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Male childlessness across the adult life course: A case study addressing a potentially ‘vulnerable’ population Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Cristina M. Pérez
Background Like other Latin American countries, over the past half-century, Colombia has experienced rapid urbanization, dramatic fertility decline, and massive educational expansion. These socio-demographic changes have transformed gender roles and, with them, the landscape surrounding reproductive decisions, family life, and opportunities in other life ‘domains.’ I draw on the ‘life course cube’
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Lifetime socioeconomic determinants of health trajectories among older adults Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Alejandra Letelier, Ignacio Madero-Cabib, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Pedro Pérez-Cruz
Drawing on life course theory and research, we explored how socioeconomic circumstances during childhood and adulthood shape self-reported health trajectories among older Mexican adults. We used data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study panel survey (2001–2015) and used sequence analysis to estimate types of self-reported health trajectories in older adulthood. We then explored the association between
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Limited detraditionalization of intimacy: Growing socioeconomic differences in contraceptive use at first intercourse in Italy Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Emanuela Struffolino, Hannah Zagel
This paper investigates links between social inequality and reproductive behavior. It complements the extensive research on the stratification of young adults' life chances in education and the labor market by considering changes over time in the stratification of contraceptive use at first intercourse by parental background. We seek to understand detraditionalization trends in young people’s sexually
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The Association between Spouses' Earnings and Trends in Income Inequality in Brazil (1993-2015) Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Weverthon B. Machado, Carlos A. Costa Ribeiro
In this paper, we investigate how the diffusion of dual-earner couples has affected aggregate levels of inequality in Brazil. More specifically, we analyze trends in the association between spouses' earnings and assess their effects on the earnings inequality among couples from 1993 to 2015. For this purpose, we use log-linear models to distinguish three components of the association between spouses'
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The impact of economic uncertainty, precarious employment, and risk attitudes on the transition to parenthood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Christian Schmitt
This study investigates how precarious employment throughout the life course affects the fertility behavior of men and women in Germany, and how risk attitudes moderate exposure to objectively given uncertainty. Analyzing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study from 1990 to 2015, I find that men and women have become quite similar in their fertility behavior: Stable employment accelerates
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Employment trajectories until midlife associate with early social role investments and current work-related well-being Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Ellen Ek, Leena Ala-Mursula, Regina García Velázquez, Asko Tolvanen, Katariina Salmela-Aro
Applying social investment theory (SIT), we examined whether employment trajectories until midlife, with differential investments in education and employment, are associated with social investments during early life and with work-related well-being in midlife, with a special reference to potential differences between self-employment and paid work. In the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (n = 6496;
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Maternal Human Capital Accumulation and Children’s Well-being Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Weihui Zhang
Research examining the intergenerational transmission of human capital is subject to two limitations. First, for the parental generation, most studies focus on formal education but fail to consider vocational training experience, which has more variation than formal educational attainment over the life course. Second, most studies have found consistent conclusions using income and occupation for the
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Gender Differences in High-School Dropout: Vulnerability and Adolescent Fertility in Chile Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Viviana Salinas, Valentina Jorquera-Samter
The original concerns about the consequences of adolescent fertility assumed that pregnancy is a turning point, which altered teens’ life trajectories in terms of school progress, human capital accumulation and labor force participation, placing them on a path of vulnerability. However, several years of research have shown that teenagers who become pregnant are not a random sample of the population
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Resources, aspirations and first births during the great recession Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Chiara Ludovica Comolli
Many studies show that labor market uncertainties are important predictors of the postponement of parenthood. While most existing studies investigate the consequences of the deterioration of employment conditions in absolute terms, in this paper I test the hypothesis that relative changes in occupational conditions affect childbearing choices. In particular, building on the Easterlin Hypothesis of
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“Juntos pero no revueltos”: family residential dependence and care vulnerabilities along the life course Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-01-23 Consuelo Araos, Catalina Siles
In the study of family residential dependence, Latin American literature has focused on coresidence and explained its relationship with care vulnerability trajectories in terms of the survival strategies of the poor. This approach implies the hypothesis of a substitution mechanism between family and paid care. However, this represents an incomplete picture of residential dependence in this context
