Kirsten Grind's article, Mother, Can You Spare a Room? in the Weekend Investor section of the May 4/5, 2013 Wall Street Journal discussing the rise in the number of young adults returning home to live after completing college quotes Professor Zhenchao Qian, Chair of Sociology at The Ohio State University  as saying "The weak economy--and the lack of jobs available for recent graduates--is the biggest reason kids are moving back home.  Professor Qian led a 2012 research study on the subject.