Age-period-cohort analysis of repeated cross-section surveys: Fixed or random effects?

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-326

  Yang, Yang ^a   Land, Kenneth C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age period cohort analysis; Fixed effects; General Social Survey; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449127691     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124106292360     Document Type: Article

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