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The Effects of Unemployment on Fertility Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2021-01-08 Signe Hald Andersen, Berkay Özcan
• We analyse the effects of unemployment on the likelihood of having a first and second birth in Denmark. The existing studies on this topic have generated contradictory results, and have made a weak case for the exogeneity of unemployment to fertility. We suggest that firm closures constitute an exogenous source of unemployment, and adopt firm closures as an instrument for estimating individuals’
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Low income dynamics and depression over the life course in South Korea Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Yujin Kim, Hyeyoung Woo, Elizabeth Withers
Objectives We examined how experiencing low income multiple times is associated with depressive symptoms over the life course to better understand the influence of low income experience on psychological well-being. Methods We employed fixed effects models to estimate the association between low income experience and depressive symptoms using data from a longitudinal survey of a representative sample
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Negative school experiences in early adolescence on depressive affect in middle adulthood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Ruth X. Liu, Zeng-yin Chen
This study takes a life course perspective to examine the long-term effect of negative school experiences during early adolescence on depressive affect in middle adulthood. The study uses a prospective longitudinal panel dataset that spanned nearly three decades with three waves: when respondents were at 7th grade (Time 1, mostly 12–13 years of age), young adulthood (Time 2, in their 20 s), and middle
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Migration, social stratification and dynamic effects on subjective well being Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Marcel Erlinghagen, Christoph Kern, Petra Stein
Using German panel data and relying on internal relocation, this paper investigates the anticipation and adaptation of subjective well-being (SWB) in the course of migration. We hypothesize that SWB correlates with the process of migration, and that such correlations are at least partly socially stratified. Our fixed-effects regressions show no evidence of any anticipation of SWB before the event of
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Participation in training at older ages: A European perspective on path dependency in life course trajectories Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Konrad Turek, Kène Henkens
Investments in lifelong learning may create unsatisfactory results, and this could potentially contribute to the reproduction of inequalities. We argue that the process is related to the accumulation of opportunities and barriers for participation in training, which can lock individuals in disadvantageous path-dependent trajectories. We take a longitudinal approach to analyse whether participation
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Joint social contact and network overlap of spouses facing later adulthood household transitions in Switzerland Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Ella Cohn-Schwartz, Adam R. Roth, Eric D. Widmer
Personal network overlap and joint social contact of spouses have positive implications for social support and marital quality. Although these collective aspects of marriage constitute a valuable resource for couples, the factors impacting them during the later stages of life are underexplored. When faced with critical role losses in later life one compensatory mechanism for internal continuity is
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Within- and between-person effects in the relationship between effort-reward imbalance and depressive symptoms Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-12-20 Hannes Mayerl, Erwin Stolz, Uwe Kowatz, Wolfgang Freidl
Theory suggests that a stressful working environment negatively affects workers’ health. However, methodological limitations in observational studies often restrict conclusions about observed relationships. In this study, we examined cross-lagged effects of effort-reward imbalance (ERI; i.e., an indicator of work stress) and mental health (i.e., depressive symptoms) at the within-person level, while
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Facets of parent–child relations in adulthood and their role in transmitting economic deprivation across generations Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-12-19 Marion Fischer-Neumann, Petra Böhnke
Despite the well-documented effect of parent–child relations in childhood on the reproduction of social disadvantage, little is known about how relationships between parents and their grown-up children are associated with this process. The present study addresses this research gap by investigating whether structural, cognitive, and functional aspects of family social capital in adulthood are connected
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Early retirement as a privilege for the rich? A comparative analysis of Germany and Switzerland Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Ursina Kuhn, Markus M. Grabka, Christian Suter
This contribution analyses early retirement in Germany and Switzerland with a focus on financial resources. Using data from CH-SILC linked to administrative records and the German SOEP, we distinguish three different financial resources: namely, pre-retirement labour income, net worth and pension entitlements. High labour income reduces the probability for early retirement. In contrast, high pension
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Intergenerational social mobility and health in Russia: Mind over matter? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Alexi Gugushvili, Patrick Präg
