Event History Models for Life Course Analysis
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The questions posed by life course researchers often differ in fundamental ways from those posed by sociologists, developmental psychologists, or economists (Elder, 1998; Mayer & Tuma, 1990). For example, life course researchers often focus analytic attention on transitions marking adolescence or early adulthood and the roles and statuses accompanying such transitions (Hogan & Astone, 1986; Modell, Furstenberg, & Hershberg, 1976; Shanahan, 1999). Prototypical questions along these lines include whether certain social groups experience a more rapid transition to adulthood or whether the timing of such transitions (or the duration spent in selected life course statuses) has changed for successive cohorts (Winsborough, 1980). As Mayer and Tuma (1990) note work in this vein often implicitly conceives of social structure as arising out of individual experiences of varying duration, as opposed to alternative perspectives that see social structure in terms of collectivities of persons with particular fixed attributes (Blau, 1977), as generated from relational networks (and resulting “structural holes”) among individual actors (White, Boorman, & Breiger, 1976) or from the aggregate behavior of rational actors (Becker, 1991). Consider, for example, the linkage between early and later life course events, roles, and attitudes often posited by life course researchers (Elder, 1999).* Positing such linkages often generates a quite wide range of questions, which in turn carries important implications for the types of covariates and statistical models appropriate for life course research.
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