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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Liefbroer, Aart C. (Editor), Zoutewelle-Terovan, Mioara (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Demography. Population. Life cycle, Human. Social structure. Social inequality. Social groups. Family. Population Economics. Life course. Social Structure, Social Inequality. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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?.