The consequences of changing one’s socio-economic status over the life course—i.e. social mobility—for individual health are not well understood. Theories of the health implications of social mobility draw on the human perception of one’s changing conditions, but empirical studies mostly examine the health implications of moving from objectively defined indicators of parental socio-economic position
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Linked lives, linked retirement? Relative income differences within couples and gendered retirement decisions in Europe Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Ariane Bertogg, Susanne Strauß, Leen Vandecasteele
Our article investigates the role of relative income distributions within couples for individuals’ retirement risks. It addresses the following questions: How does the share someone provides to the couple income affect that person’s retirement decision? What gender differences do we observe and what contextual factors can explain country differences? Our multilevel analyses draw on data from the European
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A life course framework for understanding digital technology use in the transition to adulthood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Stefanie Mollborn, Paula Fomby, Joshua A. Goode, Adenife Modile
Rapid increases in young people’s time spent using digital technology (“screen time”) in the mobile internet era have led to anxiety about long-term effects. This mixed-method US study examines childhood experiences and contextual factors that shape screen time in the transition to adulthood. We recursively analyzed 56 qualitative interviews with young adults in a large metropolitan area in 2016–2018
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Do children influence their mothers’ decisions? Early child development and maternal employment entries after birth Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Irina Hondralis, Corinna Kleinert
This study investigates whether early child development influences mothers’ decisions regarding when to return to the labor market in Germany. Previous research has examined how institutional, individual and household factors affect maternal work interruption durations after childbirth. This study extends the literature by focusing on the impact of children on mothers’ return-to-work behavior after
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.Linking social class inequalities, labor market status, and fertility: An empirical investigation of second births Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Pau Baizan
Abstract I outline a theoretical background for interpreting the effects of social class on fertility, based on social class and welfare regime theory. Social class differentials lead to different levels of economic wellbeing and security, compatibility of employment and childcare roles, and of gender equality. I hypothesize that class-specific combinations of these variables result in different incentives
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Different degrees of career success: social origin and graduates’ education and labour market trajectories Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Adriana Duta, Bożena Wielgoszewska, Cristina Iannelli
Most research on social inequalities in higher education (HE) graduates’ labour market outcomes has analysed outcomes at one or two points in time, thus providing only snapshots of graduates’ occupational destinations. This study contributes to the existing literature by examining the education and labour market trajectories of degree holders across their life course and how these trajectories vary
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Women’s changing work arrangements, career paths, and marital fertility in Japan Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura, Sang-Hyop Lee
Abstract By drawing upon birth history data gleaned from the 2007 and 2010 rounds of the National Survey on Work and Family (NSWF), we estimate the relationship between the married female worker’s use of the childcare leave scheme and her hourly wage, and then evaluate the impact of her predicted hourly wage upon her probability of proceeding from parity 0 to parity 1, as well as from parity 1 to parity
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School performance and mortality: The mediating role of educational attainment and work and family trajectories across the life course Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Andrew Halpern-Manners, James M. Raymo, John Robert Warren, Kaitlin L. Johnson
Abstract Evidence of a strong negative correlation between adolescent academic performance and mortality points to the importance of not only cognitive, but also non-cognitive, skills in predicting survival. We integrated two bodies of research to evaluate expectations regarding the role of educational attainment and trajectories of employment and marriage experience in mediating relationships between
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Does union formation change attitudes towards childbearing in Bulgaria? A propensity score analysis Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Alessandra Carioli, Emiliano Sironi
Abstract This paper explores how attitudes towards childbearing change after cohabitation and marriage. Entering in a union may affect attitudes towards childbearing, but at the same time individuals who are more oriented towards childbearing may be more determined to form unions. In order to disentangle the interplay between union formation and subsequent changes in attitudes towards childbearing
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Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Richard A. Settersten, Laura Bernardi, Juho Härkönen, Toni C. Antonucci, Pearl A. Dykstra, Jutta Heckhausen, Diana Kuh, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Phyllis Moen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Clara H. Mulder, Timothy M. Smeeding, Tanja van der Lippe, Gunhild O. Hagestad, Martin Kohli, René Levy, Ingrid Schoon, Elizabeth Thomson
The Covid-19 pandemic is shaking fundamental assumptions about the human life course in societies around the world. In this essay, we draw on our collective expertise to illustrate how a life course perspective can make critical contributions to understanding the pandemic’s effects on individuals, families, and populations. We explore the pandemic’s implications for the organization and experience
