Careers” in Advances in Life Course Research 54 (2022) 1–10/100513 Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Anna Brydsten, Anna Baranowska-Rataj
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Do early life traumas moderate the impact of cumulative pandemic stress on anger? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Patricia Louie, Terrence D. Hill, Laura Upenieks
Do early life traumas condition the psychological consequences of pandemic stressors? Using national data from the Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (May-June 2021), we examine whether early life traumas buffer or amplify the impact of cumulative pandemic stressors (CPS) on anger, an understudied measure of emotional distress. We examine two competing perspectives. The trauma amplification perspective
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Gender ideologies across the transition to adulthood in Germany: How early romantic relationships slow down the egalitarian trend Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Janna Wilhelm, Pia S. Schober, Laia Sánchez Guerrero
This study explores the development of gender ideologies across adolescence and the transition to adulthood in Germany and investigates the relevance of first romantic relationship experiences in shaping gender beliefs. Integrating the life course perspective with the theoretical framework of gender as a social structure and psychological theories, we extend the literature by following adolescents
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Personal network dynamics across the life course: A relationship-related structural approach Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Betina Hollstein
Building on Georg Simmel’s concept of “form”, the article presents a relationship related structural concept of social relationships that specifically accounts for opportunities and constraints resulting from the fact that relationships are solidified patterns of interaction that, once established, can develop a power of their own (inertia, momentum) that cannot easily be influenced by the involved
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Can drug policies modify cannabis use starting choice? Insights from criminalisation in Italy Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Elisa Benedetti, Gabriele Lombardi, Sabrina Molinaro
A key question in the ongoing drug policy debate is whether legalising cannabis leads to an increase in cannabis use. In Europe although no country has yet moved to legalisation, many have decriminalised personal possession. However, some jurisdictions are still discussing increased sanctions or have further strengthened penalties for the possession of illicit substances in order to deter widespread
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The intragenerational mobility of the top income earners during financial crises, a story of a cohort Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Stav Federman, Assaf Sarid, Meir Yaish
In this study, we explore the dynamics of the intragenerational mobility of the top income earners during financial crises. We analyze panel data on the income levels of a cohort consisting of 22,601 individuals in Israel born between 1963 and 1973, for the period between 1995 and 2013. Studying a specific cohort allows us to focus on the changes caused by period effects, rather than cohort replacement
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Understanding sibling violence and its impact over the life course: The case of Ghana Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Eric Y. Tenkorang
Sibling relationships are a significant part of family dynamics, and sibling violence may be manifested in these relationships. Sibling violence has rarely been examined in the domestic violence literature on sub-Saharan Africa, so little is known about its prevalence or consequences. This study used a life course perspective to examine the effects of sibling violence on Ghanaian women’s intimate partner
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Life-course insecurity among young adults: Evidence for variation by employment status? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Lin Rouvroye, Aart C. Liefbroer
Previous research suggests that lack of employment security can lead young adults to experience a higher degree of insecurity with regard to their future life. We test the relationship between life-course insecurity, i.e. worrisome feelings with regard to one’s own future, and young adults’ employment status using a newly developed measurement instrument. Furthermore, we examine whether, in terms of
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Stratified pathways to Italy’s “latest-late” transition to adulthood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Luca Badolato
During the last few decades, Western societies have undergone substantial social and demographic changes, and the transition to adulthood progressively moved from an early, contracted, and simple pattern to a late, protracted, and complex one. These trends have been extensively analyzed under the Second Demographic Transition framework, emphasizing the role of individual agency and ideational change
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Offspring hospitalization for substance use and changes in parental mental health: A Finnish register-based study Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Lauren Bishop, Ylva B. Almquist, Joonas Pitkänen, Pekka Martikainen
Prior research indicates that parental psychiatric disorders increase their offspring’s risk of substance use problems. Though the association is likely bidirectional, the effects of an adult child’s substance use on parental mental health remain understudied. We examined parents’ psychotropic medication use trajectories by parental sex and educational attainment before and after a child’s alcohol-
