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Reproductive waithood: An exploratory cohort study of changes in the transition to motherhood in Chile 生殖等待期：智利向母性过渡变化的探索性队列研究

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub 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

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100672

Cristina Suero , Marie-Caroline Compans , Eva Beaujouan

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Gendered life-course trajectories of childcare and informal care in the Netherlands 荷兰儿童保育和非正式照料的性别化生命历程轨迹

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100671

Ayşegül Güneyli, Katia Begall, Ellen Verbakel

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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

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100674

Kate K. O’Neill, Alexes Harris

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

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100673

Juul H.D. Henkens

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Longitudinal associations between personal identity and parenthood among finnish young adults 芬兰年轻人个人认同与为人父母的纵向关联

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100662

Rasmus Mannerström , Florencia M. Sortheix , Lauri Hietajärvi , Katariina Salmela-Aro

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Divorce in same-sex and opposite-sex couples: The roles of intermarriage, religious affiliation, and income 同性和异性夫妻的离婚：异族婚姻、宗教信仰和收入的作用

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100669

Elina Einiö , Maria Ponkilainen

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Life course socioeconomic position and cognitive aging in later life: A scoping review 生命历程、社会经济地位与晚年认知衰老：一个范围综述

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100670

Mengling Cheng , Lore Van Herreweghe , Aswathikutty Gireesh , Stefan Sieber , Kenneth F. Ferraro , Stéphane Cullati

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Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100652

Alina Pelikh, Morag Henderson

{"title":"Sibling similarity in education and employment trajectories at ages 16–19 in the UK: The role of parental influence and individual experiences in early adolescence","authors":"Alina Pelikh, Morag Henderson","doi":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100652","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100652","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Young people’s early education and employment trajectories (EET) hold profound implications for either perpetuating or alleviating social inequalities across the life course. Family background plays an instrumental role in shaping these trajectories, but we have little understanding of how similar or different these trajectories are between siblings and which early adolescent experiences are associated with individual trajectories. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, this paper explored how individual early adolescent experiences (ages 10–15) influence siblings' EET in late adolescence (ages 16–19). We used a combination of sequence and cluster analysis to create a typology of trajectories, compare these outcomes on three analytic samples <strong>–</strong> the related siblings, conditionally assigned unrelated peers and randomly matched unrelated peers – and then used a multivariable regression approach to determine the extent to which trajectories among siblings are shaped by individual early adolescent experiences. Siblings exhibited a greater tendency to follow similar post-16 EET compared to unrelated peers, including those coming from similar backgrounds, highlighting persistent effects of the family of origin. However, siblings often diverge onto different trajectories, pointing to the role of individual experiences in the process of status attainment within the family. Thus, adolescents’ positive educational aspirations and feeling of family support emerged as significant predictors of favourable EET outcomes. Overall, this study highlights that early life course trajectories and the process of status attainment within the family are shaped by a complex interaction of family circumstances and individual experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47126,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Life Course Research","volume":"63 ","pages":"Article 100652"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142795878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Parenthood, gender, and turning points to crime for young people in Latin America 拉丁美洲年轻人的亲子关系、性别和犯罪转折点。

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100657

Martín Hernán Di Marco , Sveinung Sandberg , Gustavo Fondevila

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