Index (by author) of working papers, policy briefs,
and general publications on this site.
NEW! Wightman, Patrick, Robert Schoeni, and Keith Robinson, Familial Financial Assistance among Young Adults [pdf] (May 2012)
Barrow, Lisa, and Cecilia Elena Rouse, Does College Still Pay? (2005) The Economists’ Voice
Bell, Lisa Gary Burtless, Janet Gornick, and Timothy Smeeding, Failure to Launch or Launching Too Soon? Poverty and Leaving the Parental Nest in Europe and North America [brief]
Bell, Lisa, Gary Burtless, Janet Gornick, and Timothy M. Smeeding, A Cross-National Survey of Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence (May 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence)
Benson, Janel, and Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Subjective Perceptions of Adulthood among Urban Youth: Are Demographic Transitions Still Relevant? (March 2003) [PDF]
Bloom, Dan, Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners: Early Impacts from a Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Bloom, Dan, and Colleen Sommo, Building Learning Communities: Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration at Kingsborough Community College (June 2005, MDRC)
Blum, Robert, Patience Haydock White, and Leslie Gallay, Moving into Adulthood for Youth with Disabilities and Serious Health Concerns (July 2006) [PDF]
Borgen, Linda, and Ruben G. Rumbaut, Coming of Age in “America’s Finest City’”: Transitions to Adulthood among Children of Immigrants in San Diego (June 2005) [PDF]
Brock, Thomas, and Allen LeBlanc Promoting Student Success in Community College and Beyond (June 2005, MDRC)
Brock, Thomas et al. Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship for Low-Income Parents. (2009, MDRC).
Carr, Patrick, and Maria Kefalas, Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa (September 2006) [PDF ]
Chiteji, Ngina S. To Have and To Hold: An Analysis of Young Adult Debt (September 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence)
Chiteji, Ngina S., To Have and to Hold: An Analysis of Young Adult Debt (September 2006) [brief]
Chung, He Len, Michelle Little, Laurence Steinberg, and David Altschuler, Juvenile Justice and the Transition to Adulthood(February 2006) [PDF]
Conference Report: Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood: Rethinking Public Policy for a New Century (February 2005) [PDF]
Corcoran, Mary, and Jordan Matsudaira, Is It Getting Harder to Get Ahead? (October 2004) [PDF]
Courtney, Mark, Youth Aging Out of Foster Care (April 2006) [PDF]
Danziger, Sheldon, and Cecilia Rouse, editors, The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood [book]
Danziger, Sheldon, Data Brief: Earnings by Education for Young Workers, 1975 & 2002 (November 2004) [PDF]
Danziger, Sheldon, and Jane Waldfogel, editors, Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College (June 2000)
Danziger, Sheldon, and Patrick Wightman, “Poverty, Intergenerational Mobility, and Educational Attainment“ (June 2011)
Farber, Henry S., Is the Company Man an Anachronism? Trends in Long Term Employment in the U.S. between 1973 and 2005[PDF] [brief]
Farber, Henry, Is the Company Man an Anachronism? Trends in Long Term Employment, 1973-2005 (May 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [View PDF
Feliciano, Cynthia, and Ruben Rumbaut, Gendered paths: Educational and occupational expectations and outcomes among adult children of immigrants, Racial and Ethnic Studies 2005.
