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Health and Retirement Studies Series

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Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

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HRS sister studies

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The international network of HRS sister studies has been a remarkable development. It has not been centrally managed or centrally funded; rather it has grown through the cooperative but fundamentally independent design and conduct of the many studies described in this section. The global need for longitudinal studies of aging is driven first and foremost by global aging – an ongoing demographic transformation affecting developed and less developed nations alike. The HRS model of a publicly available, multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the older population has proved so valuable to scientific researchers and policy-makers facing the challenges of aging that it has become the dominant framework adopted in the proliferation of international sister studies (also see “Gateway to Global Aging Data”). The value of comparative work has encouraged the sister studies to harmonize content. The HRS is now the model for a growing network of harmonized...

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  1. Health and Retirement Study, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    David Weir & Mary Beth Ofstedal

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  1. David Weir
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  2. Mary Beth Ofstedal
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Correspondence to David Weir .

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  1. Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, NY, USA

    Danan Gu

  2. Department of Population Health Sciences, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Matthew E. Dupre

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  1. Health and Retirement Study, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    David R. Weir Ph.D.

  2. Health and Retirement Study, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Mary Beth Ofstedal Ph.D.

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Weir, D., Ofstedal, M.B. (2021). Health and Retirement Studies Series. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22009-9_331

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