The SHARE International Seminar Series (SISS) presents:

Life History Data from SHARE

Abstract

Research from different disciplines highlights the need to adopt a life course perspective to explain healthy ageing. This includes a more comprehensive assessment of life courses over time (e.g. employment or family trajectories) that can be linked to later life. Life history data are collected as part of the SHARELIFE questionnaires and offer remarkable opportunities for such studies. In addition, an increasing number of sister studies around the world are collecting such data that are now available from the Gateway to Global Aging Data platform (www.g2aging.org). The presentation will introduce harmonized life history data from SHARE and other international studies of the Gateway to Global Aging Data platform, including some examples to illustrate the potential for life course research.

Biography

Morten Wahrendorf works at the Institute for Medical Sociology at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, where he leads the Working Group on Work and Health. Previously, he worked at the International Centre for Life-course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) at University College London. His main research interests are work stress, health inequalities, life course epidemiology, ageing, and the comparative analysis of longitudinal cohort studies.