Finlay, Andrea, Constance Flanagan, and Sarah Black, Service as a Development Opportunity (May 2007)
Fitzpatrick, Maria D., and Sarah E. Turner, Blurring the Boundary: Changes in the Transition from College Participation to Adulthood (May 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [View PDF]
Fitzpatrick, Maria D., and Sarah E. Turner, The Changing College Experience for Young Adults (September 2006) [PDF] [brief]
Flanagan, Constance, and Matthew Bundick, Civic Engagement and Psychosocial Well-Being in College Students (2011)
Flanagan, Constance, et al., Green Youth? An Inconvenient Truth (September 2009) [brief]
Flanagan, Constance, et al., Generations and Politics: Thirty-Year Trends in Youths’ Civic Interest and Engagement (September 2009) [brief]
Flanagan, Constance, et al., Young People’s Changing Meaning of Work (September 2009) [brief]
Flanagan, Constance, The Changing Social Contract at the Transition to Adulthood: Implications for Individuals and the Polity(March 2006) [PDF ]
Flanagan, Constance, Developmental Roots of Political Engagement (October 2006) [PDF ]
Flanagan, Constance, Private Anxieties and Public Hopes: The Perils and Promise of Youth in the Context of Globalization(2007)
Flanagan, Constance, Public Scholarship and Youth at the Transition to Adulthood (2006)
Flanagan, Constance, Young People’s Civic Engagement and Political Development (2008)
Flanagan, Constance, Cumsille, Gill, and Gallay, School and Community Climates and Civic Commitments: Patterns for Ethnic Minority and Majority Students (2007)
Flanagan, Constance, Andrea K. Finlay, and Sarah Black, Service as a Developmental Opportunity: Building Connections for Vulnerable Youths (2007)
Flanagan, Constance, and Carmen Hamilton, Activist Program: Reframing Social Responsibility Within a Technology-Based Youth (2007)
Flanagan, Constance, and Ron Kassimir, editors, Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia (2005)
Flanagan, Constance, and D. Wayne Osgood, A Snapshot of American High Four Decades: 1976, 1985, 1994, and 2001 (June 2006) [View PDF]
Flanagan, Constance, E. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, and Gretchen R. Ruth, On Your Own without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations. [book]
Flanagan, Constance, Wayne, E. Osgood, E. Michael Foster, and Gretchen Ruth, Programs and Policy Goals for Helping Vulnerable Youth as They Move into Adulthood (February 2006) [PDF]
Flanagan, Constance, Wayne, E. Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Gretchen R. Ruth, Why Focus on the Transition to Adulthood For Vulnerable Populations? (April 2004)
Flanagan, Constance, and Roderick J. Watts, Pushing the Envelope on Youth Civic Engagement: A Developmental and Liberation Psychology Perspective ( 2007)
Constance Flanagan, Laura Wray-Lake, and Amy Syvertsten, Youth Political Activism: Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization (2007)
Foster, E. Michael, and Elizabeth J. Gifford, Challenges in the Transition to Adulthood for Youth in Foster Care, Juvenile Justice, and Special Education (October 2004) [PDF]
Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr., Diverging Development: The Not-so-Invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States (May 2006) [View PDF]
Furstenberg, Frank, Growing Up Healthy: Are Adolescents the Right Target Group? ( editorial published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, 2006),
Furstenberg, Frank Jr., and Janel Benson, Subjective Perceptions of Adulthood among Urban Youth: Are Demographic Transitions Still Relevant? (March 2003) [View PDF]
Fussell, Elizabeth and Ann Gauthier, Women Moving into Adulthood: An International Comparison (October 2004) PDF]
Furstenberg, Frank, Maria Kefalas, and Laura Napolitano, Marriage is More than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage among Young Adults in the United States (September 2005) [View PDF]
Frank Furstenberg, Growing Up Healthy: Are Adolescents the Right Target Group? ( editorial published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, 2006)
Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Rubén G. Rumbaut and Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Growing Up Is Harder to Do (2004) Contexts, vol 3, no. 3, 2004
Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie C. McCloyd, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Between Adolescence and Adulthood: Expectations about the Timing of Adulthood (July 2003) [View PDF]
Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr., Rubén G. Rumbaut, and Richard A. Settersten, Jr. On the Frontier of Adulthood: Emerging Themes and New Directions (October 2004) [PDF]
