3211 - Inequality Across the Life Course: 9 Experts Discuss Current Issues and Debates

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Join us for a walk across the life course! This invited panel of nine scholars will discuss current themes in inequality across four stages of the life course (childhood/adolescence, young adulthood, midlife, older adulthood). Have the major drivers of inequality changed in that stage of the life course? Are good things happening? Bad things? What are the latest hypotheses and debates? Panelists will discuss themes such as youth academic achievement, debt in young adulthood, work-family trajectories, chronic pain, religion, and end-of-life decision making. Each panelist will discuss a particular theme within a 5-minute segment. After the 45-minute segment, the panelists will take questions from the audience.

Sub Unit

• Section on Aging and the Life Course

Session Organizer

• Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University

Presider

• Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University

Individual Presentations

• Parental Resources and Youth Academic Achievement - Margot Jackson, Brown University

• Marijuana Legalization and Use among Adolescents - Richard A. Miech, University of Michigan

• Debt in Young Adulthood - Jason N. Houle, Dartmouth College

• Work-Family Trajectories - Sarah Damaske, Pennsylvania State University

• Chronic Pain and Opiod Use - Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, State University of New York-Buffalo

• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health and Morality - Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas-Austin

• Religion in Later Life - Merril Silverstein, Syracuse University

• Health Trajectories and Lifespan Variation - Michal Engelman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Bereavement and End-of-Life Decision-making - Deborah Carr, Boston University