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NEW EVIDENCE ON THE TIMING OF EARLY LIFE COURSE TRANSITIONS: The United States 1900 to 1980

dc.contributor.authorStevens, David A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-13T18:54:05Z
dc.date.available2010-04-13T18:54:05Z
dc.date.issued1990en_US
dc.identifier.citationStevens, David (1990). "NEW EVIDENCE ON THE TIMING OF EARLY LIFE COURSE TRANSITIONS: The United States 1900 to 1980." Journal of Family History 15(1): 163-178. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66843>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0363-1990en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66843
dc.description.abstractThis article is a description and analysis of the timing of early life course transitions in the twentieth century. Using data from national microdata samples of the census for 1900, 1910, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1980, the study investigates the timing of seven transitions to adulthood, relationships between pairs of transitions, and how changes in these patterns affected the behavior of several population subgroups. The results show that youth in the second half of the century made the transition to adulthood earlier and followed a more prescribed and compressed schedule of transitions than their early-twen tieth-century counterparts. The period of greatest change came after the Second World War, but by 1980 the trend toward earlier and increasingly age-graded familial transitions ap peared to have reversed. Between 1900 and 1980 there is also a homogenization of experi ence among subgroups.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleNEW EVIDENCE ON THE TIMING OF EARLY LIFE COURSE TRANSITIONS: The United States 1900 to 1980en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelHistory (General)en_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSocial Worken_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanitiesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of Michgan, Ann Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66843/2/10.1177_036319909001500110.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/036319909001500110en_US
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Family Historyen_US
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