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Title: Growing Up Golden

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2008

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8541-3_4

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Abstract: Unfolding choices steer each of us down different life paths as we grow up. For people in the United States in the past century, these paths varied by generation as well as depending on many other features of people’s backgrounds. For example, Chapter 3 showed that different generations had very different experiences with schooling. Each generation got more formal education than the generation before them, with Lucky Few men making the largest leap forward in schooling of any group in the twentieth century. This chapter connects those decisions about school with the next major steps that people take out into society – the quest for a job, choosing whether and when to marry, and perhaps deciding the timing of a first birth and parenthood of the next generation.

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4020-8541-3_4

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Authors: Carlson, Elwood

Editors: Carlson, Elwood

Pages: 51-67

Volume Title: The Lucky Few

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

Publisher Location: Dordrecht

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Topics: Family and Marriage, Other

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