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Relation of income to trends in well-being by age: implications for the future older “forgotten” lower middle class Open

David H. Rehkopf, Frank F. Furstenberg, Christian Jackson, John W. Rowe, John W. Rowe , et al. · 2025

The structure of social welfare policy has neglected a growing and increasingly economically marginalized segment of the American population—the lower middle class, a large group who are ineligible for many need-based social services. We e…

A global analysis of adaptation to societal aging across low-, middle- and high-income countries using the Global Aging Society Index Open

Cynthia Chen, Julian Lim, Jemima Koh, John Beard, John W. Rowe , et al. · 2024

We have previously presented a multidimensional Aging Society Index, a weighted summation of five domains central to successful adaptation to societal aging: well-being, productivity and engagement, equity, cohesion and security, as a tool…

EVIDENCE THAT TOMORROW’S OLDER POPULATION WILL BE LESS FIT THAN TODAY: A NATIONAL STUDY, 2003–2022 Open

David H. Rehkopf, Frank F. Furstenberg, Christian Jackson, John W. Rowe · 2024

Entering retirement age with a high level of health, well-being, and functioning is critical for remaining healthy and engaged after retirement and into later life. While recent stagnating trends for mortality have been well documented in …

Union formation, within‐couple dynamics, and child well‐being: A global macrolevel perspective Open

Ewa Batyra, Luca Maria Pesando, Andrés F. Castro Torres, Frank F. Furstenberg, Hans‐Peter Kohler · 2023

Studies on global changes in families have greatly increased over the past decade, adopting both a country‐specific and, more recently, a cross‐national comparative perspective. While most studies are focused on the drivers of global chang…

Communication with Kin in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic Open

Megan N. Reed, Linda Li, Luca Maria Pesando, Lauren E. Harris, Frank F. Furstenberg , et al. · 2023

This study investigates patterns of communication among non-coresident kin in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the New York City Robin Hood Poverty Tracker. Over half of New Yorkers spoke to their non-coresident famil…

A US State Index of Successful Aging: Differences Between States and Over Time Open

David H. Rehkopf, Frank F. Furstenberg, Holly Elser, Christian Jackson, Nicole Levy , et al. · 2021

Policy Points The focus of successful aging is on the social contexts that enable individuals to be productively engaged and secure, with an emphasis on equity. There is currently no index to measure progress towards this goal at the US st…

Family change and variation through the lens of <i>family configurations</i> in low‐ and middle‐income countries Open

Andrés F. Castro Torres, Luca Maria Pesando, Hans‐Peter Kohler, Frank F. Furstenberg · 2021

Using 254 Demographic and Health Surveys from 75 low‐ and middle‐income countries, this study shows how the joint examination of family characteristics across rural and urban areas provides new insights for understanding global family chan…

Gender differences in countries' adaptation to societal ageing: an international cross-sectional comparison Open

Cynthia Chen, Kenwin Maung, John W. Rowe, John W. Rowe, Toni C. Antonucci , et al. · 2021

A Sequence‐Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries Open

Luca Maria Pesando, Nicola Barban, Maria Sironi, Frank F. Furstenberg · 2021

This study investigates whether young people in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) have experienced processes of destandardization of the life course similar to those observed in high‐income societies. We provide two contributions to…

Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of First Union Formation and Sexual Initiation in Sub‐Saharan Africa Open

Ewa Batyra, Hans‐Peter Kohler, Frank F. Furstenberg · 2021

Gender differences in union formation and sexual initiation in sub‐Saharan Africa remain poorly documented, in large part due to a scarcity of research on the transition to adulthood among men. We adopt a novel perspective on this topic by…

Family Change and Family Diversity Open

Frank F. Furstenberg · 2021

Future historians of the family will undoubtedly look upon the final decades of the twentieth century as a time of upheaval, when a major shift occurred in the form and function of the Western family. During the last third of the century, …

How Families Give and Receive: A Cross-Class Qualitative Study of Familial Exchange Open

Laura Napolitano, Frank F. Furstenberg, Karen L. Fingerman · 2020

Support of family members has been a long-standing interest of social scientists. Contemporary American families must provide support to members in a historical context wherein family inequality continues to rise. Based on the life course …

Kinship Practices Among Alternative Family Forms in Western Industrialized Societies Open

Frank F. Furstenberg, Lauren E. Harris, Luca Maria Pesando, Megan N. Reed · 2020

Objective This article discusses how kinship is construed and enacted in diverse forms of the family that are now part of the culturally pluralistic family system of Western societies. Background This study is the second in a pair document…

