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A Rolling Panel Model of Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects for the Analysis of the General Social Survey

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  • Stephen L. Morgan
  • Jiwon Lee

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The linear dependence of age, period, and birth cohort is a challenge for the analysis of social change. With either repeated cross-sectional data or conventional panel data, raw change cannot be decomposed into over-time differences that are attributable to the effects of common experiences of alternative birth cohorts, features of the periods under observation, and the cumulation of lifecourse aging. This article proposes a rolling panel model for cohort, period, and aging effects, suggested by and tuned to the treble panel data collected for the General Social Survey from 2006 through 2014. While the model does not offer a general solution for the identification of the classical age-period-cohort accounting model, it yields warranted interpretations under plausible assumptions that are reasonable for many outcomes of interest. In particular, if aging effects can be assumed to be invariant over the course of an observation interval, and if separate panel samples of the full age distribution overlap within the same observation interval, then period and aging effects can be parameterized and interpreted separately, adjusted for cohort differences that pulse through the same observation interval. The estimated cohort effects during the observation interval are then interpretable as effects during the observation interval of entangled period and cumulated aging differences from before the observation interval.

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  • Stephen L. Morgan & Jiwon Lee, 2024. "A Rolling Panel Model of Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects for the Analysis of the General Social Survey," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 53(1), pages 369-420, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:somere:v:53:y:2024:i:1:p:369-420
    DOI: 10.1177/00491241211043135
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