Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Transitions of AgingIn the Natural Experiment

The Transitions of Aging: In the Natural Experiment [The natural experiment offered by the cluster of political and public health reforms partitions the childhood years of the set of cohorts into pre-reform and post-reform era childhoods. This chapter explores the conditions required for any inference from such a natural experiment to be valid, as well as the limitations and the strengths of the inference. It finds that the differences in the profiles of cohorts brought up in the pre-reform era and the post-reform era were statistically significant, suggesting that political reform may have influenced modern aging. While the results may have some external validity, their internal validity is poor because the childhoods of the cohorts are likely to have differed along several dimensions other than being pre- or post-reform.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Transitions of AgingIn the Natural Experiment

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 12)
Arora, Suchit
The Transitions of Aging — Dec 12, 2014
Download PDF
10 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/the-transitions-of-aging-in-the-natural-experiment-Tp07qNeYCV

References (2)

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
ISBN
978-3-319-14402-3
Pages
121 –130
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-14403-0_7
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[The natural experiment offered by the cluster of political and public health reforms partitions the childhood years of the set of cohorts into pre-reform and post-reform era childhoods. This chapter explores the conditions required for any inference from such a natural experiment to be valid, as well as the limitations and the strengths of the inference. It finds that the differences in the profiles of cohorts brought up in the pre-reform era and the post-reform era were statistically significant, suggesting that political reform may have influenced modern aging. While the results may have some external validity, their internal validity is poor because the childhoods of the cohorts are likely to have differed along several dimensions other than being pre- or post-reform.]

Published: Dec 12, 2014

Keywords: Aging; Age-profiles; Generations; Non-communicable diseases; Natural experiment; Pre-reform; Post-reform; Selection bias; External validity; Internal validity

There are no references for this article.