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Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences

Couch, Kenneth A., Daly, Mary C., Zissimopoulos, Julie M.

2013,2020,2014

Overview

In Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health, editors Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie Zissimopoulos bring together leading scholars to study the impact of unexpected life course events on economic welfare. The contributions in this volume explore how job loss, the onset of health limitations, and changes in household structure can have a pronounced influence on individual and household well-being across the life course. Although these events are typically studied in isolation, they frequently co-occur or are otherwise interrelated. This book provides a systematic empirical overview of these sometimes uncertain events and their impact. By placing them in a unified analytical framework and approaching each of them from a similar perspective, Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences illustrates the importance of a coherent approach to thinking about the inter-relationships among these shifts. Finally, this volume aims to set the future research agenda in this important area.

• Publisher: Stanford University Press,Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press,Stanford Economics and Finance
• Subject: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics / Cost and standard of living / Cost and standard of living -- United States / disability / displacement / divorce / Economic aspects / Economic conditions / Economics / family / health limitation / job loss / Life change events / Life change events -- Economic aspects -- United States / life course / lifecycle / subjective well-being / United States / United States -- Economic conditions / Wealth / Wealth -- United States / Well-being / Well-being -- United States
• ISBN: 9780804785853, 0804785856, 0804786437, 9780804786430