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Chapter: Appendix B: Contents: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood: Selected Studies

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contents: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood: Selected Studies." National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2005. Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11174.
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APPENDIX B
Contents The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Selected Studies

Cynthia B. Lloyd, Jere R. Behrman, Nelly P. Stromquist, and Barney Cohen, eds.

The National Academies Press (2005)

The panel commissioned numerous papers by panel members and other experts that provided much valuable background material that informed the panel’s deliberations. Many of these papers constitute useful contributions to the literature in their own right. Selected papers were subsequently modified to incorporate the comments of panel members and reviewers and are available in a companion volume entitled The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Selected Studies.

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Introduction

2.

Changing Contexts in Which Youth Are Transitioning to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Have Developing Economies Been

Converging Toward Developed Economies?

 

Jere Behrman and Piyali Sengupta

3.

Small Families and Large Cohorts: The Impact of the Demographic Transition on Schooling in Brazil

 

David Lam and Letícia Marteleto

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contents: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood: Selected Studies." National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2005. Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11174.
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4.

Progress towards Education for All: Trends and Current Challenges for sub-Saharan Africa

 

Paul C. Hewett and Cynthia B. Lloyd

5.

Trends in the Timing of First Marriage among Men and Women in the Developing World

 

Barbara Mensch, Susheela Singh, and John Casterline

6.

Marriage Patterns in Rural India: Influence of Sociocultural Context

 

Shireen Jejeebhoy and Shiva Halli

7.

Marriage in Transition: Evidence on Age, Education, and Assets from Six Developing Countries

 

Agnes Quisumbing and Kelly Hallman

8.

Adolescent Transitions to Adulthood in Reform-Era China

 

Emily Hannum and Jihong Liu

9.

Growing Up in Pakistan: The Separate Experiences of Males and Females

 

Cynthia B. Lloyd and Monica Grant

10.

Multilevel Modeling of Influences on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Cameroon

 

Barthélémy Kuate-Defo

11.

Assessing the Economic Returns to Investing in Youth in Developing Countries

 

James Knowles and Jere Behrman

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contents: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood: Selected Studies." National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2005. Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11174.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contents: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood: Selected Studies." National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. 2005. Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11174.
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The challenges for young people making the transition to adulthood are greater today than ever before. Globalization, with its power to reach across national boundaries and into the smallest communities, carries with it the transformative power of new markets and new technology. At the same time, globalization brings with it new ideas and lifestyles that can conflict with traditional norms and values. And while the economic benefits are potentially enormous, the actual course of globalization has not been without its critics who charge that, to date, the gains have been very unevenly distributed, generating a new set of problems associated with rising inequality and social polarization. Regardless of how the globalization debate is resolved, it is clear that as broad global forces transform the world in which the next generation will live and work, the choices that today's young people make or others make on their behalf will facilitate or constrain their success as adults. Traditional expectations regarding future employment prospects and life experiences are no longer valid.

Growing Up Global examines how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries, and what the implications of these changes might be for those responsible for designing youth policies and programs, in particular, those affecting adolescent reproductive health. The report sets forth a framework that identifies criteria for successful transitions in the context of contemporary global changes for five key adult roles: adult worker, citizen and community participant, spouse, parent, and household manager.

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