Quantitative Methods in the
Social Sciences 2
Summer School on Analysing the life course
Introduction to event history analysis with a special focus on cross-national comparisons
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| Venue: | INSEE School (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique) |
| Date: | 18-26 August 2009 |
| Instructors: | Professor Hans-Peter Blossfeld (University of Bamberg, Germany) Professor Melinda Mills (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) |
| Assistants: | Sandra Buchholz and Katrina Kolb (University of Bamberg), |
| Guest Speakers: | Professor Fiona Steele (Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol, UK) |
| Professor Louis-André Vallet (CNRS, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique, France) |
Summary
The aim of the summer school was to introduce students to event history analysis, with a focus on cross-national comparisons and advances in the field. In addition to practical computer exercises, students also learned the mathematical and theoretical fundamentals of these techniques. Guest speakers focused on advances in the field, including topics such as multilevel event history models, the relationship between survival and Poisson regression models and log-multiplicative modelling.
Preparatory Reading
Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Blossfeld, H.-P. and Rohwer G. (2001). Techniques of Event History Modeling: New Approaches to Casual Analysis. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.
Melinda Mills
Mills, M. (forthcoming), ‘The Fundamentals of Survival and Event History Analysis,’ pp. 1-17, in: Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis. London: Sage.
Blossfeld, H.-P. and Mills, M. (2001), ‘A Causal Approach to Interrelated Family Events: A Cross-national Comparison of Cohabitation, Nonmarital Conception, and Marriage,’ Canadian Studies in Population, 28(2): 409-437.
Another useful reading for those focussing on comparative research:
Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.H.P and Wolf, C. (2003), ‘Comparing demographic and socio-economic variables across nations’, pp. 389-406. Advances in Cross-national Comparison. (eds. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik and Wolf). NY: Kluwer.
Fiona Steele
Singer, J.D and Willett, J.B. (1993), ‘It’s About Time: Using Discrete-Time Survival Analysis to Study Duration and the Timing of Events’, Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 18, No. 2, 155-195.
Schedule
| Tuesday 18 | Welcome drink at 5 pm at ENSAE Short presentation of organisational aspects by the local team First dinner together in a nearby restaurant |
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| Wednesday 19 | Hans-Peter Blossfeld | Introduction to Event History Analysis (=EHA) |
| Thursday 20 | Hans-Peter Blossfeld | Introduction to EHA |
| Friday 21 | Melinda Mills | Cross-national comparisons using EHA |
| Saturday 22 | Melinda Mills | Cross-national comparisons using EHA |
| Sunday 23 | Free time in Paris One-hour sightseeing cruise on the River Seine with a "Bateau-Mouche" |
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| Monday 24 | Fiona Steele | The relationship between Survival Models and Poisson Regression Models |
| Tuesday 25 | Fiona Steele | Multilevel Event History Analysis |
| Last dinner together | ||
| Wednesday 26 | Louis-André Vallet | Recent Advances in Log-Multiplicative Modelling |
| End of the Summer School after lunch | ||
Teaching material
Hans-Peter Blossfeld's research presentations
Who marries whom?
The diffusion of cohabitation
Fiona Steele
- Outline and timetable
- Slides (Multilevel Discrete-Time Event History Analysis + Introduction to Multilevel Modelling)
- Introduction to Discrete-Time Models
- MLwiN practical exercise
- MLwiN worksheet (hutter.wsz)
- Exercise solution
To download MLwiN 'free teaching version for use with on-line learning materials':
http://www.cmm.bris.ac.uk/MLwiN/download/index.shtml
(NB: The training version only works with 'marked' worksheets, which includes those used in the manuals and on-line learning materials. Users cannot read in their own data.)
Louis-André Vallet
- Slides of the lecture
- Xie Y. (1994), Log-Multiplicative Models for Discrete-Time, Discrete-Covariate Event-History Data, Sociological Methodology, Vol. 24 (1994), pp. 301-340.
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