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The Long Shadow of Youth: Girls’ Transition From Full-Time Education and Later-Life Subjective Well-Being in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
[New life for old ideas: The “second wave” of sequence analysis bringing the “course” back into the life course]

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  • Baowen Xue
  • Penny Tinkler
  • Anne McMunn

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ObjectivesTo investigate whether the timing and nature of women’s transitions out of full-time (FT) education are related to later-life subjective well-being and the life-course experiences that might explain any associations seen.MethodsData are from women in Wave 3 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing who have participated in the life history interview and were aged 50+ at the interview (n = 3,889). Using multichannel sequence analysis, we identified 6 types of transition out of FT education (ages 14–26). Regression models were used to examine associations between transition types and life satisfaction, quality of life, and depressive symptoms at age 50+.ResultsWomen who made early transitions to married parenthood and FT domestic labor had lower levels of well-being on all 3 later-life well-being outcomes (p

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  • Baowen Xue & Penny Tinkler & Anne McMunn, 2021. "The Long Shadow of Youth: Girls’ Transition From Full-Time Education and Later-Life Subjective Well-Being in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing [New life for old ideas: The “second wave” of s," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 76(9), pages 1838-1856.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:76:y:2021:i:9:p:1838-1856.
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