Life Course Events in Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：自2002年以来，国家经济研究局（NBER）每年春季都会组织和举办为期一天的队列研究工作组研讨会。这些研讨会汇集了大约15-20名学者，他们对老龄化过程中的生命历程事件分析有共同的兴趣;在与老龄化相关的结果中累积暴露的作用;以及了解经济，制度和人口背景如何变化对于不同的队列和队列中的不同种族，民族，性别和社会经济群体。队列研究工作组研究不同的队列-跨出生年份和跨国家-以了解衰老中的生命过程事件。通过研究生命周期事件如何影响这些不同群体的老年结果，将有可能评估生命周期事件如何与环境相互作用，以影响老年结果。它还可以确定是否有某些生物和行为反应是衰老过程的正常部分，以及这些反应的可塑性如何。最后，研究发达国家过去的同期群体有助于阐明发展中国家可能发生的变化。该申请要求NIA提供资金，以两种关键方式建立年度队列研究会议。首先，我们建议将研讨会从一天扩大到两天。第二，赠款基金将使我们能够支持更广泛的学者群体的参与，而不仅仅是NBER的资金。这个小组将包括不隶属于国家经济研究局，但从事老龄化和生命过程研究的学者从大量的研究型大学在美国（包括国家老龄化研究所支持的人口统计学和老龄经济学中心）;研究人员在不同国家从事老龄化和生命过程的工作;非经济学研究背景的学者（如社会学、人口学、流行病学、临床医学、心理学和地理学）;政府机构或非大学组织的研究人员;较新的研究人员开发或扩大他们在老龄化和生命过程中的研究议程;具有出生队列或美国和国外其他长期纵向研究专业知识的研究人员;以及为纵向数据集研究开发新方法工具的研究人员。该应用程序还将使NBER能够扩展队列研究计划的内容，以包括统计方法，流行病学和生物学以及临床研究的最新进展，以及特定纵向数据集的报告，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：了解生命过程事件的作用对公共卫生投资有影响。拟议的年度会议将影响这一领域的研究，为不同学科之间的互动提供机会，使合作研究成为可能，并使研究人员能够从不同学科中学习，从而可能影响他们的工作方式。

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.