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Title: The Long Reach of Families: Family Structure History, Parental Support, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Young Adulthood
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Goldberg, Julia S. |
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The Long Reach of Families: Family Structure History, Parental Support, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Young Adulthood Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult, NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Divorce; Educational Attainment; Family Structure; Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Marital History/Transitions; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This project is composed of three empirical chapters. The first chapter uses matched mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort (NLSY79) to describe the association between young adults' family structure and their emotional closeness to their parents. The second chapter uses data from a sample of college students from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97) to evaluate the association between students' family structure and their receipt of financial assistance for college. Finally, the third chapter uses data from the NLSY97 to evaluate whether differences in family structure by parents' socioeconomic status can account for socioeconomic disparities in young adults' educational attainment at the population level. Taken together, these chapters document how family structure continues to matter for children's wellbeing as they embark on their adult lives, and they add new evidence to the debate about the importance of family structure for intergenerational mobility. |
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Goldberg, Julia S. The Long Reach of Families: Family Structure History, Parental Support, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Young Adulthood. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015. |