Fussell, Elizabeth Fussell, and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. The Changing Nature of Young Adulthood throughout the Century(October2004) [PDF]
Gardenhire-Crooks, Alissa, Herbert Collado, and Barbara Ray, A Whole ‘Notehr World: Students Navigating Community College
Gauthier, Anne H., and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Changing Patterns of Time Use among Young Adults (October 2004) [PDF]
Gralinski-Bakker, J. Heidi, Stuart Hauser, Rebecca Billings, and Joseph Allen; Phillip Grossman, J. B., & Rhodes, J. E., The Test of Time: Predictors and effects of duration in youth mentoring programs. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 199-206. (2002). [View PDF]
Guldi, Melanie, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens, The Effects of Family Background on Young Adult Children’s Success(September 2006) [PDF]
Guldi, Melanie, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens, Family Background and Children’s Transitions to Adulthood over Time(May 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [View PDF]
Hagan, John, and Bill McCarthy, Homeless Youth and the Perilous Passage to Adulthood (April 2006) [PDF]
Hamilton, Stephen, and Mary Agnes Hamilton The Transition to Adulthood: Challenges of Poverty and Structural Lag
Haydock-White, Patience, and Leslie Gallay, Primer on Health Care Access for Young Adults with Disabilities (April 2006) [PDF]
Hartmann, Douglas, and Teresa Toguchi Swartz, The New Adulthood? The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults (March 2006) [ View PDF]
Hernandez, Debra M., Jozefowicz-Simbeni, Brian Madden, and Nathaniel Israel, Michigan: Making Their Way—Regret, Hope, and Identity Pursuits in Motor City [PDF]
Hill, Carolyn J., and Harry J. Holzer, Labor Market Experiences and the Transition to Adulthood (May 2006)
(commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [PDF]
Hill, Carolyn, and Harry Holzer, Labor Market Experiences and the Transition to Adulthood (September 2006) [PDF] [brief]
Holdaway, Jennifer, Growing Up in the Big City: The Transitions to Adulthood in New York (June 2005) [PDF]
Hughes, Mary Elizabeth, What Money Can Buy: The Relationship between Marriage and Home Ownership in the United States(2005) [PDF]
Kasinitz, Philip, John Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation(2004)
Kasinitz, Philip, John Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, Jennifer Holdaway, Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: The Second Generation in a Majority Minority City (October 2006)
Kefalas, Maria, and Patrick Carr, Straight from the Heartland: Coming of Age in Ellis, Iowa (September 2006) [PDF ]
Kefalas, Maria, Frank Furstenberg, and Laura Napolitano, Marriage is More than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage among Young Adults in the United States (September 2005) [ PDF]
Klaw, E. L., Rhodes, J. E., & Fitzgerald, L. L., Natural mentors in the lives of African-American adolescent mothers: Tracking relationships over time. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 32, 223-232. (2003). [PDF]
Langhout, R. D., Rhodes, J. E., & Osborne, L., An exploratory study of youth mentoring in an urban context: Adolescents’ perceptions of relationship styles. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. (293-306). (2004). [PDF]
Levine, Peter, The Civic Engagement of Young Americans: Why Does It Matter? (2008)
Levine, Phyllis, and Mary Wagner, The Transition to Adulthood for the Special Education Population (July 2006) [PDF]
Levy, Helen, Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [PDF]
Levy, Helen, Young Adults Increasingly Lack Health Insurance [PDF] [brief]
Lyons, Jr., and Gary Melton Transitioning to Adulthood for Young Adults with Mental Health Issues (July 2006) [PDF]
Matsudaira, Jordan D., Economic Conditions and the Living Arrangements of Young Adults (May 2006) [PDF]
Matus-Grossman, Lisa, and Susan Gooden Students’ Perspectives on Juggling Work, Family, and College (July 2002)
McCloyd, Vonnie, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Between Adolescence and Adulthood: Expectations about the Timing of Adulthood (July 2003) [ PDF]
McLoyd, Vonnie C., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Rubén G. Rumbaut and Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Growing Up Is Harder to Do (2004) Contexts, vol 3, no. 3, 2004
MDRC Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents (MDRC, 2009)
MDRC, Getting Back on Track: Effects of a Community College Program for Probationary Students. 2009.
