Age-period-cohort (APC) analysis has a long, controversial history in sociology and related
fields. Despite the existence of hundreds, if not thousands, of articles and dozens of books …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …