These publications examine children’s experiences with multiple types of family instability over a single time period, using nationally representative, longitudinal data on nearly 15,000 children and their households between 2008 and 2013. By exploring measures of instability within and across domains—employment, income and earnings, children’s health care coverage and residential moves, and changes in family and household composition—we document the prevalence, frequency, and cumulative nature of change in key areas of family life.
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Exploring Cross-Domain Instability in Families with Children examines the nature and extent of instability among children and their households by socioeconomic status, using household education as a proxy.
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Cross-Domain Instability in Families with Some College Education looks at the experiences of children in households where the highest level of education is “some college”—these households show disproportionately high levels of instability in multiple areas of family life.
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Appendix A provides more detail on the study methodology and Appendix B provides additional detail on the analysis of families with “some college” education.