Today’s young adults are more educated and remain unmarried and childless longer than their counterparts even 20 years ago. College-educated young adults also have become increasingly dispersed, having settled disproportionately in mid-sized cities in the US West and Southeast such as Denver and Atlanta at the expense of large cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago that were until recently the destinations for recent college graduates.

This proposal is for the completion of a book intended to be published as part of the Cambridge University Press Elements Series.