Event history analysis is an umbrella term for a set of procedures for time series analysis. Event history models focus on the hazard function, which has to do with the probabilities that an event will occur after any given duration. Duration to the hazard of death was the classic example in medical research, but the hazard may have a positive meaning also, such as duration until the event of adoption of an innovation in diffusion research

Over the last two decades, event-history analysis has emerged as a mature analytical tool in the social sciences. This four-volume edited collection consists of a) classic papers that have been key in determining or explicating various subareas of event history analysis, and b) high quality applications that demonstrate the utility of event history analysis, drawn from a wide range of substantive areas.

VOLUME 1
Overviews
Event History Models for Life Course Analysis - Lawrence Wu
Nonparametric Estimation: Theory
Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations - E.L. Kaplan and Paul Meier
Theory and Applications of Hazard Plotting for Censored Failure Data - Wayne Nelson
Nonparametric Inference for a Family of Counting Processes - Odd Aalen
A Flaw in Actuarial Exposed-to-Risk Theory - Jan Hoem
Issues in Smoothing Empirical Hazards - Lawrence Wu
Nonparametric Estimation: Applications
The Incidence of Divorce within Cohorts of American Marriages Contracted since the Civil War - Samuel Preston and John McDonald
Slipping Into and Out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells - Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood
Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children¿s Family Contexts - Larry Bumpass and Hsien-Hen Lu
Cohort Estimates of Nonmarital Fertility - Lawrence Wu
The Cox Model: Theory
Regression Models and Life Tables - D. R. Cox
Understanding Cox¿s Regression Model: A Martingale Approach - Richard Gill
The Cox Model: Applications
Unemployment over the Life Cycle: Racial Differences and the Effect of Changing Economic Conditions - Thomas DiPrete
Entry into Marriage and Parenthood by Young Men and Women: The Influence of Family Background - Robert Michael and Nancy Brandon Tuma
Parametric Models: Theory
On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality - Benjamin Gompertz
The Distribution by Age of the Frequency of First Marriage - Ansley Coale and Donald McNeil
The Process of Entry into First Marriage - Gudmund Hernes
A Comparison of the ¿Sickle Function¿ with Alternative Stochastic Models of Divorce Rates - Andreas Diekmann and Peter Mitter
VOLUME 2
Parametric Models: Applications
The Divergence of Black and White Marriage Patterns - Neil Bennett, David Bloom and Patricia Craig
Social Inheritance of Divorce in Postwar Germany - Andreas Diekman and Henriette Engelhardt
Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace - Lauren Edelman
Contextual Effects in the Classroom: The Impact of Ability Groups on Student Attention - Diane Felmlee and Donna Eder
The Liability of Newness: Age Dependence in Organizational Death Rates - John Freeman, Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan
Income and Independence Effects on Marital Dissolution: Results from the Seattle and Denver Income-Maintenance Experiments - Michael Hannan, Nancy Brandon Tuma and Lyle Groeneveld
Diverging Fertility Among U.S. Women Who Delay Childbearing - Steven Martin
Rewards, Resources and the Rate of Mobility: A Nonstationary Multivariate Stochastic Model - Nancy Brandon Tuma
Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism - Christopher Uggen
Time-Varying Covariates: Applications
Social Change, the Social Organization of Families and Fertility Limitation - William Axinn and Scott Yabiku
Principles of Cohesion in Cohabitation and Marriage - Julie Brines and Kara Joyner
An Event History Analysis of Racial Rioting in the 1960s - Daniel Myers
Questions in Time: Investigating the Structure and Dynamics of Unfolding Classroom Discourse - Martin Nystrand, Lawrence Wu, Adam Gamoran, Susie Zeiser and Daniel Long
Family Structure and the Risk of a Premarital Birth - Lawrence Wu and Brian Martinson
Effects of Family Instability, Income and Income Instability on the Risk of a Premarital Birth - Lawrence Wu
VOLUME 3
Discrete-Time Models: Theory
Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories - Paul Allison
Change and Stability in Educational Stratification - Robert Mare
Discrete-Time Models: Applications
Mothers, Children, and Cohabitation: The Intergenerational Effects of Attitudes and Behavior - William Axinn and Arland Thornton
Two Decades of Family Change: The Shifting Economic Foundations of Marriage - Megan Sweeney
No Trend in the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce - Jui-Chung Allen Li and Lawrence Wu
Another Look at the Stratification of Educational Transitions: The Logistic Response Model with Partial Proportionality Constraints - Robert Hauser and Megan Andrew
Unobserved Heterogeneity: Theory
Heterogeneity¿s Ruses: Some Surprising Effects of Selection on Population Dynamics - James Vaupel and Anatoli Yashin
A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumptions in Econometric Models for Duration Data - James Heckman and Burton Singer
Heterogeneity, Omitted Variable Bias and Duration Dependence - Gary Chamberlain
Simultaneous Equations for Hazards: Marriage Duration and Fertility Timing - Lee Lillard
Kindred Lifetimes: Frailty Models in Population Genetics - J.W. Vaupel
Unobserved Heterogeneity: Applications
Interrelated Family-Building Behaviors: Cohabitation, Marriage, and Nonmarital Conception - Michael Brien, Lee Lillard and Linda Waite
Does Unemployment Cause Future Unemployment? Definitions, Questions, and Answers from a Continuous Time Model of Heterogeneity and State Dependence - James Heckman and George Borjas
New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births - James Heckman, V. Joseph Hotz and James Walker
VOLUME 4
Competing Risks: Theory
A Nonidentifiability Aspect of the Problem of Competing Risks - A Tsiatis
The Identifiability of the Competing Risks Model - James Heckman and Bo Honoré
Competing Risks: Applications
Drug Use and Other Determinants of Premarital Pregnancy and Its Outcome: A Dynamic Analysis of Competing Events - Kazuo Yamaguchi and Denise Kandel
Social Capital and International Migration: A Test Using Information on Family Networks - Alberto Palloni, Douglas Massey, Miguel Ceballos, Kristin Espinosa and Michael Spittel
Nonproportionalmodels
Local Hazard Models - Lawrence Wu and Nancy Brandon Tuma
Log-Multiplicative Models for Discrete-Time Discrete-Covariate Event History Data - Yu Xie
An Approach to Nonparametric Regression for Life History Data using Local Linear Fitting - Gang Li and Hani Doss
Trajectories of Fetal Loss in the Czech Republic - Elwood Carlson, Jan Hoem and Jitka Rychtarikova
Left Truncation and Left Censoring
On the Treatment of Interrupted Spells and Initial Conditions in Event History Analysis - Alfred Hamerle
The Distribution of Single Spell Duration Data - Geert Ridder
Models for Clustered, Sequential, and Diffusion Processes
Estimating a Multivariate Proportional Hazards Model for Clustered Data Using the EM Algorithm, with an Application to Child Survival in Guatemala - Guang Guo and German Rodriguez
Multivariate Survivorship Analysis Using Two Cross-Sectional Samples - Mark Hill
A Nested Frailty Model for Survival Data, With an Application to the Study of Child Survival in Northeast Brazil - Narayan Sastry
Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Diffusion - David Strang and Nancy Brandon Tuma
Effects of Exposure on Prevalence and Cumulative Risk: Direct and Indirect Effects in a Recursive Hazard Model - Lawrence Wu and Steven Martin