Donna S. Rothstein

Featured Article This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) to examine marriage and divorce patterns for a cohort born in the years 1957 to 1964. By age 55, 87 percent of men and women had married at least once and 40 percent had divorced at least once; among those who had married, 46 percent had divorced at least once. On average, people had 1.2 marriages by age 55.

January 2022 | Vol. 11 / No. 1 EMPLOYMENT & UNEMPLOYMENT By Alison Auginbaugh and Donna S. Rothstein In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered job loss in the labor market on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. A year later, the economic situation had improved.

Article The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) has historically been a key source of information for examining health disparities. As the NLSY79 sample members continue to age, mortality differences within the cohort born in 1957–64 are becoming starker.