Age-Period-Cohort

Key Readings:

1. Winship, Christopher, and David J. Harding. 2008. A mechanism-based approach to the identification of age-period-cohort models. Sociological Methods & Research 36 (3):362-401.

2. Fosse, Ethan, and Christopher Winship. "Analyzing Age-Period-Cohort Data: A Review and Critique." Annual Review of Sociology 45 (2019).

3. Fosse, Ethan, and Christopher Winship. "Moore–Penrose Estimators of Age–Period–Cohort Effects: Their Interrelationship and Properties." Sociological Science 5 (2018): 304.

4. Luo, Liying, James Hodges, Christopher Winship, and Daniel Powers. "The sensitivity of the intrinsic estimator to coding schemes: comment on Yang, Schulhofer-Wohl, Fu, and Land." American Journal of Sociology 122, no. 3 (2016): 930-961.

5. Fosse, Ethan, and Christopher Winship. "Bounding analyses of age-period-cohort effects." Demography 56, no. 5 (2019): 1975-2004.

6. Fosse, Ethan, Christopher Winship, and Adel Daoud. 2020. "Learning from age–period–cohort data: Bounds, mechanisms, and 2D-APC graphs." Pp. 142-175 in Age, Period and Cohort Effects: Statistical Analysis and the Identification Problem, edited by Andrew Bell. London: Routledge.

7. Fosse, Ethan. 2020. "Bayesian Age-Period-Cohort Models." Pp. 84-116 in Age, Period and Cohort Effects: Statistical Analysis and the Identification Problem, edited by Andrew Bell. London: Routledge.

8. Fosse, Ethan. 2022. "Visualizing Ryderian Comparative Cohort Careers: Trends in Tolerance for Homosexuality, 1886 to 2001." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 8: 1–3.

9. Fosse, Ethan. 2023. “Dissecting the Lexis Table: Summarizing Population-Level Temporal Variability with Age–Period–Cohort Data.” Sociological Science 10: 150-196.

10. Fosse, Ethan, and Christopher Winship. 2023 "The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis:Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers." Sociological Methodology.

10. Gowen, Ohjae, Ethan Fosse, and Christopher Winship. Forthcoming. "Cross-Group Differences in Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: A Bounding Approach to the Gender Wage Gap." 

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Recent Publications

Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (n.d.). Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (n.d.). Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
Winship, C. (n.d.). Varieties of Cross-Cohort Differentiation: Extending the LC-SC Model for Cohort Analysis.
Winship, C. (n.d.). Varieties of Cross-Cohort Differentiation: Extending the LC-SC Model for Cohort Analysis.
Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (2023). The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis: Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers.". Sociological Methodology, 53(2), 217-268.
Fosse, E., & Winship, C. (2023). The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis: Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers.". Sociological Methodology, 53(2), 217-268.
Wehrwein, Z. R., Winship, C., Hitlin, S., Dromi, S. M., & Luft, A. (2023). What Sort of Social Inequality Matters for Democracy? Relations and Distributions. In Handbook of the Sociology of Morality (Vols. 2, pp. 341-355). Springer.
Wehrwein, Z. R., Winship, C., Hitlin, S., Dromi, S. M., & Luft, A. (2023). What Sort of Social Inequality Matters for Democracy? Relations and Distributions. In Handbook of the Sociology of Morality (Vols. 2, pp. 341-355). Springer.
Hureau, D. M., Braga, A. A., Lloyd, T., & Winship, C. (2023). Streetwork at the Crossroads: An Evaluation of a Street Gang Outreach Intervention and Holistic Appraisal of The Research Evidence. Criminology, 61(4), 758-794.
Hureau, D. M., Braga, A. A., Lloyd, T., & Winship, C. (2023). Streetwork at the Crossroads: An Evaluation of a Street Gang Outreach Intervention and Holistic Appraisal of The Research Evidence. Criminology, 61(4), 758-794.
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