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Age, Period, Cohort, and Generational Effects

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This chapter introduces four basic concepts in applied social science: age, period, cohort, and generation. It also describes the attempts at disentangling the effects of each one in empirical work.

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Iparraguirre, J.L. (2018). Age, Period, Cohort, and Generational Effects. In: Economics and Ageing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93248-4_2

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