MDRC, A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
MDRC, Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio (Opening Doors project) (2007)
MDRC, Enhancing Student Services at Lorain County Community College (Opening Doors project) (2007)
MDRC, Enhancing Student Services at Owens Community College (Opening Doors project) (2007)
MDRC, Whole ’Nother World: Students Navigating Community College (Opening Doors project) (2006)
Mollenkopf, John Mary C. Waters, Jennifer Holdaway, and Philip Kasinitz, The Dynamics of Assimilation (October 2004) [PDF]
Mouw, Ted, The Effect of Timing and Sequence of Choices on Young Adults’ Futures (October 2004) [PDF]
Mullan Harris, Kathleen et al., Youth During the Transition to Adulthood Face Increasing Health Risk and Less Access to Health Care
Newman, Katherine, and Sofya Aptekar, Sticking Around: Delayed Departure from the Parental Nest in Western Europe (August 2006) [PDF] [brief]
Newman, Katherine, and Sofya Aptekar, Sticking Around: Delayed Departure from the Parental Nest in Western Europe (May 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [View PDF]
Osgood, D. Wayne Osgood, et al., Green Youth? An Inconvenient Truth (September 2009) [brief]
Osgood, D. Wayne Osgood, et al., Generations and Politics: Thirty-Year Trends in Youths’ Civic Interest and Engagement(September 2009) [brief]
Osgood, D. Wayne Osgood, et al., Young People’s Changing Meaning of Work (September 2009) [brief]
Osgood, D. Wayne Osgood,and Constance Flanagan, A Snapshot of American High Four Decades: 1976, 1985, 1994, and 2001(June 2006) [View PDF]
Osgood, Wayne, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen R. Ruth, On Your Own without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations. [book]
Osgood, D. Wayne , Gretchen Ruth, Jacquelynne Eccles, Janis Jacobs, and Bonnie Barber, The Role of Social Class and Early Outlooks in Positive Transitions to Adulthood (October 2004) [PDF]
Osgood, D. Wayne, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen Ruth, Programs and Policy Goals for Helping Vulnerable Youth as They Move into Adulthood (February 2006) [PDF]
Portes, Alejandro, and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Growing Up American: The New Second Generation (October 2006) [PDF]
Portes, Alejandro, and Rumbaut, Rubén G., Introduction: The Second Generation and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (Nov 2005)
Raphael, Steven, Early Incarceration Spells and the Transition to Adulthood (September 2006) [PDF] [brief]
Raphael, Steven, Early Incarceration Spells and the Transition to Adulthood (May 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [ PDF]
Rhodes, J. E., L. Fitzgerald, and E. L. Klaw, Natural mentors in the lives of African-American adolescent mothers: Tracking relationships over time. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 32, 223-232. (2003). [PDF]
Rhodes, J. E., L. Osborne, and R. D. Langhout, An exploratory study of youth mentoring in an urban context: Adolescents’ perceptions of relationship styles. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. (293-306). (2004). [PDF]
Rhodes, J. E., and J. B. Grossman, The test of time: Predictors and effects of duration in youth mentoring programs. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 199-206. (2002). [PDF]
Rhodes, Jean E., and David L. DuBois. (2006). Understanding and Facilitating the Youth Mentoring Movement. Social Policy Report. 20 (3), 3-19. [PDF]
Rhodes, Jean E., Reddy, R., & Grossman, J. B. The protective influence of mentoring on adolescents’ substance use: Direct and indirect pathways. Applied Developmental Science. 9 (1), 31–47. (2005). [PDF]
Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn, Tom Brock, Cecilia Elena Rouse, et al, Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents (MDRC, 2009)
Rothstein, Jesse, and Cecilia Rouse, Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices (May 2007) [PDF]
Rouse, Cecilia, and Sheldon Danziger, editors, The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood [book]
Rouse, Cecilia, and Lisa Barrow, Does College Still Pay? (2005)
Rouse, Cecilia, and Jesse Rothstein, Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices (May 2007)
Rouse, Cecilia, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes et al, Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents (MDRC, 2009)
Rumbaut, Rubén G., Reaping What You Sow: Immigration, Youth, and Reactive Ethnicity (2008)
Rumbaut, Rubén G., and Alejandro Portes, Introduction: The Second Generation and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (Nov 2005)
Rumbaut, Rubén G., and Golnaz Komaie, Demographic Profile of Young Adults in the United States, 2006 (October 2007)
Rumbaut, Rubén G., Young Adults in the United States: A Profile (March 2004) [PDF]
Rumbaut, Rubén G.,Turning points in the transition to adulthood: Determinants ofeducational attainment, incarceration, and early childbearing among children of immigrants, Racial and Ethnic Studies 2005.
