With increases in nonmarital fertility, the sequencing of transitions in early adulthood has become even more complex. Once the primary transition out of the parental home, marriage was first replaced by nonfamily living and cohabitation; more recently, many young adults have become parents before entering a coresidential union. Studies of leaving home, however, have not examined the role of ea...

National risk factors surveys present very important tool for gathering population based health related information for policy. Croatian Adult Health Survey (CAHS) is such a tool, intended to collect population-based, representative and authoritative information on cardiovascular risk factors prevalence. The CAHS sample was designed to provide nearly complete coverage (98%) of the Croatian adul...

A Multileve l Analysis of Young Adult Migration 19801998

Older adults are more likely to regulate their emotions by engaging in cognitive reappraisal. However, depending on the type of cognitive reappraisal used, efforts to regulate emotions are sometimes met with success and other times with failure. It has been suggested the well-known age-related decline in cognitive control might be the culprit behind the poor use of detached reappraisal by older...

Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor el...

The fireworks from the spectacular emergence of Notch as the protagonist in the etiology of T-ALL are not likely to end any time soon. Indeed, in this issue of Blood, Sulis and colleagues describe yet another sophisticated mechanism by which ligand-independent activation of NOTCH1 is achieved in T-ALL. NOTCH1activating mutations mark more than half of all T-ALL cases, underscoring the fundament...