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Author: Seltzer, Judith A.
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Carbino, Jessica
Seltzer, Judith A.
Homeleaving at the Transition to Adulthood: Moving Out vs. Economic Independence
Presented: San Francisco CA, Population Association of America Meetings, May 2012
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Economic Independence; Economic Well-Being; Mobility, Residential; Transition, Adulthood

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Increases in the percentage of young adults who live with their parents bring renewed attention to homeleaving in the transition to adulthood. We ask what factors predict youths’ first physical departure from parents’ home. We also describe who leaves the parental home but remains economically dependent on parents. We then investigate differences between the predictors of physical homeleaving when the youth remains economically dependent and the predictors of homeleaving accompanied by economic independence. We use unique data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 that distinguish youths’ physical location from their status as economically dependent on parents. Individuals’ physical location affects labor market opportunities, the availability of social welfare programs, and parents’ ability to monitor young adults’ behavior. Our findings will shed light on homeleaving and economic independence, two dimensions of the transition to adulthood that are frequently treated as equivalent in demographic surveys.
Bibliography Citation
Carbino, Jessica and Judith A. Seltzer. "Homeleaving at the Transition to Adulthood: Moving Out vs. Economic Independence." Presented: San Francisco CA, Population Association of America Meetings, May 2012.
2. Hardie, Jessica H.
Seltzer, Judith A.
Parent-Child Relationships at the Transition to Adulthood: A Comparison of Black, Hispanic, and White Immigrant and Native-Born Youth
Social Forces 95,1 (September 2016): 321-353.
Also: http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/95/1/321
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keyword(s): Coresidence; Ethnic Differences; Immigrants; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parental Investments; Racial Differences; Transition, Adulthood

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Parents play a key role in launching their children into adulthood. Differences in the resources they provide their children have implications for perpetuating patterns of family inequality. Using data on 6,962 young adults included in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we examine differences in the support parents provide to young adult children by immigrant status and race/ethnicity and whether and how those differences are explained by parent resources and young adult resources and roles. Immigrant status and race/ethnicity are associated with patterns of support in complex ways. We find that racial/ethnic and immigrant disparities in perceptions of support, financial support, and receiving advice from parents about education or employment are explained by family socioeconomic resources. Group differences in whether young adults say they would turn to a parent for advice and coresidence persist after accounting for these factors, however. Young adult resources and roles also shape parental support of young adults in the transition to adulthood, but taking account of these characteristics does not explain immigrant and racial/ethnic group differences. Our findings highlight the need to consider both race/ethnicity and immigrant status to understand family relationships and sources of support.
Bibliography Citation
Hardie, Jessica H. and Judith A. Seltzer. "Parent-Child Relationships at the Transition to Adulthood: A Comparison of Black, Hispanic, and White Immigrant and Native-Born Youth." Social Forces 95,1 (September 2016): 321-353.