Ten Years of Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues : Thoughts on Future Directions
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Ten Years of Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues: Thoughts on Future Directions Elizabeth M. Dolan1 Accepted: 30 October 2020 / Published online: 18 November 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Looking back at what we have learned over the last 10 years from research published in JFEI is an important exercise. But perhaps it is even more important to look forward into the future. What do we still need to learn? Are the data sources we have been using adequate for what we need to know? Where should we focus our attentions? The virtual journal of “Ten Years of Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and Thoughts on Future Directions” (https://link.springer.com/journal/volum esAndIssues/10834?tabName=topicalCollections) provides a wealth of information summarized by topic area from the over 400 papers published in JFEI between 2010 and 2019 (Volumes 31–40), covering 17 themes or categories. In this Special Section of JFEI, we are providing the authors’ thoughts on where our research on family economic issues should proceed in the future, along those 17 themes. The authors were sent the list of the papers to be included in their manuscripts. The sorting of the JFEI-published papers was done by me. Each of the authors (or teams of authors) was asked to end the thematic manuscript with 2-pages devoted to ideas of what we still need to learn about the particular topic, and perhaps how best to go about doing it. As the authors’ manuscripts were finalized, they “detached” their future directions section so it could appear in here. Some authors warmed to the topic of future directions with many more than 2 pages. These authors were given the option of keeping what they had written for the virtual journal and writing a separate closer-to-2-pages version for this publication, or simply cutting their future directions down to about 2 pages. Several authors (e.g., Dew, Bartholomae and Fox, Wilmarth) chose to write a separate, shorter version for this publication. Therefore, what you read here will be * Elizabeth M. Dolan [email protected] 1
University of New Hampshire, 1 Firefly Circle, Somersworth, NH 03878, USA
different (i.e., shorter) than what you will read in the virtual journal. The future directions short papers are organized in the same order as the virtual journal. Furthermore, each paper here has the link to the longer manuscript in the virtual journal. The future directions manuscripts, authors, and titles, are organized as follows: Family Composition • Family matters: Heather H. Kelley, Ashley B LeBaron, • • • •
and E. Jeffrey Hill (title: Family Matters: Decade Review from Journal of Family and Economic Issues) Marriage and cohabitation: Jeffrey Dew (title: Ten Years of Marriage and Cohabitation Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues) Retirement: Deanna Sharpe (title: Reinventing Retirement) Ethnic minorities: Roudi Roy, Anthony G. James, and Tiffany L. Brown (title: Racial/Ethnic Minority F
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