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Recent Developments in Longitudinal Studies of Aging in the United States1 (2009)
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@MISC{Hauser09recentdevelopments,
author = {Robert M. Hauser and David Weir and Robert M. Hauser and David Weir},
title = {Recent Developments in Longitudinal Studies of Aging in the United States1},
year = {2009}
}
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Abstract
Two developments dominate the rapid evolution of large-scale, longitudinal studies of aging. First, there is now an international cohort of longitudinal studies of aging that one might better describe in terms of a network of investigators and samples than as a collection of discrete projects. Second – and equally importantly – in design and content they have increasingly become interdisciplinary and biosocial. In this essay, we focus on developments in the U.S. and do not attempt to cover international developments in a serious or comprehensive way. Also, the essay is mainly concerned with issues of survey design and method; we have made little attempt to review research findings. In the first section of this paper, we briefly sketch the pace and social context of population aging. Next, we review some of the history and methodological features of large-
