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Contents
About the Authors vii
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood 1
Sheldon Danziger and Cecilia Elena Rouse
PART I SECURING EMPLOYMENT AND COMPLETING SCHOOLING 25
Chapter 2 Failure to Launch: Cross-National Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence 27
Lisa Bell, Gary Burtless, Janet Gornick, and Timothy M. Smeeding
Chapter 3 Is the Company Man an Anachronism? Trends in Long-Term Employment in the United States, 1973 to 2006 Henry S. Farber 56
Chapter 4 Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood 84
Helen Levy
Chapter 5 Blurring the Boundary: Changes in Collegiate Participation and the Transition to Adulthood 107
Maria D. Fitzpatrick and Sarah E. Turner
PART II LIVING WITH PARENTS LONGER AND STARTING FAMILIES LATER 139
Chapter 6 Labor Market Experiences and Transitions to Adulthood 141
Carolyn J. Hill and Harry Holzer
Chapter 7 Young Adults Leaving the Nest: The Role of the Cost of Living 170
Aaron S. Yelowitz
Chapter 8 Sticking Around: Delayed Departure from the Parental Nest in Western Europe 207
Katherine Newman and Sofya Aptekar
Chapter 9 To Have and to Hold: An Analysis of Young Adult Debt 231
Ngina S. Chiteji
PART III FAMILY BACKGROUND, INCARCERATION, AND THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD 259
Chapter 10 Family Background and Children's Transitions to Adulthood over Time 261
Melanie Guldi, Marianne E. Page and Ann Huff Stevens
Chapter 11 Early Incarceration Spells and the Transition to Adulthood 278
Steven Raphael
Index 307