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Download full textIngels, Steven J.; Glennie, Elizabeth; Lauff, Erich; Wirt, John G. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
This report describes patterns of continuity and change over time in four areas of the transition to adulthood among young adults as measured 2 years after their senior year of high school. The four areas are postsecondary enrollment, labor force roles, family formation, and civic engagement through voting or military service. The analysis…
Descriptors: Military Service, High Schools, Marital Status, Young Adults
Settersten, Richard A., Jr.; Ray, Barbara – Future of Children, 2010
Richard Settersten and Barbara Ray examine the lengthening transition to adulthood over the past several decades, as well as the challenges the new schedule poses for young people, families, and society. The authors begin with a brief history of becoming an adult, noting that the schedule that youth follow to arrive at adulthood changes to meet…
Descriptors: Military Service, Young Adults, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
Direct linkGreen, Kerry M.; Ensminger, Margaret E. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use on employment, marriage, and family formation and tested both dropping out of high school and adult marijuana use as potential mediators of these associations among a community sample of African Americans followed longitudinally from age 6 to age 32-33. They used propensity …
Descriptors: Adolescents, Marriage, Marijuana, Adults
Drapela, Laurie A. – Youth & Society, 2006
This study assesses the effects of three factors on dropping out of high school and later drug use: antecedents to dropout; predictors of drug use articulated by criminological theories (e.g., social bonds, peers, and strain); and postdropout factors associated with adult social bonds (e.g., marriage and employment). Two findings emerge from the…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Marital Status, Drug Use, Family (Sociological Unit)
Kominski, Robert; Adams, Andrea – Current Population Reports, 1993
This report presents detailed tabulations of data on school enrollment of the civilian noninstitutionalized population in October 1991. It also includes summary time series of data from the beginning of the survey since 1946. These data cover enrollment in regular schooling from nursery school through college and professional school. Data are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, College Students, Dropout Rate
Kominski, Robert; Adams, Andrea – Current Population Reports, 1993
This report presents detailed tabulations of data on school enrollment of the civilian noninstitutionalized population in October 1992. It also includes summary time series of data from the beginning of the survey since 1946. These data cover enrollment in regular schooling from nursery school through college and professional school. Data are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, College Students, Dropout Rate