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Sibling influence on family formation: A study of social interaction effects on fertility, marriage, and divorce Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Zafer Buyukkececi, Thomas Leopold
This study examined social interaction effects on family formation and dissolution, asking whether fertility, marital, and divorce behavior spread in the sibling network. Using panel data from the German SOEP (1984 – 2016; N = 4,521 individuals), we estimated discrete-time event history models with random effects at the individual to examine whether siblings’ transitions to parenthood, marriage, and
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A lifespan developmental science perspective on trauma experiences in refugee situations Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Kristine J. Ajrouch, Rachel Barr, Colette Daiute, Anja C. Huizink, Paul E. Jose
Developmental science theory and empirical research on refugee situations requires an updated approach to the study of trauma as a multi-systemic and multilevel phenomenon. We present a theoretical framework that integrates developmental science approaches to highlight critical threats to development in situations of violent displacement. Given the complexities of displacement (causes, trajectories
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Lifetime parenthood in the context of single- and multiple-partner fertility Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Linus Andersson
The proportion of life spent caring for dependent children is a defining feature of life courses. This study uses Swedish register data to analyze the period of life spent as parents to children no older than 18 as a salient difference between single- and multiple-partner fertility trajectories. Individuals who have children with more than one partner spend a much longer time as parents to dependent
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Cumulative disadvantage during employment careers – The link between employment histories and stressful working conditions Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Hanno Hoven, Morten Wahrendorf, Marcel Goldberg, Marie Zins, Johannes Siegrist
Abstract Accumulated evidence on health-adverse effects of stressful psychosocial and physical work environments is considered a major breakthrough in recent social epidemiological research. However, research on adverse health effects of repeated exposure over time is lacking. In this contribution we analyse associations of characteristics of adverse employment histories with stressful psychosocial
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Is the problem mine, yours, or ours? The impact of unemployment on couples’ life satisfaction and specific domain satisfaction Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Frederike Esche
Abstract Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 1984-2017) and conducting fixed effects panel regressions, this study investigates the impact of unemployment on couples’ overall life satisfaction, as well as both partners’ satisfaction in specific life domains. Results confirm that job loss is harmful to both partners’ life satisfaction. In line with gender role models
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Self-employment as a work-and-family reconciliation strategy? Evidence from Poland Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Anna Matysiak, Monika Mynarska
As self-employment offers greater flexibility compared to wage and salary contracts, women might choose it to achieve a better work-family balance. Past empirical research on this topic yielded equivocal results, however. We add to this discussion and provide evidence for Poland. Public support for working parents in Poland is relatively poor and women need to develop strategies in order to combine
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Women’s greater late-life depression: Traumatic experiences or GxE? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-05-06 Aniruddha Das
Objectives This study examined the role of traumatic life experiences, and their interaction with genetic risk, in explaining gender differences in late life depression. Methods Data were from the 2008-through-2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, nationally representative of U.S. adults over age 50. Analysis was restricted to white participants. Newly available polygenic risk scores indexed
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Is the Effect of Job Uncertainty on Fertility Intentions Channeled by Subjective Well-Being? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Daniele Vignoli, Letizia Mencarini, Giammarco Alderotti
Abstract This article combines two apparently distinct strands of contemporary research on fertility: the literature on economic uncertainty and fertility; and the literature on subjective well-being and fertility. We advance the hypothesis that the impact of jobs with uncertain conditions on fertility intentions is channeled by an individual’s level of subjective well-being, which captures also unmeasured
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Girls' transition to adulthood and their later life socioeconomic attainment: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 Baowen Xue, Penny Tinkler, Paola Zaninotto, Anne McMunn
Abstract Transitions to adulthood represent a sensitive period for setting young people into particular life course trajectories, and the nature of these transitions have varied more for girls, historically, than for boys. We aim to investigate the long-term significance of different transitions out of full-time education for socioeconomic attainment in later life amongst postwar young women in England
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Chronic conditions, couple-level factors and union dissolution Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 Jack Lam, Sergi Vidal, Janeen Baxter
This paper examines the association between chronic illness and union dissolution by examining rich, longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. Using competing-risks discrete-time event-history models on longitudinal, dyadic data, we find the risk of union dissolution to be approximately 40 percent higher when either partner reports an illness than
