School-to-Work Transitions for Young Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Critical historical events leave a lasting impact on individuals’ developmental trajectories and there is reason to expect that young adults were particularly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sociologists Megan Iantosca, Shelley Kimelberg, and Kristen Schultz Lee will examine how young adults, age 18 to 24, navigated the challenges of school and work during the COVID-19 pandemic and how their experiences impacted their understandings of career paths and social mobility. They will analyze 94 qualitative interviews as well as survey data collected by the American Voices Project—a nationally representative, mixed methods, dataset—for their study.