Demographic Applications of Event History AnalysisEvent history analysis--the study of individual life histories--has developed rapidly over the past few years. This volume illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the subject. The number of surveys undertaken throughout the world to collect detailed information on the timing of events in individual lives--such as fertility surveys or migration histories--has increased, and new methods to analyze such data have developed. Unresolved technical and practical issues remain, however, and researchers often have limited experience of the new techniques--this volume addresses these issues and provides information on the new methodologies. The book covers three main areas. First, it summarizes the work on the incorporation of unmeasured heterogeneity into the analysis of event histories; secondly, it introduces a series of 'competitions' in which pairs of teams are assigned to analyse the same topic using the same data; finally, it discusses other methodological issues such as the treatment of missing data, the analysis of current-status data, and the relation between discrete and continuous time models. |
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analysis assumption B₁ baseline hazard becoming a home-owner behaviour birth cohort birth intervals censored coefficients cohabitation conception consensual union covariates current-status data demographic density dissolution risks distribution duration E-step economic effect entry into motherhood Estimate Std event history explanatory variables factors female wage gamma hazard function hazard model hazard rate Heckman and Walker home-ownership Husband included increase individual influence last birth likelihood log-linear model log-logistic logit male income male wage marital marriage married menarche milestone months non-parametric observed ownership parameters parity population probability probit proportional-hazards model regression regressors reported respondents sample saturated model second birth second unions specification spell length Statistics Sweden status Stockholm University survival analysis survivor function Sweden Swedish t₁ t₂ Table third birth time-varying tion transition Trussell union dissolution unobserved heterogeneity unobserved variables values wage change Wald tests Weibull white-collar women x₁