Thursday, March 31 / 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM   •   Wilson C

Session 13:
Investments and Outcomes for Today's Children

Chair: Hedwig Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duke University

  1. The Transition to Adulthood: Too Slow or Too Fast?Suzanne M. Bianchi, University of California, Los Angeles ; Sarah M. Kendig, University of Texas at Austin ; Marybeth J. Mattingly, University of New Hampshire ; Betsy Thorn, University of Maryland

  2. Social Determinants and Consequences of Children’s Non-Cognitive Skills: An Exploratory AnalysisAmy Hsin, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) ; Yu Xie, University of Michigan

  3. Investing in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children, 1972 to 2007Sabino Kornrich, The University of Sydney ; Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania

  4. Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass ImprisonmentChristopher Wildeman, Yale University

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