Kinship Reconsidered: Research on a Neglected Topic Open

Frank F. Furstenberg · 2020

This article reviews the recent history of kinship research, noting the relative neglect of the topic in recent decades. The lack of scholarly and empirical work on kinship has been hampered by both the absence of survey and qualitative re…

Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of Partnership Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa Open

Ewa Batyra, Hans‐Peter Kohler, Frank F. Furstenberg · 2020

Due to scarcity of research about men, gender differences in transition to adulthood in Sub-Saharan Africa remain poorly documented. We adopt a novel perspective on this topic by examining gender gaps in the ages of first union and sex in …

Preface to the Second Edition Open

Michael Bader, Harry Brighouse, Jessica McCrory Calarco, Dalton Conley, Maia Cucchiara , et al. · 2019

Since Unequal Childhoods was published, the children in the book have passed through childhood and adolescence into adulthood.At the end of the study, I had wanted to know how the lives of these children would unfold.I was particularly int…

Acknowledgments Open

Jah Anderson, Lawrence W. Sherman, David Bayley, Hans Toch, Michael R. Katz , et al. · 2019

Trends in Mental and Physical Health-Related Quality of Life in Low-Income Older Persons in the United States, 2003 to 2017 Open

David H. Rehkopf, Frank F. Furstenberg, John W. Rowe · 2019

This cross-sectional study of respondents to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey assesses trends between 2003 and 2017 in mental and physical health-related quality of life in low-income US individuals 60 years or older.

After the Burden Is Lifted: Caregivers' Recovery of Life Satisfaction After the Death or Recovery of a Spouse Open

Laura Antonia Langner, Frank F. Furstenberg · 2019

Objective How does caregivers' life satisfaction shift upon the recovery of an ill spouse? Paradoxically, there is a greater increase in life satisfaction upon death than recovery of a spouse. Our analysis explores this paradox. Method We …

Who Initiates the Help Older Parents Give to Midlife Children Open

Meng Huo, Laura Napolitano, Frank F. Furstenberg, Karen L. Fingerman · 2019

Objectives Older parents continue to help children after these children have been adults for decades. We utilize a typology approach to assess who initiates the help. We ask whether profiles of help initiation are associated with how often…

Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change Open

Frank F. Furstenberg · 2019

Changes in family systems that have occurred over the past half century throughout the Western world are now spreading across the globe to nations that are experiencing economic development, technological change, and shifts in cultural bel…

Measuring the Adaptation of Countries to Societal Aging Open

Dana P. Goldman, Cynthia Chen, Julie Zissimopoulos, Toni C. Antonucci, Axel Börsch‐Supan , et al. · 2019

AGING ACROSS THE STATES Open

David H. Rehkopf, Frank F. Furstenberg, John W. Rowe · 2018

Late life age-specific mortality rates vary considerably across individual States in the U.S. In addition, States are acquiring additional flexibility regarding the establishment of policies and programs that are directly relevant to the s…

Multidimensional comparison of countries’ adaptation to societal aging Open

Cynthia Chen, Dana P. Goldman, Julie Zissimopoulos, John W. Rowe, Toni C. Antonucci , et al. · 2018

Significance The proportion of older adults in the population is growing rapidly across the globe. This demographic transformation into “aging societies” presents very consequential economic and social risks. Countries vary substantially i…

Measuring how countries adapt to societal aging Open

Dana P. Goldman, Cynthia Chen, Julie Zissimopoulos, John W. Rowe, John W. Rowe , et al. · 2018

Across the developed world, large increases in life expectancy over the past century, often coupled with decreasing fertility rates, have created older, top-heavy societies. The United Nations projects that by 2050 the world population of …

American Kinship Reconsidered Open

Frank F. Furstenberg · 2018

Across the Western world and in other nations with advanced economies, a remarkable transformation in family systems took place during the final third of the 20th century. The institution of marriage, once nearly hegemonic, lost its nearly…

Inequalities in the use of time by teenagers and young adults Open

Anne H. Gauthier, Frank F. Furstenberg · 2017

Reconsidering Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood Open

Frank F. Furstenberg · 2016

This paper looks back at the findings reported in Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Parenthood, a decade after its publication in light of recent research. Increasingly, the most methodologically sophisticated researc…

The changing American family: an overview from 1965 to 2015 Open

Frank F. Furstenberg · 2016

“I'll Give You the World”: Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children Open

Karen L. Fingerman, Kyungmin Kim, Eden M. Davis, Frank F. Furstenberg, Kira S. Birditt , et al. · 2015

Research has shown that parents with higher socioeconomic status provide more resources to their children during childhood and adolescence. The authors asked whether similar effects associated with parental socioeconomic position are exten…

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