Researchers’ career transitions over the life cycle

Pediatricians leading the way: integrating a career and a family/personal life over the life cycle.

Departments of aPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and bPediatrics, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC; cDepartment of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and dDepartment of Society, Human Development, and Health and the Center on Media and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; eAdolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston,...

Early Career Researchers

The aim of this symposium, the second of the biannual ECR symposium series for 2012, is to provide a forum for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present their work to fellow researchers and also to foster collaborations, enhance networking and bring together researchers located at the Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP). The AMREP ECRs come from the Central Clinical School, ...

eLife and early career researchers

There are many reasons for submitting your best work to eLife, especially if you are an early career researcher.

Political Participation over the Life Cycle

Household debt over the life cycle

Using data from the 2001 Survey of Consumer Finances, this study examines how the holding of types and amounts of household debt changes over the life cycle. The results show that the likelihood of holding each type of debt and the amount of each type of debt compared to total assets decrease with age. Although the popular press has speculated that older households accumulate excessive amounts ...