March 18, 2021 | 12:00pm
Richard A. Settersten, Jr. and Glen H. Elder, Jr. , Oregon State University, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
BCTR Talks at Twelve Rick Settersten and Glen Elder will join us for a discussion of their new book (with Lisa Pearce), Living on the Edge (University of Chicago Press, January 2021). Based on lifelong data drawn from the iconic Berkeley Guidance Study, the book tells the story of the rarely studied 1900 generation. Set against a century of revolutionary change, the book traces the 1900 generation’s social origins through education, marriage and childbearing, employment and their later years. From…