Conference on Event-History Analyses of Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989

本次会议旨在培训年轻学者如何使用一个重要的数据集--收入动态小组研究，以及一种创新的数据分析技术--事件历史分析。自20世纪70年代初以来，就有了像收入动态小组研究这样的大规模纵向数据集，但它们还没有被充分利用来对一段时间的变化进行动态分析。这种动态分析的一种技术是事件历史分析，这是一套用于分析事件日期数据的方法，如就业或婚姻状况、家庭组成或贫困状况的变化。这次会议由两个部分组成：为期三天的讲习班，15名青年学者将接受事件历史方法和PSID数据使用方面的培训；20个月后，将举行一次会议，这些青年研究人员完成的论文可以在会上提出和评论。这种研讨会/会议形式在培训年轻学者和鼓励对由国家科学基金会和其他联邦机构资助的PSID事件历史数据进行更早、更高的投资方面特别有价值。

This conference aims to train young scholars in the use of an important data set, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and an innovative data analytic technique, event history analysis. Large-scale longitudinal data sets like the Panel Study of Income Dynamics have been available since the early 1970s, but they have not been fully exploited for dynamic analyses of changes over time. One technique for such dynamic analysis is event-history analysis, the name given to a set of methods for analyzing data on the dates of events, such as changes in employment or marital status, the composition of a household, or its poverty status. This conference has two components: a three-day workshop in which 15 young scholars will receive training in both the event history methodology and the use of the PSID data, and, 20 months later, a conference at which completed papers by these young investigators can be presented and critiqued. This workshop/conference format is especially valuable in training young scholars and in encouraging an earlier, higher return on investments in the PSID event-history data funded by the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies.