Methods for Studying Consequences of Life Events: Interdisciplinary Persperctives

ECONtribute invites to the workshop on “Consequences of Life Events” on 11th and 12th of May 2023.  Research on the consequences of critical life events (e.g., divorce, job loss, parenthood, bereavement) has a long tradition in various disciplines, including economics, psychology, sociology, demography, social epidemiology, gerontology, and medicine. Methodological advances in studying the consequences of life events have spread only slowly within and across disciplines.

This workshop will bring together a curated set of internationally renowned scholars from different disciplines to discuss diverse analytical approaches, common problems, and new solutions to these problems.

Possible topics include the definition of the counterfactual, external validity, event and control samples, impact functions, age-period-cohort, anticipation effects, recovery, between-within models, sequence analysis Trajectories around events (latent growth mixture models, GAMM, etc.), Comparative analyses of life events , heterogeneity / individual differences / social change in the impact of life even.

Please see the programme attached. There will also be a live stream, to be accessed here. The access code is 467631.

Registration: Via Mail to Erika Dünkelmann sek-leopold@wiso.uni-koeln.de