Beyond Transmission: Intergenerational Patterns of Family Formation Among Middle-Class American Families

Demography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1703-1728

  Fasang, Anette Eva ^a,b   Raab, Marcel ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demographic trajectories; Family formation; Intergenerational transmission; Parent child dyads; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84909990084     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0322-9     Document Type: Article

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