Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health

ISBN 10: 0804785856 / ISBN 13: 9780804785853

Published by Stanford University Press, 2013

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lifecycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804785856
• ISBN 13: 9780804785853
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kenneth A. Couch is Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. Mary C. Daly is Group Vice President and the Associate Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. Julie M. Zissimopoulos is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California and Associate Director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.