Craft of Life Course Research Elder Glen H. Jr.
Craft of Life Course Research Elder Glen H. Jr. This book brings together prominent investigators to provide a comprehensive guide to doing life course research, including an "inside view" of how…
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Craft of Life Course Research Elder Glen H. Jr.
This book brings together prominent investigators to provide a comprehensive guide to doing life course research, including an "inside view" of how they designed and carried out influential longitudinal studies. Well-organized chapters describe the best and newest ways to:Use surveys, life records, ethnography, and data archives to collect different types of data over years or even decades.Apply innovative statistical methods to measure dynamic processes that result in improvement, decline, or reversibility in economic fortune, stress, health, and criminality.Explore the micro- and macro-level explanatory factors that shape individual trajectories, including genetic and Using vivid examples, the contributors trace the connections between early and later experience and reveal how researchers and graduate students can discover these links in their own research.
Craft of Research Booth Wayne C.