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Exploring the place attachments of older migrants in Aotearoa: A life course history approach Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Vanessa Sieng, Ágnes Szabó
Migrants are faced with the task of creating a sense of home in a new context. As migrants grow older in their host countries, they are also making important decisions on where to live out the rest of their lives, making salient the places they attach themselves to. Place attachment, and its subcomponents of place identity and place dependence, are concepts that have been explored in the ageing and
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People’s perception of changes in their abortion attitudes over the life course: A mixed methods approach Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Xiana Bueno, Nana A. Asamoah, Kathryn J. LaRoche, Barbara Dennis, Brandon L. Crawford, Ronna C. Turner, Wen-Juo Lo, Kristen N. Jozkowski
Research examining the extent that people’s attitudes toward abortion vary across the life course is mixed. Some studies do not show a strong relationship between abortion attitudes and life stage, while others do find strong associations in both directions—older age associated with both more and less favorable attitudes toward legal abortion. Taken together, these findings suggest that individual
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Physical, sexual, and psychosocial health impacts of child abuse: Evidence from Ghana Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Eric Y. Tenkorang
Child abuse is a significant global health problem. While data on child abuse in Ghana are scant, anecdotal evidence suggests the vast majority of Ghanaian children have experienced some form of physical or sexual abuse. This paper explores links between early childhood abuse and health outcomes using a life course perspective. Nationally representative cross-sectional data were collected from a sample
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The timing of parental unemployment and children’s academic achievement Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Simon Skovgaard Jensen
In this study, I investigate the potential impact of parental unemployment on the academic achievement of children, with a particular focus on the child's age at the time of parental unemployment. While previous research has concentrated on isolated occurrences of unemployment, my study expands on this literature by examining the complete employment history of the parent over the child's life course
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Editorial Board Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-05-22
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Gender differences in mental health following the transition into parenthood: Longitudinal evidence from the UK Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Sandrine Metzger, Pablo Gracia
Previous studies have largely omitted a dynamic analysis of how the transition into parenthood shapes gender differences in mental health trajectories. This study adopts a life course approach to examine how transitioning into parenthood affects men’s and women’s mental health across multiple domains over time, using large-scale panel data from the ‘UK Household Longitudinal Study’ (2009–2020). Results
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Does providing informal care in young adulthood impact educational attainment and employment in the UK? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Baowen Xue, Rebecca E. Lacey, Giorgio Di Gessa, Anne McMunn
Most research on the effects of caring has focused on older spouses or working-age carers providing care for older people, but providing care in early adulthood may have longer-term consequences, given the importance of this life stage for educational and employment transitions. This study aims to investigate the impact of informal care in early adulthood on educational attainment and employment in
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Heterogeneous effects of emigration on labor market activity and investment decisions in Punjab, Pakistan Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Rabia Arif, Theresa Thompson Chaudhry
We investigate the impacts of emigration on the labor market and investment decisions of migrant-sending households in Pakistan by constructing a large individual-level dataset, using several rounds of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey conducted between 2003 and 2014. We add to the literature by introducing a new time-varying instrumental variable to control for endogenous migration decisions,
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Partnership dynamics and entry into parenthood: Comparison of Finnish birth cohorts 1969–2000 Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Leen Rahnu, Marika Jalovaara
During the past decade, the stability of close-to-replacement-level fertility ended in all Nordic countries, with its decline to the lowest level in Finland. It is unclear whether and how partnership dynamics have changed, and whether they play a role in fertility developments. We focus on the patterns and associations between the formation and stability of co-residential partnerships and first birth
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Socioeconomic position and executive functioning from childhood to young adulthood: Evidence from Santiago, Chile Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Erin Delker, Sheila Gahagan, Raquel Burrows, Paulina Burrows-Correa, Patricia East, Betsy Lozoff, Estela Blanco
Background Optimizing cognitive development through early adulthood has implications for population health. This study aims to understand how socioeconomic position (SEP) across development relates to executive functioning. We evaluate three frameworks in life-course epidemiology – the sensitive period, accumulation, and social mobility hypotheses. Methods Participants were young adults from Santiago
