Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Beyond the Identification Problem (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. Introduction: Beyond the Identification Problem.- 2. The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change.- 3. Specification and Implementation of Age, Period and Cohort Models.- 4. Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Demography: A Review.- 5. Using Longitudinal Data to Estimate Age, Period and Cohort Effects in Earnings Equations.- 6. Age-Period-Cohort Analysis and the Study of Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis.- 7. Analysis of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Marital Fertility.- 8. Dynamic Modeling of Cohort Change: The Case of Political Partisanship.- 9. Generations, Cohorts, and Conformity.- 10. Simultaneous Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Several Cohorts.- 11. Statistics and the Scientific Method.- 12. Reply to Freedman.- 13. Comments on and Reactions to Freedman, Statistics and the Scientific Method.- 14. A Rejoinder to Fienberg's Comments.- Author Index.