Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Aart C. Liefbroer, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan

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This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-04-22
Mått155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt448 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor171
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030673444

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Aart C. Liefbroer is Leader of the Theme Group on ‘Families and Generations’ and member of the Management Team at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, Netherlands, professor of Life Course Demography at the University Medical Centre Groningen of the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and professor by special appointment of Demography of Young Adults and Intergenerational Transmission at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is interested in determinants and consequences of young adults’ demographic decisions.Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan is a researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and is affiliated with the University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands. She applies life-course concepts and theories to examine antecedents and consequences of young adults’ decisions concerning family life, work life and criminal engagement.

Chapter 1. Social Background and Adult Socio-Demographic Outcomes in a Cross-National Comparative Perspective: An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Cross-National Variation in the Link Between Parental Socio-Economic Status and Union Formation and Dissolution Processes.- Chapter 3. Nonmarital Fertility in Europe and North-America: What is the Role of Parental SES and Own SES?.- Chapter 4. The Persistent Influence of Socio-Economic Background on Family Formation Pathways and Disadvantage in Young Adulthood.- Chapter 5. Adding Well-Being to Ageing: Family Transitions as Determinants of Later-Life Socio-Emotional and Economic Well-Being.- Chapter 6. Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression: An Alternative to Multilevel Analysis when the Number of Countries is Small.- Chapter 7. Modeling the Genesis of Life Courses.- Chapter 8. Understanding the Mechanisms of Intergenerational Social Inequality in Demographic Behavior.- Chapter 9. Explaining Cross-National Differences in Social Background Effects: What Have We Learned?.