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Money management over the course of marriage: Parenthood, employment and household financial organization in Japan Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Beyda Çineli, Ryota Mugiyama
In Japan, differentiated gender expectations are strongly emphasized and Japanese wives shoulder the majority of the domestic work. Although previous research has examined the gendered division of paid and unpaid work in Japan, much less attention has been paid to household money management patterns among Japanese couples. Traditionally, Japanese women do the household financial organization, regardless
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Upwardly mobile biographies. An analysis of turning points in the careers of working-class faculty Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Kamil Luczaj
Building upon Bourdieusian sociology of education and Randall Collins' theory of, interaction ritual chains, this paper contributes to the literature on the biographical life course by analyzing the biographies of upwardly mobile academics, i.e. those who, escaped the “collective fate of their class.” Based on the collection of 25 unstructured, narrative interviews (life story narratives) and additional
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A qualitative life course perspective on covid-lockdowns and couples' division of unpaid labour Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Jonas Wood
Covid-19 lockdowns in many countries were characterised by increases in unpaid labour (e.g. home-schooling), as well as changing working conditions (e.g. remote work). Consequently, a large body of research assesses changes in dual earner couples’ gender division of unpaid labour. However, despite the increasingly detailed picture of households’ division of labour before and after the onset of the
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Stability and change of religiosity among baby boomers in adulthood: Associations with familism over time Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Woosang Hwang, Kent Jason Cheng, Maria T. Brown, Merril Silverstein
While it is commonly understood that familism is influenced by religiosity, less is known about how religiosity between young adulthood and midlife is related to the trajectory of familism from midlife over the later life course. In this study, we identified a multidimensional typology of religiosity among baby boomers in young adulthood and midlife, explored how membership in this religious typology
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Age integration in the social convoys of young and late midlife adults Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Sara M. Moorman
Homophily on the basis of age is a notable characteristic of social convoys across the life course. Ties to older and younger persons, therefore, are both unusual and potentially provide unique social support resources. This study examined relationships with older, younger, and same-aged non-kin ties among young and late midlife adults. Data came from the University of California Berkeley Social Networks
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Interconnected social convoys: Understanding health and well-being through linked personal networks Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Laura M. Koehly, Jasmine A. Manalel
The convoy model of social relations describes how social relationships contribute to an individual’s health and well-being from a life course and lifespan perspective. In large part, this model focuses on the unique, personal experiences of an individual, without due consideration of the reciprocal and shared relationships among those whose lives are inextricably linked. Here, we extend the convoy
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‘Boomerang’ moves and young adults’ mental well-being in the United Kingdom Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Jiawei Wu, Emily Grundy
Background In the UK and many other contemporary Western populations, attaining and maintaining residential independence is an important marker of a young person’s successful transition to adulthood. However, employment precarity, partnership breakdown, and difficulties in affording housing may mean that some young adults are unable to maintain residential independence and ‘boomerang’ back to co-reside
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Selecting qualitative cases using sequence analysis: A mixed-method for in-depth understanding of life course trajectories Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Guillaume Le Roux, Matthias Studer, Arnaud Bringé, Catherine Bonvalet
In this paper, we propose a sequence analysis-based method for selecting qualitative cases depending on quantitative results. Inspired by tools developed for cross-sectional analyses, we propose indicators suitable for longitudinal study of the life course in a holistic perspective and a set of corresponding analysis guidelines. Two complementary indicators are introduced, marginality and gain, that
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Is employment during motherhood a ‘value changing experience’? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Mireia Borrell-Porta, Valentina Contreras, Joan Costa-Font
We study whether the experience of ‘employment during motherhood’ (EDM) exerts an effect on attitudes towards the welfare effects of EDM, which proxy gender norms with regards to employment. We examine unique evidence from a large, representative, and longitudinal data set that collects attitudinal data over about a decade in the United Kingdom. We draw on an instrumental variable (IV) strategy that
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Life-course social connectedness: Comparing data-driven and theoretical classifications as predictors of functional limitations in adulthood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Elizabeth Teas, Kristine Marceau, Elliot Friedman
