A Bell - Annals of human biology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Context: Age, period and birth cohort (APC) effects have been known for decades in biological, health and social sciences. However, exact collinearity between these three …
Using 4.4 million tests of implicit and explicit attitudes measured continuously from an Internet population of US respondents over 13 years, we conducted the first comparative …
Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on a decade of the authors' collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a …
F Elwert - Handbook of causal analysis for social research, 2013 - Springer
This chapter discusses the use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) for causal inference in the observational social sciences. It focuses on DAGs' main uses, discusses central principles …
M Gangl - Annual review of sociology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Originating in econometrics and statistics, the counterfactual model provides a natural framework for clarifying the requirements for valid causal inference in the social sciences …
Are young people today politically'apathetic'? Or are they democratically'mature'citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to reveal changes in young people's …
Analysts often use different conceptual definitions of a cohort effect, and therefore different statistical methods, which lead to differing empirical results. A definition often used in …
In many different fields, social scientists desire to understand temporal variation associated with age, time period, and cohort membership. Among methods proposed to address the …
As our aging population grows ever larger, it is increasingly important to understand how adults age and what we can do to provide up-to-date care to ensure their well-being as an …