Glen h elder jr biography

Glen H. Elder Jr. wants to understand how the changing social, economic and cultural environment of people influences their lives from childhood to old age, as expressed in modes of adaptation, health, and well-being.

In this research, now called life course studies, he has observed and compared people in different birth cohorts over decades of their lives. His work has followed and observed children of the Great Depression through military service in World War II as well as rural farm youth during the economic recessions of the 1980s.

A recently completed study follows members of California's 1900 generation across the turbulence of 1920s prosperity, the Great Depression, and the economic boom of the War years .

Glen Elder's career has focused on understanding the reciprocal influences of changing environments and people's lives through the use of longitudinal samples of individuals and cohort members.

These changing environments include the Great Depression, militar