A life course perspective on social relationships highlights the importance of specific relationships at specific times in life, but analyses that account for life course trajectories in social relationships are rare. This study compares theoretical and data-driven approaches to classifying life course relationships, including multiple dimensions of social connectedness at different time points across
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Relationship quality and family formation in Europe Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Niels Blom, Brienna Perelli-Harris, Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik
The increase in cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing across Europe has raised questions about who still marries either before or after having a child. Although prior studies have addressed the sequence of marriage and childbearing, few have examined the role of relationship quality in these transitions. Here we employ a cross-national perspective to study the association between relationship quality
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Changes in young people's discourses about leaving home in Spain after the economic crisis Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Nayla Fuster, Isabel Palomares-Linares, Joaquín Susino
The increasing complexity of young adults’ leaving-home trajectories, combined with the effects of the economic recession, has led to an upturn in academic interest in this question. Nevertheless, the impact of the economic recession on young adults’ housing imaginary has yet to be extensively addressed. This article analyses the way social discourses on leaving home evolved before and after the economic
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Partnership trajectories and their consequences over the life course. Evidence from the German LifE Study Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Jana Jung
Objective Following a life course perspective, this study examines the link between partnership trajectories and three dimensions of psychological well-being: psychological health, overall sense of self-worth and quality of life. Background Assuming that life outcomes are the result of prior decisions, experiences and events, partnership histories can be seen as a resource for psychological well-being
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Editorial Board Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-11-23
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Sleep hours and quality before and after baby: Inequalities by gender and partnership Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Shih-Yi Chao, Brienna Perelli-Harris, Ann Berrington, Niels Blom
While prior studies have examined sleep across the lifecourse, few studies have investigated sleep around the birth of a child, one of the most important events to cause sleep deprivation. This study investigates changes in sleep hours and quality, paying attention to differences by gender and partnership status. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we follow approximately 1,000 participants
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A life-course perspective of sex trafficking among the bedia caste of India Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Rochelle L. Dalla, Kaitlin Roselius, Victoria J. Johnson, Jessie Peter, Trupti Jhaveri Panchal, Ramani Ranjan, Mrinalini Mischra, Sagar Sahu
Thousands of Indian women and girls enter the commercial sex industry (CSI) annually based solely on membership in particular castes (e.g., Bedia, Nat). CSI-involved females bear the burden of sustaining entire family units on money earned in the sex trade; it is a life-long responsibility with negligible social status or personal indemnity. Based on the life-course developmental theory (Elder, Jr
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Entwined life events: The effect of parental incarceration timing on children's academic achievement Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Matthew P. Fox, Ravaris L. Moore, Xi Song
Parental incarceration has negative effects on children’s educational outcomes. Past studies have only analyzed, and therefore only treated as consequential, parental incarceration that occurs during childhood rather than prenatally. Such analyses that emphasize the importance only of events that occur during one’s lifetime are common in life course studies. This paper introduces an “entwined life
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Internet use and cohort change in social connectedness among older adults Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Shannon Ang
Social connections are an integral part of living in society, and trends in social connectedness are thus closely scrutinized. The phenomenon of networked individualism argues that densely knit communities organized around formal social groups such as households and workplaces are becoming less common. Due to advances in technology, individuals are able to develop personalized communities that are
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Positive and negative risk-taking: Age patterns and relations to domain-specific risk-taking Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Joanna Fryt, Monika Szczygieł, Natasha Duell
People take risks at all ages to achieve certain goals. Although these goals may be achieved through negative risks (e.g., adolescent drinking to impress their friends), people also take positive risks. Positive risks are theorized to help individuals achieve goals in developmentally appropriate and socially acceptable ways, such as initiating a new friendship as an adolescent, applying for a promotion
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Intergenerational Interdependence of Labour Market Careers Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Anna Brydsten, Anna Baranowska-Rataj
