Thursday, April 11 / 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM   •   Grand Couteau

Session 56:
Kin Availability and Intergenerational Transfers

Chair: Claudia Solari, Abt Associates
Discussant: Esther M. Friedman, Harvard University

  1. Racial and Educational Differentiation in Extended Kinship Structures in the United StatesJonathan Daw, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Ashton M. Verdery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2. Sandwiched between Aging Parents and Boomerang Kids in Two Cohorts of American WomenEmily Wiemers, University of Massachusetts at Boston ; Suzanne M. Bianchi, University of California, Los Angeles

  3. Declining Young Adult Economic Power in Parent-Adult Child Households: The Role of Race and Unmarried Parenthood, 1960 – 2010Joan R. Kahn, University of Maryland ; Fran Goldscheider, University of Maryland ; Javier Garcia-Manglano, University of Maryland

  4. Historical Trends in Parental Financial Support of Young AdultsPatrick Wightman, University of Michigan ; Megan Patrick, University of Michigan ; Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan ; John Schulenberg, University of Michigan

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