Rumbaut, Rubén G., and Linda Borgen, Coming of Age in “America’s Finest City’”: Transitions to Adulthood among Children of Immigrants in San Diego (June 2005) [view PDF]
Rumbaut, Rubén G. and Cynthia Feliciano, Gendered paths: Educational and occupational expectations and outcomes among adult children of immigrants, Racial and Ethnic Studies 2005.
Rumbaut, Rubén G., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie C. McLoyd, and Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Growing Up Is Harder to Do (2004) Contexts, vol 3, no. 3, 2004
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Richard A. Settersten, Jr. On the Frontier of Adulthood: Emerging Themes and New Directions (October 2004) [PDF]
Rumbaut, Rubén G., Golnaz Komaie, and Charlie V. Morgan, Demographic Profile of Young Adults in the Five Cities (May 2007) [PDF]
Rumbaut, Ruben, Douglass Massey, and Frank Bean, Population And Development Review, Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern California (September 2006)
Rumbaut, Rubén G., and Alejandro Portes, Growing Up American: The New Second Generation (October 2006) [PDF]
Rumbaut, Ruben G., and Alejandro Portes, The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: New Findings from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (October 2006)
Rumbaut, Ruben, et al. Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment Among First- and Second-Generation Young Men
(June 2006)
Sandefur, Gary Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck, and Hyunjoon Park, Higher Education versus Single Motherhood (October 2004) [PDF]
Schoeni, Robert, and Karen Ross, Family Support during the Transition to Adulthood (October 2004) [PDF]
Schulenberg, John, Patrick O’Malley, Jerald Bachman, and Lloyd Johnston, Paths into Adulthood, Well-being, and Substance Use(October 2004), [PDF]
Scrivener, Susan, et al., Getting Back on Track: Effects of a Community College Program for Probationary Students (MDRC, 2009)
Scrivener, Susan, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Colleen Sommo, A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
Scrivener, Susan, and Jenny Au, Enhancing Student Services at Lorain County Community College: Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio (2007)
Scrivener, Susan, and Michael Pih, Enhancing Student Services at Owens Community College: Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio (2007)
Settersten, Richard A., Jr., Social Policy and the Transition to Adulthood (October 2004) [PDF]
Settersten, Richard A., Jr., Becoming Adult: Meanings and Markers for Young Americans (March 2006) [PDF]
Settersten, Richard A., Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Rubén G. Rumbaut, On the Frontiers of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy [book]
Settersten, Richard A. Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Growing Up Is Harder to Do (2004) Contexts, vol 3, no. 3, 2004
Settersten, Richard A., Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie McCloyd, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Between Adolescence and Adulthood: Expectations about the Timing of Adulthood (July 2003) [PDF]
Shanahan, Michael, Erik Porfeli, and Jeylan Mortimer, What Marks Adulthood—Subjective Identity or Demographic Markers?(October 2004) [PDF]
Smith, Tom W., The Generation Gap Revisited (October 2004) [PDF] T
Uggen, Christopher, Sara Wakefield, Jeremy Travis, and Christy Visher, Weaving Young Ex-Offenders Back into the Fabric of Society (February 2006) [PDF]
Waters, Mary, Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, Jennifer Holdaway, Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: The Second Generation in a Majority Minority City (October 2006)
Mary Water, The Challenge of Studying Civic Incorporation (2008 )
Wightman, Patrick, Robert Schoeni, and Keith Robinson, Familial Financial Assistance among Young Adults [pdf] (May 2012)
Wightman, Patrick, and Sheldon Danziger, “Poverty, Intergenerational Mobility, and Educational Attainment“ (June 2011)
Wu, Lawrence L., and Jui-Chung Allen Li, Modern” Family Paths Not So New After All (October 2004) [PDF]
Yelowitz, Aaron, Young Adults Leaving the Nest: The Role of Cost-of-Living (May 2006) (commissioned for Network book, The Price of Independence) [PDF ]
Yelowitz, Aaron, Young Adults Leaving the Nest: The Role of Housing and Transportation Costs (September 2006) [PDF] [brief]
Youth Development Institute, Building a Better Bridge