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Is perception of inability to procreate a temporal phenomenon? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Jasmin Passet-Wittig, Martin Bujard, Julia McQuillan, Arthur L. Greil
Continued postponement of births and increasing use of reproductive medicine enhance the relevance of infertility and related perceptions for fertility research. Fertility researchers tend to assume that an existing perception of inability to procreate is a stable trait among persons of reproductive age. This assumption is questionable from a life course perspective and has not been thoroughly investigated
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The role of the changing social background composition for changes in inequality of educational opportunity: An analysis of the process of educational expansion in Germany 1950–2010 Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Pia N. Blossfeld
Using new longitudinal data from the Adult Cohort (SC6) of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) this paper examines how the highest educational attainment has changed in the process of educational expansion in Germany between 1950 and 2010. The study focuses on a fairly neglected question of the educational expansion process: Which role does the changing social background composition play in
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Short-term reciprocity between adult children and parents: A within-person investigation of longitudinal data Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-02-29 Hans Hämäläinen, Antti O. Tanskanen, Mirkka Danielsbacka, Bruno Arpino
Although reciprocity of intergenerational support has been widely considered in family studies, empirical investigations utilizing panel data are still rather scarce. This study used data from four waves of the German Family Panel (pairfam), which were collected in two-year intervals between 2009 and 2016. We examined whether the frequency of received support from parents previously is associated with
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Understanding lone mothers’ high poverty in Germany: Disentangling composition effects and effects of lone motherhood Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-02-28 Sabine Hübgen
Lone mothers are among the groups most affected by income poverty in Germany. Previous research shows that both lone mothers’ social composition (e.g. employment status, age, number of children) and the institutional context (e.g. family and labour market policies) are crucial for explaining this high vulnerability. Yet we know little about the underlying mechanisms. Hence, this study develops a theoretical
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Looking homeward with the life course: Early origins of adult dwelling satisfaction? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-02-25 Markus H. Schafer, Matthew A. Andersson
The long-term influence of childhood economic and social exposures on adult health and well-being is well-known. Most childhood circumstances transpire in or near the home, yet research has largely neglected how early exposures shape people’s experience of their residential context in adulthood. To help address this gap, we use retrospective longitudinal data from the Midlife Development in the United
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Not all the same: Swedish teenage mothers’ and fathers’ selection into early family formation trajectories Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Sara Kalucza, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Karina Nilsson
Previous research has focused on teenage parenthood as a single outcome, and has overlooked the wider family formation trajectory in which it is situated. In this paper, using Swedish register data and sequence analysis tools, we explore the diversity in timing and ordering of childbearing and (re)partnering events among teenage parents. We identify trajectory clusters of traditional family patterns
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Distance and acceptance: Identity formation in young adults with chronic health conditions Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Hillary Steinberg
Health has long been a chief concern of life course researchers, especially in examining early life. Research on chronic conditions and their impact on individual identity often center on biographical disruption or the idea of a bifurcation of “before and after” identities. This research examines identity formation in young adults with chronic health conditions that began in childhood, a population
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Mental health problems in adolescence, first births, and union formation: Evidence from the Young HUNT Study Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-01-30 Miriam Evensen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
While a large literature documents how mental health problems in adolescence have long-term consequences for adult socioeconomic outcomes, less is known about the relation with family-formation behavior. In this paper, we use data from a population based Norwegian health survey (the Young-HUNT study) linked to administrative registry data (N = 8,113) to examine the long-term consequences of symptoms
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A closer look at labour market status and crime among a general population sample of young men and women Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-01-25 Anke Ramakers, Mikko Aaltonen, Pekka Martikainen
Those in the most criminally active age groups are facing particular difficulties in entering the labour market and accumulating stable work experiences. This study uses a large representative sample of Finnish adolescents to examine how different labour market statuses are associated with crime. Both for men and women, within-individual variation in employment is inversely linked to all crime measures
