S6E17 Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

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In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick explore both the challenges and the opportunities of age-period-cohort analysis when trying to understand the complexities of human behavior over time. Along the way they also discuss bachelor night, Dave Brubeck, pay phones, street lights, global nuclear war, lazy thinking, I’m not a crook, biking to grandmas, HMS Pinafore, the Beatles, aggressive mice, trash snakes, and getting high at A-Basin.

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Suggested Readings

Bell, A. (2020). Age period cohort analysis: a review of what we should and shouldn’t do. Annals of Human Biology47, 208-217.

Fienberg, S. E., & Mason, W. M. (1979). Identification and estimation of age-period-cohort models in the analysis of discrete archival data. Sociological Methodology10, 1-67.

Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (2019). Analyzing age-period-cohort data: A review and critique. Annual Review of Sociology45, 467-492.

Robinson, R. V., & Jackson, E. F. (2001). Is trust in others declining in America? An age–period–cohort analysis. Social Science Research30, 117-145.

Yang, Y., & Land, K. C. (2013). Age-period-cohort analysis: New models, methods, and empirical applications. Taylor & Francis.

Yang, Y., Schulhofer-Wohl, S., Fu, W. J., & Land, K. C. (2008). The intrinsic estimator for age-period-cohort analysis: what it is and how to use it. American Journal of Sociology113, 1697-1736.

 

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