Cohort Studies Working Group Winds Down

After 25 years of promoting research on economic events over the course of the lifecycle, inter-generational household linkages, and how individuals in different birth cohorts have been affected by the variation over time in economic, institutional, and demographic factors, the NBER Working Group on Cohort Studies has closed. Research Associate Dora Costa, the Kenneth L. Sokoloff Professor of Economic History at UCLA, founded the group and served as its sole director. For many years, the Working Group was supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging. Active research on the core issues that animated the group's meetings continues in several NBER programs, particularly Economics of Aging, Children and Families, and Development of the American Economy.