Cohort Analysts' Futile Quest: Statistical Attempts to Separate Age, Period and Cohort Effects

Glenn, Norval D.

doi:10.2307/2094738

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“…Because age = period -cohort, simultaneously estimating all three temporal effects on an outcome of interest yields an infinite number of solutions. Attempts to circumvent their collinearity have long been viewed with suspicion (Glenn, 1976;Luo, 2013). Instead of attempting to decompose these influences, our approach was to infer the most plausible dominant mechanism from the present pattern of results.…”

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confidence: 99%

Is utilitarian sacrifice becoming more morally permissible?

2018

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Word count: 1960 (excluding methods, results, references, author contributions and cover page) INCREASING PERMISSIBILITY OF UTILITARIAN SACRIFICE 2 Abstract A central tenet of contemporary moral psychology is that people reject many forms of utilitarian sacrifice. Yet, evidence for secularization and declining empathic concern in recent decades suggests the possibility of systematic change in this attitude. In the present study, we employ hypothetical dilemmas to investigate whether judgments of utilitarian sacrifice are becoming more permissive over time. In a cross-sectional design, age negatively predicted utilitarian moral judgment (Study 1). To examine whether this pattern reflected processes of maturation, we asked a panel to re-evaluate several moral dilemmas after a nine-year interval but observed no overall change (Study 2). In contrast, a more recent age-matched sample revealed greater endorsement of utilitarian sacrifice in a time-lag design (Study 3). Taken together, these results suggest that today's younger cohorts increasingly endorse a utilitarian resolution of sacrificial moral dilemmas.

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2018

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“…While many papers proposed empirical estimations of the three effects (Mason, et al 1973;Fienberg / Mason 1979), an "identification problem" besets all APC models (Glenn 1976;Mason / Wolfinger 2001). This arises from the equation: a=p-c. That is, each variable is a combination of the other two.…”

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The Impact of Cohort Membership on Disposable Incomes in West Germany, France, and the United States

Chauvel

Schröder

2015

Eur Sociol Rev

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“…Some group one of APC to break the exact collinearity producing results that arbitrarily depend on the chosen grouping (Glenn, 1976;Osmond & Gardner, 1989). Others use more complex statistical legerdemain.…”

Section: Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%