Life Course Events in Aging

描述(由申请人提供)：国家经济研究局(NBER)自2002年以来每年春季组织并主办其队列研究工作组为期一天的研讨会。这些研讨会聚集了大约15-20名学者，他们对以下问题有共同的兴趣：老龄化中的人生历程事件的分析；累积暴露在老龄化相关结果中的作用；以及了解不同队列以及队列内不同种族、民族、性别和社会经济群体的经济、制度和人口背景如何变化。队列研究工作组研究了不同的队列--不同的出生年份和不同的国家--以了解衰老过程中的生活事件。通过研究生命周期事件如何影响这些不同队列的老年结果，将有可能评估生命周期事件如何与环境相互作用来影响老年结果。还有可能确定衰老过程中是否存在某些生物和行为反应，以及这些反应的延展性如何。最后，考察发达国家过去的群体有助于阐明发展中国家可能发生的变化。这个应用程序从NIA申请资金，以两种关键的方式在年度队列研究会议的基础上继续发展。首先，我们建议将工作坊从一天扩大到两天。其次，与仅有NBER基金相比，赠款基金将使我们能够支持更广泛的学者群体的参与。这一群体将包括不隶属于NBER但从事老龄化和生命过程研究的学者，这些学者来自美国大量研究型大学(包括NIA支持的人口统计学和老龄经济学中心)；在不同国家从事老龄化和生命过程研究的研究人员；来自经济学以外的研究背景(如社会学、人口学、流行病学、临床医学、心理学和地理学)的学者；政府机构或非大学组织的研究人员；正在开发或扩大其在老龄化和生命过程方面研究议程的新手；在出生队列或美国和国外其他长期纵向研究方面有专长的研究人员；研究人员正在开发研究纵向数据集的新方法工具。这一应用还将使NBER能够扩大队列研究计划的内容，包括介绍统计方法、流行病学和生物学以及临床研究和关于特定纵向数据集的报告方面的最新进展，包括新纵向数据集的可用性和对现有纵向数据集的扩展。 公共卫生相关性：了解生命历程事件的作用对公共卫生投资具有影响。拟议的年度会议将通过为不同学科之间的互动提供机会，实现协作研究，并允许研究人员向不同学科学习，潜在地影响他们的工作方式，从而影响这一领域的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has been organizing and hosting one day workshops of its Cohort Studies Working Group each year in the spring since 2002. The workshops bring together roughly 15-20 scholars with a common interest in analyses of life course events in aging; in the role of cumulative exposures in aging-related outcomes; and in understanding how the economic, institutional, and demographic context has changed for different cohorts and for different racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic groups within cohorts. The Cohort Studies Working Group studies different cohorts - across birth years and across countries - to understand life course events in aging. By examining how life cycle events have affected the older age outcomes of these different cohorts, it will be possible to evaluate how life cycle events interact with the environment to affect older age outcomes. It will also be possible to identify whether there are certain biological and behavioral responses that are a normal part of the aging process and how malleable these responses are. Finally, examining past cohorts in developed countries can help elucidate the changes that may happen in developing countries. This application requests funds from NIA to build on the annual Cohort Studies meetings in two crucial ways. First, we propose to expand the workshop from one day to two. Second, grant funds would allow us to support the participation of a broader group of scholars than would be possible with NBER funds alone. This group would include scholars not affiliated with NBER but engaged in aging and life course research from a large number of research universities in the United States (including NIA-supported Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging); researchers working on aging and the life course in different countries; scholars from research backgrounds other than economics (such as sociology, demography, epidemiology, clinical medicine, psychology, and geography); researchers at government agencies or non-university organizations; newer investigators developing or expanding their research agenda in aging and the life course; researchers with expertise in birth cohort or other long-term longitudinal studies in the U.S. and abroad; and researchers developing new methodological tools for the study of longitudinal data sets. This application would also enable the NBER to expand the content of the Cohort Studies program to include presentations on recent advances in statistical methodologies, in epidemiology and biology, and in clinical studies and reports on specific longitudinal datasets, including the availability of new longitudinal datasets and expansions to existing longitudinal datasets. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Understanding the role of life course events has implications for public health investments. The proposed annual meetings will influence research in this area by providing opportunities for interactions across different disciplines, enabling collaborative research, and by allowing researchers to learn from different disciplines, potentially influencing the way they work.