Looking at lives : American longitudinal studies of the twentieth century - Phelps, Erin.; Furstenberg, Frank F.; Colby, Anne, 1946- (New York : Russel Sage Foundation, 2002)
Longitudinal studies and life-course research: innovations, investigators, and policy ideas / Janet Zollinger Giele -- How it takes thirty years to do a study / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- Looking backward: post hoc reflections on longitudinal surveys / Frank L. Mott -- Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's unraveling juvenile delinquency study: the lives of 1,000 Boston men in the twentieth century / John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson -- The study of adult development / George E. Vaillant -- The PSID and me / Greg J. Duncan -- Baltimore beginning school study in perspective / Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson -- Historical times and lives: a journey through time and space / Glen H. Elder, Jr. -- Phenomenological perspectives on natural history research: the longitudinal Harlem adolescent cohort study / Ann F. Brunswick -- The origin and development of preschool intervention projects / David P. Weikart -- Plotting developmental pathways: methods, measures, models, and madness / Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns -- Looking for trouble in paradise: some lessons learned from the Kauai longitudinal study / Emmy E. Werner -- Intergenerational panel study of parents and children / Arland Thronton, Ronald Freedman and William G. Axinn -- Generativity, identity, and the proclamation of landmarks / John Modell.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Social sciences -- Research -- United States -- Methodology; Social sciences -- Longitudinal studies