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An overview of mixture modelling for latent evolutions in longitudinal data: Modelling approaches, fit statistics and software Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2020-01-25 Gavin van der Nest, Valéria Lima Passos, Math J.J.M. Candel, Gerard J.P. van Breukelen
The use of finite mixture modelling (FMM) is becoming increasingly popular for the analysis of longitudinal repeated measures data. FMMs assist in identifying latent classes following similar paths of temporal development. This paper aims to address the confusion experienced by practitioners new to these methods by introducing the various available techniques, which includes an overview of their interrelatedness
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Family formation patterns of children who experienced parental imprisonment Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-11-11 S.G.A. van de Weijer, H.S. Smallbone, V. Bouwman
While it is widely recognized that imprisonment affects the lives of prisoners, there is increasing evidence that the consequences also extend to prisoners’ children. Recently, several studies showed that the experience of parental imprisonment could also have an impact on family formation processes when children grow older. These previous studies, however, used relatively short follow-up periods,
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Unemployment delays first birth but not for all. Life stage and educational differences in the effects of employment uncertainty on first births Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-11-10 Anneli Miettinen, Marika Jalovaara
This study investigates how unemployment is associated with the transition to parenthood among men and women in times of increased instability in the labour market. We provide novel insights into how education and life stage might modify the link between unemployment and fertility. We focus on a Nordic welfare state, Finland, and apply event history models to a rich register sample covering the years
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The impact of job uncertainty on first-birth postponement Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Daniele Vignoli, Valentina Tocchioni, Alessandra Mattei
This paper aims to advance our understanding of entry into employment with uncertain conditions in Italy and its causal impact on the onset of the fertility process. We adopt the potential outcome approach to causal inference so as to quantify the net effect of having a first job with a temporary or a permanent contract on the propensity to have a first child within the first five years of employment
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Social differentials in the effect of formal childcare on the transition to parenthood? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-09-13 Jonas Wood
Although the hypothesis that formal childcare reconciles work and family life – and thus stimulates the transition to parenthood – is theoretically well-grounded and partially empirically supported, available literature has hitherto insufficiently acknowledged differential effects by population subgroups. This is remarkable as population subgroups are likely to exhibit different labour market opportunities
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How might life history theory contribute to life course theory? Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 Gert Stulp, Rebecca Sear
In this commentary, we consider how evolutionary biology’s life history theory (LHT) can be integrated with life course theorizing, to the benefit of both endeavors. We highlight areas where it can add value to existing work in life course theory (LCT), focusing on: how it can add an extra level of explanation, which may be helpful in understanding why individuals focus on their own health and happiness
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Crisis, recession and social resilience: A biographical life course analysis Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-08-16 Jane Gray, Jennifer Dagg
This article examines social resilience to the economic crisis and recession across three ‘generational cohorts’ of Irish people, using a mixed biographical life course approach. Drawing on narrative interviews and individual lifelines conducted as part of a cross-national European study, we describe and explain how age-differentiated lives and times intersected with ill-timed transitions and patterns
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Parent-child relationships and interracial first union formation in the United States Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-08-01 Jenjira J. Yahirun, Rhiannon A. Kroeger
The family of origin was once considered an important “third party” in shaping offspring romantic relationships. However, the increased independence of young adults challenges this idea by suggesting that parents today may have less control over children’s romantic lives than prior generations. Drawing on a “linked lives” framework, this paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent
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Mechanisms of family formation: an application of Hidden Markov Models to a life course process Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-07-29 Sapphire Yu Han, Aart C. Liefbroer, Cees H. Elzinga
Life courses consist of complex patterns of correlated events and spells. The nature and strength of these correlations is known to depend on both micro- and macro- covariates. Life-course models such as event-history analysis and sequence analysis are not well equipped to deal with the processual and latent character of the decision- making process. We argue that Hidden Markov Models satisfy the requirements
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The inseparability of human agency and linked lives Advances in Life Course Research (IF 1.614) Pub Date : 2019-07-20 Scott D. Landes, Richard A. Settersten
The notion that people make choices and take actions that determine the outcomes of their lives – human agency – is a central principle of the life course paradigm. Unfortunately, conceptualizations of agency, like larger developmental and sociological theories, often assume that agency is limited to individuals who are “developmentally normal.” We draw upon the thought of social scientists and disability