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The Impact of Work and Family Careers on Life Outcomes in Late Adulthood
Rob Warren, Ph.D, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
| What | MPC Seminar Series |
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October 29, 2007 12:15 PM
October 29, 2007 01:15 PM
October 29, 2007 from 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm |
| Where | MPC Seminar Room |
| Contact Email | mpc@umn.edu |
| Contact Phone | 612-624-8806 |
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ABSTRACT: Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we investigate the extent to which work and family trajectories across the life course affect physical and mental health and financial well-being in later adulthood either directly or through their effects on more proximate predictors of these outcomes. To what extent are health and financial well-being among older adults affected by individuals’ contemporaneous work, family, and other circumstances, and to what extent are such outcomes due to life-course patterns of experiences in the family and the labor market? Our work is fundamentally concerned with understanding the determinants of the well-being of older Americans in an era of changing social, economic, and policy contexts. We use both simple categorization and latent growth curve modeling techniques to characterize the trajectories of family circumstances and transitions from birth through age 70 and trajectories of labor force experiences and exposures from age 35 through age 70. We then estimate the impact of these work and family trajectories on health, financial well-being, and changes in these outcomes in later adulthood before and after controlling for more proximate influences on these outcomes.
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