Event History Analysis

Lawrence L. Wu is Director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He has substantial methodological expertise in event history methods and has given several invited didactic seminars on these methods. His methodological work on event history methods has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Child and Human Development. He is chair-elect of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, book review editor of Sociological Methods and Research, and series editor (with M. Alvarez and N. Beck) of Analytical Methods for Social Research.

VOLUME 1 Overviews Event History Models for Life Course Analysis - Lawrence Wu Nonparametric Estimation: Theory Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations - E.L. Kaplan and Paul Meier Theory and Applications of Hazard Plotting for Censored Failure Data - Wayne Nelson Nonparametric Inference for a Family of Counting Processes - Odd Aalen A Flaw in Actuarial Exposed-to-Risk Theory - Jan Hoem Issues in Smoothing Empirical Hazards - Lawrence Wu Nonparametric Estimation: Applications The Incidence of Divorce within Cohorts of American Marriages Contracted since the Civil War - Samuel Preston and John McDonald Slipping Into and Out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells - Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children's Family Contexts - Larry Bumpass and Hsien-Hen Lu Cohort Estimates of Nonmarital Fertility - Lawrence Wu The Cox Model: Theory Regression Models and Life Tables - D. R. Cox Understanding Cox's Regression Model: A Martingale Approach - Richard Gill The Cox Model: Applications Unemployment over the Life Cycle: Racial Differences and the Effect of Changing Economic Conditions - Thomas DiPrete Entry into Marriage and Parenthood by Young Men and Women: The Influence of Family Background - Robert Michael and Nancy Brandon Tuma Parametric Models: Theory On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality - Benjamin Gompertz The Distribution by Age of the Frequency of First Marriage - Ansley Coale and Donald McNeil The Process of Entry into First Marriage - Gudmund Hernes A Comparison of the 'Sickle Function' with Alternative Stochastic Models of Divorce Rates - Andreas Diekmann and Peter Mitter VOLUME 2 Parametric Models: Applications The Divergence of Black and White Marriage Patterns - Neil Bennett, David Bloom and Patricia Craig Social Inheritance of Divorce in Postwar Germany - Andreas Diekman and Henriette Engelhardt Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace - Lauren Edelman Contextual Effects in the Classroom: The Impact of Ability Groups on Student Attention - Diane Felmlee and Donna Eder The Liability of Newness: Age Dependence in Organizational Death Rates - John Freeman, Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan Income and Independence Effects on Marital Dissolution: Results from the Seattle and Denver Income-Maintenance Experiments - Michael Hannan, Nancy Brandon Tuma and Lyle Groeneveld Diverging Fertility Among U.S. Women Who Delay Childbearing - Steven Martin Rewards, Resources and the Rate of Mobility: A Nonstationary Multivariate Stochastic Model - Nancy Brandon Tuma Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism - Christopher Uggen Time-Varying Covariates: Applications Social Change, the Social Organization of Families and Fertility Limitation - William Axinn and Scott Yabiku Principles of Cohesion in Cohabitation and Marriage - Julie Brines and Kara Joyner An Event History Analysis of Racial Rioting in the 1960s - Daniel Myers Questions in Time: Investigating the Structure and Dynamics of Unfolding Classroom Discourse - Martin Nystrand, Lawrence Wu, Adam Gamoran, Susie Zeiser and Daniel Long Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth - Lawrence Wu and Brian Martinson Effects of Family Instability, Income and Income Instability on the Risk of a Premarital Birth - Lawrence Wu VOLUME 3 Discrete-Time Models: Theory Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories - Paul Allison Change and Stability in Educational Stratification - Robert Mare Discrete-Time Models: Applications Mothers, Children, and Cohabitation: The Intergenerational Effects of Attitudes and Behavior - William Axinn and Arland Thornton Two Decades of Family Change: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage - Megan Sweeney No Trend in the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce - Jui-Chung Allen Li and Lawrence Wu Another Look at the Stratification of Educational Transitions: The Logistic Response Model with Partial Proportionality Constraints - Robert Hauser and Megan Andrew Unobserved Heterogeneity: Theory Heterogeneity's Ruses: Some Surprising Effects of Selection on Population Dynamics - James Vaupel and Anatoli Yashin A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumptions in Econometric Models for Duration Data - James Heckman and Burton Singer Heterogeneity, Omitted Variable Bias and Duration Dependence - Gary Chamberlain Simultaneous Equations for Hazards: Marriage Duration and Fertility Timing - Lee Lillard Kindred Lifetimes: Frailty Models in Population Genetics - J.W. Vaupel Unobserved Heterogeneity: Applications Interrelated Family-Building Behaviors: Cohabitation, Marriage, and Nonmarital Conception - Michael Brien, Lee Lillard and Linda Waite Does Unemployment Cause Future Unemployment? Definitions, Questions, and Answers from a Continuous Time Model of Heterogeneity and State Dependence - James Heckman and George Borjas New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births - James Heckman, V. Joseph Hotz and James Walker VOLUME 4 Competing Risks: Theory A Nonidentifiability Aspect of the Problem of Competing Risks - A Tsiatis The Identifiability of the Competing Risks Model - James Heckman and Bo Honore Competing Risks: Applications Drug Use and Other Determinants of Premarital Pregnancy and Its Outcome: A Dynamic Analysis of Competing Events - Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise Kandel Social Capital and International Migration: A Test Using Information on Family Networks - Alberto Palloni, Douglas Massey, Miguel Ceballos, Kristin Espinosa and Michael Spittel Nonproportionalmodels Local Hazard Models - Lawrence Wu and Nancy Brandon Tuma Log-Multiplicative Models for Discrete-Time Discrete-Covariate Event History Data - Yu Xie An Approach to Nonparametric Regression for Life History Data using Local Linear Fitting - Gang Li and Hani Doss Trajectories of Fetal Loss in the Czech Republic - Elwood Carlson, Jan Hoem and Jitka Rychtarikova Left Truncation and Left Censoring On the Treatment of Interrupted Spells and Initial Conditions in Event History Analysis - Alfred Hamerle The Distribution of Single Spell Duration Data - Geert Ridder Models for Clustered, Sequential, and Diffusion Processes Estimating a Multivariate Proportional Hazards Model for Clustered Data Using the EM Algorithm, with an Application to Child Survival in Guatemala - Guang Guo and German Rodriguez Multivariate Survivorship Analysis Using Two Cross-Sectional Samples - Mark Hill A Nested Frailty Model for Survival Data, With an Application to the Study of Child Survival in Northeast Brazil - Narayan Sastry Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Diffusion - David Strang and Nancy Brandon Tuma Effects of Exposure on Prevalence and Cumulative Risk: Direct and Indirect Effects in a Recursive Hazard Model - Lawrence Wu and Steven Martin