Project #3 Intergenerational Processes and Aging in Multiple Generations

DATE: September 1, 2014 to April 30, 2020

This project’s main goal is to enhance a genealogical database, the Intergenerationally-Linked Aging Sample (ILAS), and use it to understand the role of non-genetic factors in the intergenerational transmission of longevity, focusing on family structure, parental socioeconomic status (SES), and environmental shocks. The ILAS data have been collected from printed family histories and genealogies and contain demographic information on 118,062 people born between 1577 and 1983.

Investigators

Dora Costa, Principal Investigator
Leah Platt Boustan, Co-Investigator
Sok Chul Hong, Co-Investigator
Chulhee Lee, Co-Investigator
Robert A. Margo, Co-Investigator
Sven Wilson, Co-Investigator
Noelle Yetter, Director of Research Operations
Ran Abramitzky, Senior Investigator
Hoyt Bleakley, Senior Investigator
Moshe Buchinsky, Senior Investigator
Louis Nguyen, Senior Investigator
Irwin Rosenberg, Senior Investigator

Supported by the National Institute on Aging grant #P01AG010120

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Topics

Demography and Aging

Programs

Economics of Aging

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