Transitioning to Adulthood in the Wake of the Great Recession: Context and Consequences

Wightman, Patrick; Schoeni, Robert F.; Patrick, Megan E.; Schulenberg, John E.

doi:10.1017/9781316779507.011

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“…Based on existing research (Kahn et al 2013; Schoeni and Ross 2005; Wightman et al 2013), we expect increasing levels of support of adult children among more recent parental cohorts. We expect this changing level of support to be associated with a number of cohort changes in needs and resources.…”

Section: Cohort As a Link Between Family Structure And Intergeneratiomentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Wightman et al (2013) examined this issue from the perspective of birth cohorts of children, finding that support for young adult children has increased over time and linking this increase to three aspects of the changing transition to adulthood: an increase in length of education, a decline in the proportion of young people married, and lower levels of full-time employment. They found no evidence that the relationship between these characteristics and support for children has changed over time.…”

Section: Cohort As a Link Between Family Structure And Intergeneratiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Wightman et al (2013) research focused on the extent to which social change has resulted from the succession of birth cohorts of children. We examine the issue of cohort succession in the cohort of parents.…”

Section: Cohort As a Link Between Family Structure And Intergeneratiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Changes in education have led to an increase in the proportion of college graduates in the population aged 25–29 (Bauman 2016). However, young adults are more financially dependent on their parents than in the past (Kahn et al 2013; Schoeni and Ross 2005; Wightman et al 2013). To explore whether these cohort differences are associated with secular change in the level of parent-to-child money transfers, we first discuss the significance and determinants of intergenerational transfers and then link changing transfer patterns to cohort change in families.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Cohort Differences in Parental Financial Help to Adult Children

2018

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In this article, we examine birth cohort differences in parents' provision of monetary help to adult children with particular focus on the extent to which cohort differences in family structure and the transition to adulthood influence these changes. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study from 1994 to 2010, we compare financial help to children of three respondent cohorts as the parents in these birth cohorts from ages 53-58 to 57-62. We find that transfers to children have increased among more recent cohorts. Two trends-declining family size and children's delay in marriage-account for part of the increase across cohorts. However, other trends, such as the increase in the number of stepchildren and increasing child's income level, tend to decrease the observed cohort trend.

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Section: Cohort As a Link Between Family Structure And Intergeneratiomentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Cohort As a Link Between Family Structure And Intergeneratiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cohort As a Link Between Family Structure And Intergeneratiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Cohort Differences in Parental Financial Help to Adult Children

2018

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“…Because parents’ wealth, especially home ownership, is one way that parents finance their offspring's college educations (Lovenheim [25]), wealth in one generation affects the welfare of the next generation. Over the past three decades these transfers from parents to offspring have become more important for supporting young adults through college (Wightman et al [46]).…”

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Intergenerational family support processes from young adulthood through later life: Do we need a new national survey?

Seltzer¹

2015

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I argue that the United States needs new survey data on intergenerational relationships in light of the dramatic demographic changes in parent-child and couple relationships that were not anticipated when many major family datasets were designed. Increases in nonmarital childbearing, the instability of parents’ relationships and high rates of repartnering challenge conventional approaches to data collection on families. Large race-ethnic and socioeconomic differences in the extent of these changes and their impact on intergenerational support may contribute to growing inequality. A new study must collect data on both household relationships and relationships among family members who live apart because most U.S. parents and adult offspring do not co-reside. The survey should obtain information on the timing of family transitions and include multiple cohorts to take account of differences in societal conditions that influence family experiences. A longitudinal design would show how parent-child relationships unfold over time and build on past histories. The paper identifies the dimensions of intergenerational ties that should be measured and explains why existing data cannot address the need for a new study.

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