Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

Aart C. Liefbroer is Leader of the Theme Group on ‘Families and Generations’ and member of the Management Team at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, Netherlands, professor of Life Course Demography at the University Medical Centre Groningen of the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and professor by special appointment of Demography of Young Adults and Intergenerational Transmission at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is interested in determinants and consequences of young adults’ demographic decisions.

Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan is a researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and is affiliated with the University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands. She applies life-course concepts and theories to examine antecedents and consequences of young adults’ decisions concerning family life, work life and criminal engagement.