On the frontier of adulthood : emerging themes and new directions / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Rubén G. Rumbaut, and Richard A. Settersten Jr. — The transition to adulthood during the twentieth century : race, nativity, and gender / Elizabeth Fussell and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. — American women’s transition to adulthood in comparative perspective / Elizabeth Fussell and Anne H. Gauthier — Historical roots of family diversity : marital and childbearing trajectories of American women / Lawrence L. Wu and Jui-Chung Allen Li — Historical trends in patterns of time use among young adults in developed countries / Anne H. Gauthier and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. — Generation gaps in attitudes and values from the 1970s to the 1990s / Tom W. Smith — Subjective age identity and the transition to adulthood : when do adolescents become adults? / Michael J. Shanahan … [et al.] — Sequences of early adult transitions : a look at variability and consequences / Ted Mouw — Off to a good start? Postsecondary education and early adult life / Gary D. Sandefur, Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck, and Hyunjoon Park — Six paths to adulthood : fast starters, parents without careers, educated partners, educated singles, working singles, and slow starters / D. Wayne Osgood … [et al.] — Is it getting harder to get ahead? Economic attainment in early adulthood for two cohorts / Mary Corcoran and Jordan Matsudaira — Material assistance from families during the transition to adulthood / Robert F. Schoeni and Karen E. Ross — Early adult transitions and their relation to well-being and substance use / John Schulenberg … [et al.] — The ever-winding path : ethnic and racial diversity in the transition to adulthood / John Mollenkopf … [et al.] — The transition to adulthood for youth leaving public systems : challenges to policies and research / E. Michael Foster and Elizabeth J. Gifford — Social policy and the transition to adulthood : toward stronger institutions and individual capacities / Richard A. Settersten Jr.