We use hierarchical cross-classified random-effects models to simultaneously measure age, period, and cohort patterns of mortality risk between 1986 and 2006 for non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black men and women with less than a high school education, a high school education, and more than a high school education. We examine all-cause…

Purpose: The goal of this study was to determine the impact of age, gender, and race on the prevalence and severity of hearing loss in elder adults, aged 72-96 years, after accounting for income, education, smoking, and clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease. Methods: Air-conduction thresholds for standard and extended high-frequency…

Examined impact of age, period, and cohort effects on United States white male suicide rates between 1933 and 1978. Employed Shazam ordinary-least-squares computer package to estimate logit coefficients for seven models. Results revealed that period effects were weaker than age and cohort effects for explaining shifts in white male suicide…

Analysis of Current Population Survey data indicates that each successive cohort of white family heads born since 1944-48 faced an increasingly greater chance of being poor, even with the increase in female-headed families controlled. The black cohort effect is not significant, but period effects suggest that blacks' economic gains of the 1970s…

Studied long-term consequences of adolescent marriage in three age cohorts of males. Found that Black and White males who married as adolescents completed less education, earned less, held lower-status occupations, and experienced more marital disruption than did peers who married as adults. (Author/NB)

The Office of Research and Evaluation of the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in Austin, Texas has reported yearly high school dropout counts since the 1983-1984 school year. This report presents data from three cohorts of high school students--those enrolled in 1983-1984, 1984-1985, and 1985-1986. The method used to assign dropout status…