EAN: 9783030673475

SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC LIFE COUR...

This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult
demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in
particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for
adult outcomes differ across societies  and whether these differences are shaped by the context
of opportunities that societies offer to diminish the adverse impact of economic and social
deprivation. The book integrates a longitudinal approach and provides new insights in how the
experience of childhood disadvantage (e.g. low parental socio-economic status  family
disruption) influences demographic decisions in adulthood (e.g. the timing of family-events
such as cohabitation  marriage or parenthood  the risk of divorce or having a child outside a
partner relationship  the exposure to later-life loneliness  poor health  and economic
adversity). Moreover  using a cross-national comparative perspective it investigates whether
the relationships of interest differ across nations  and tests the context of opportunities
hypothesis arguing that the links between childhood disadvantage and adult outcomes are
weakened in societal contexts offering good opportunities for people to escape situations of
deprivation. To do so  the book analyzes national contexts based on economic prosperity  family
values and norms  and welfare-state arrangements.

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