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

Baowen Xue, Penny Tinkler and Anne McMunn

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2021, vol. 76, issue 9, 1838-1856

Abstract: 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

Keywords: ELSA; Exit full-time education; Life course; Multichannel sequence analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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