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Changes in women’s family trajectories in Mexico and Colombia 墨西哥和哥伦比亚妇女家庭轨迹的变化

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100686

Pilar Wiegand-Cruz , Viviana Salinas

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Rushed into adulthood: Child marriage and women’s work-family life courses in Egypt 仓促步入成年：埃及的童婚和妇女的工作-家庭生活历程

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100687

Mariam Abouelenin , Yang Hu

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Women’s pathways to motherhood in India: The intersecting roles of partnership and educational trajectories 印度妇女成为母亲的途径：伙伴关系和教育轨迹的交叉作用

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100688

Rojin Sadeghi , Matthias Studer , Michel Oris

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Navigating threads of a young adult life-course: Tangled complexity in the education and work pathways of African university graduates 青年人生轨迹的导航：非洲大学毕业生教育和工作路径的错综复杂

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100689

Adam Cooper , Andrea Juan , Nokhetho Mhlanga

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Facilitating the recall of biographical data: Alternatives to life history calendars 促进传记数据的回忆：生活史日历的替代品

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100677

Irina Bauer

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Religious affiliation and the division of housework over the life course 宗教信仰和一生中家务的分工

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100676

Luoman Bao, Zhe (Meredith) Zhang, Roseann Giarrusso

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Silver sanctions: Legal financial obligations in an aging population 银发制裁：人口老龄化的法律财务义务

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100674

Kate K. O’Neill, Alexes Harris

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Reproductive waithood: An exploratory cohort study of changes in the transition to motherhood in Chile

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100675

Martina Yopo Díaz , Ignacio Cabib

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Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain 延迟过渡到成年和辅助生殖：西班牙教育差异的研究

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100672

Cristina Suero , Marie-Caroline Compans , Eva Beaujouan

{"title":"Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain","authors":"Cristina Suero , Marie-Caroline Compans , Eva Beaujouan","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100672","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100672","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transitions to adulthood are increasingly delayed in low-fertility countries, particularly among highly educated women, with significant implications for the timing of attempts to conceive and parenthood. Delayed childbearing increases the risk of infertility and the reliance on assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Spain has experienced pronounced delays in transitions to adulthood alongside a substantial rise in ART use over recent decades. This research adopts a life course approach to examine the association between delayed transitions to adulthood, the likelihood of using ART, and the chances of achieving a live birth following ART, accounting for variations by age and educational attainment. Based on a sample of 12,930 women aged 24–55 from the 2018 Spanish Fertility Survey (SFS 2018), event-history analyses reveal that late first stable employment is associated with a lower likelihood of using ART, particularly for women without university education. Conversely, late housing independence and late coresidential partnership – up to the mid-30s – are linked to a higher likelihood of using ART. Among ART users, the likelihood of achieving a live birth decreases markedly with age, but declines less sharply for university-educated women. The timing of transitions to adulthood and the likelihood of achieving a live birth after ART are not related, except among women who left the parental home or entered a partnership particularly late, who are less likely to succeed. Overall, the findings suggest that ART offers limited capacity to mitigate the effects of delayed transitions to adulthood and fertility, especially for less educated women.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 100672"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143894890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Digital nomadism from a life course perspective 从生命历程的角度看数字游牧

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100673

Juul H.D. Henkens

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