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Source: Chinese Journal of Sociology
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Fulda, Barbara E. Nauck, Bernhard Ren, Qiang |
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The Transition to Adulthood in China, Germany and the US: Prevalence and Timing in Private and Professional Life Chinese Journal of Sociology 5,2 (2019): 193-213. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057150X19838728 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Age at First Marriage; China Family Panel Studies; Cross-national Analysis; German Family Survey; Residence, Return to Parental Home/Delayed Homeleaving; Rural/Urban Differences; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We explore cross-country differences in the transition to adulthood between China, Germany, and the USA. Using large-scale panel studies, we examine the timing of leaving the parental home, first marriage and first parenthood. For those born between 1933 and 1988, we observe a delay in the timing of first marriage in all three societies. But the delay is steeper in the USA than in Germany and China. The age at first childbirth is increasing in all three countries. By age 30, most individuals in China have married their first partner and become parents, whereas in the USA and Germany less than half of the population have experienced one of these events. There are large differences in educational and employment trajectories between the urban and rural populations in China, less so in the USA, whereas almost no differences are observed in Germany. The three countries are alike in the proportion of individuals who have left the parental home by age 30. In all three countries, individuals without tertiary qualifications are more likely to have experienced all three events by age 30. But with regard to first marriage, a larger share of higher-educated individuals get married by the age of 30 in the USA, whereas in China it is the less educated who are more likely to get married. |
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Fulda, Barbara E., Bernhard Nauck and Qiang Ren. "The Transition to Adulthood in China, Germany and the US: Prevalence and Timing in Private and Professional Life." Chinese Journal of Sociology 5,2 (2019): 193-213.
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Nauck, Bernhard Ren, Qiang |
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Coresidence with Kin and Subjective Well-being in the Transition to Adulthood: A Comparison of the United States, Germany, Japan and China Chinese Journal of Sociology 7,1 (January 2021): 22-47. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057150X20984864 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): China Family Panel Studies; Coresidence; Gender Differences; Germany, German; Household Composition; Japan; Japanese; Kinship; Transition, Adulthood; Well-Being Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although residence patterns during the transition to adulthood are dynamic and have a high influence on subjective well-being, empirical studies are scarce, especially with regard to international comparisons. The way living arrangements during the transition to adulthood are normatively framed in bilinear, neolocal kinship cultures are very different from the way they are framed in patrilineal, patrilocal cultures. Thus, living arrangements such as living alone, living with parents and especially living with in-laws should correspond to varying levels of well-being depending on the culture. Based on panel data (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - NLSY97, German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics, Japanese Life Course Panel Survey and China Family Panel Studies), we analyzed the levels of subjective well-being of young adults aged 20-35 in households of varying family composition across cultures and over time. Differences between patrilineal, patrilocal kinship systems in Japan and China and bilineal, neolocal kinship systems in Germany and the United States became evident in lower levels of subjective well-being of young adults in China and Japan than in Germany and the United States, when living alone or in single-parent families. Germany and the United States were similar in their strong gender differences in subjective well-being, with young women showing a much lower level than men, but differed with regard to the variation by coresidence type, which was higher in the United States than in Germany. Gender differences in Japan and China were related to living in extended households, which resulted in very low levels of subjective well-being for young women, whereas the impact was small in China. Despite the differences in kinship systems, institutional regulations, and opportunity structures, living in a nuclear family of procreation was associated with the highest level of subjective well-being for young men and women in all four c ountries. |
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Bibliography Citation
Nauck, Bernhard and Qiang Ren. "Coresidence with Kin and Subjective Well-being in the Transition to Adulthood: A Comparison of the United States, Germany, Japan and China." Chinese Journal of Sociology 7,1 (January 2021): 22-47.
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