The transition to adulthood has become a thriving area of research in life course studies.
This review is organized around two of the field's emerging themes. The first theme is the …

THE LEVEL of the nation's investment in children is enormous. Government expenditures on
elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schooling alone totaled about $372 billion in …

In textbooks and courses in statistics, substantive and measurement issues are rarely, if at
all, considered. Similarly, textbooks and courses in measurement virtually ignore design and …

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking
and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development …

We review more than three decades of empirical research pertaining to the hypothesized
influence of parent-preschooler reading experiences on the development of language and …

1970 年以来, 中国的生育率持续下降, 在家庭层面上表现为兄弟姐妹数的减少,
同时也影响了兄弟姐妹的构成, 进而影响家庭对子女教育的投资以及性别间的教育差异. 对2006 …

The children born since the end of the postwar baby boom are the first in American history to
come primarily from small families—families of three or fewer children. Judith Blake calls this …

How successfully children adapt to the routine of schooling in the first grade or two likely has
long-term implications for their cognitive and affective development. This study aims to …

We investigate the childhood and adolescent predictors of youth unemployment in a
longitudinal study of young adults who have been studied for the 21 years since their births …

Educational sociologists have paid relatively little attention to children in middle childhood
(ages 6 to 12), whereas developmental psychologists have emphasized factors internal to …