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

This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for adult outcomes differ across s...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Liefbroer, Aart C. (Editor), Zoutewelle-Terovan, Mioara (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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?.