MPC Member Publications

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Title: Understanding the Effects of COVID-19 Through a Life Course Lens

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2020

ISSN: 10402608

DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100360

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic is shaking fundamental assumptions about the human life course in societies around the world. In this essay, we draw on our collective expertise to illustrate how a life course perspective can make critical contributions to understanding the pandemic’s effects on individuals, families, and populations. We explore the pandemic’s implications for the organization and experience of life transitions and trajectories within and across central domains: health, personal control and planning, social relationships and family, education, work and careers, and migration and mobility. We consider both the life course implications of being infected by the Covid-19 virus or attached to someone who has; and being affected by the pandemic’s social, economic, cultural, and psychological consequences. It is our goal to offer some programmatic observations on which life course research and policies can build as the pandemic’s short- and long-term consequences unfold.

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Authors: Settersten Jr., Richard A; Bernardi, Laura; Härkönen, Juho; Antonucci, Toni C.; Dykstra, Pearl A.; Heckhausen, Jutta; Kuh, Diana; Mayer, Karl Ulrich; Moen, Phyllis; Mortimer, Jeylan T; Mulder, Clara H.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; van der Lippe, Tanja; Hagestad, Gunhild O.; Kohli, Martin; Levy, René; Schoon, Ingrid; Thomson, Elizabeth

Periodical (Full): Advances in Life Course Research

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Pages: 100360

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