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The price of independence : the economics of early adulthood / Sheldon Danziger and Cecilia Elena Rouse, editors.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy
- Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adulthood--Economic aspects--United States.
- Adulthood.
- Young adults--United States--Economic conditions.
- Young adults.
- Labor market--United States.
- Labor market.
- Economic conditions.
- United States.
- Cost and standard of living--United States.
- Cost and standard of living.
- Families--Economic aspects--United States.
- Families.
- Families--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007]
- Contents:
- pt. I. Securing employment and completing schooling. Failure to launch : cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence / Lisa Bell, Gary Burtless, Janet Gornick, and Timothy M. Smeeding
- Is the company man an anachronism? : trends in long term employment, 1973-2005 / Henry Farber
- Health insurance and the transition to financial adulthood / Helen Levy
- Blurring the boundary : changes in the transition from college 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 cost-of-living / Aaron S. Yelowitz - Sticking around : delayed departure from the parental nest in Western Europe / Katherine Newman and Sofya Aptkekar
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0871543168
- 9780871543165
- OCLC:
- 125402432
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