Labour market disadvantages tend to run in families: children who grow up with parents who experience job losses or receive low wages are themselves at higher risk of experiencing labour market difficulties. However, little is known about the intergenerational transmission for those who manage to escape from precariousness, and how the transmission of labour market disadvantage operates depending on
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Contemporary gendered pathways into adulthood in South Korea Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Jiae Park, Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox
The transition to adulthood has become increasingly uncertain and variable. Among South Koreans, this transition has become more de-standardized since 1990, reflecting the effects of long-term economic stagnation and persistent, traditional gender norms, but little is known about the variability in pathways to adulthood among recent cohorts. This study employs sequence analysis to examine early life
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When life happens: A multidimensional approach to studying the effects of major life events on relationship change Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Chang Z. Lin, Alexandra Marin
Network theories and life course theories have made significant contributions to the study of relationship change over time. However, much prior work takes a unidimensional approach and conceptualizes “change” in terms of the loss of a tie or the loss of a specific function of a tie. Our paper problematizes “loss” in two ways. First, we conceptualize tie status in terms of active, inactive, and fully
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Editorial Board Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-08-27
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Linked lives and convoys of social relations Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-08-27 Noah J. Webster, Toni. C. Antonucci, Kristine J. Ajrouch
We consider linked lives through the Convoy Model of Social Relations to illustrate their complexity, consequences, and development across contexts. To illustrate how the Convoy Model lens provides a unique opportunity to examine the multidimensional and dynamic character of linked lives across time and space, we analyze twenty-three years of longitudinal data from the Social Relations Study (SRS)
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Making it work: How women negotiate labor market participation after the transition to motherhood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Martina Yopo Díaz
The increasing participation of women in the labor market coexists with traditional gender roles and a social division of labor that reproduces the feminization of childcare and housework. Reconciling the contradictions between work and family life has become one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary female life course. In this article, I analyze the strategies through which women in Santiago
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Better together: Advancing life course research through multi-cohort analytic approaches Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Meredith O’Connor, Elizabeth Spry, George Patton, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Sarah Arnup, Marnie Downes, Sharon Goldfeld, David Burgner, Craig A. Olsson
Longitudinal cohorts can provide timely and cost-efficient evidence about the best points of health service and preventive interventions over the life course. Working systematically across cohorts has the potential to further exploit these valuable data assets, such as by improving the precision of estimates, enhancing (or appropriately reducing) confidence in the replicability of findings, and investigating
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'Birds of a feather' - forever? Homogeneity in adult friendship networks through the life course Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Beate Völker
This paper studies the changes in the homogeneity of friendship networks in terms of gender, age, and educational diversity. It is argued that through the life course, both an individual’s demand and the structural supply of similar others change. This should be reflected in the composition of friendship relations in personal networks. Rich network panel data that cover a period of 19 years are employed
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The gender division of paid work over family formation: Variation by couples’ migration background Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Julie Maes, Jonas Wood, Leen Marynissen, Karel Neels
Although the gender gap in labour force participation has narrowed considerably in many European countries, life course scholars have shown that the transition to parenthood exacerbates gender inequality in couples’ division of paid work. Hitherto, variation by migration background has received limited attention in research on the effect of parenthood on couples’ gender division of paid work. This
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The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood: A dynamic analysis of young adulthood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 5.548) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Jessica Nisén, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Pekka Martikainen, Ben Wilson, Mikko Myrskylä
Young adulthood is a dynamic and demographically dense stage in the life course. This poses a challenge for research on the socioeconomic consequences of parenthood timing, which most often focuses on women. We chart the dynamics of delayed parenthood and its implications for educational and labor market trajectories for young adult women and men using a novel longitudinal analysis approach, the parametric