Nearly 35 years ago, Sampson and Laub popularized the concept of desistance from crime
and isolated core factors that promote and inhibit this process. In this article, we introduce …

Over the last two decades, the share of US children under age 18 who live in a
multigenerational household (with a grandparent and parent) has increased dramatically …

Demographers have long attempted to project future changes in the size and composition of
populations, but have ignored what these processes will mean for the size, composition, and …

Generational overlap affects the care time demands on parents and grandparents
worldwide. Here, we present the first global estimates of the experience of simultaneously …

Most intergenerational mobility studies rely on either snapshot or time-averaged measures
of earnings, but have yet to examine resemblance of earnings trajectories over the life …

Kinship relations play a crucial role in structuring populations and shaping individual
outcomes. Differences in kinship among individuals, cohorts, and subpopulations are one …

Most social mobility studies take a two-generation perspective, in which intergenerational
relationships are represented by the association between parents' and offspring's …

BACKGROUND Recent kinship models focus on the age structures of kin as a function of the
age of the focal individual. However, variables in addition to age have important impacts …

Most studies on unemployment have assessed its individual-level costs. However, beyond
its effects on individuals, unemployment incurs costs for their immediate families and …

BACKGROUND The loss of kin by death has medical, psychological, and social effects on
other members of a kinship network. Recent formal demographic models can account for …