%0 Journal Article %1 chauvel2015endless %A Chauvel, Louis %A Smits, Fransje %D 2015 %J European Societies %K 2015 EB_input2015 Eurobarometer FDZ_IUP SCOPUSindexed SSCIindexed article checked cohort_analysis demography education english indexproved input2015 political_participation review_proved reviewed socialization %N 2 %P 242-278 %R 10.1080/14616696.2015.1006133 %T The Endless Baby Boomer Generation %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2015.1006133 %V 17 %X Using the Eurobarometer cross-sectional data sets conducted between 1976 and 2008 in nine European countries, we aim to describe and explain cohort differences. We make use of recent improvements of the age–period–cohort (APC) methodology to have a better assessment of these cohort-based changes. At first, we find strong and significant cohort fluctuations in participation in political discussion where the people born in the period 1945–1955 have an almost systematically higher participation than previous and following cohorts. The introduction of individual level variables such as education does not explain the cohort bump of the early baby boomers. Post-APC estimations show that the contextual factors size of a birth cohort and economic affluence at the entry into adulthood are important explanatory factors for cohort differences. In conclusion, since strong cohort effects are detected in the APC model, the decline in participation of the young appears to be less a temporary moratorium that will vanish with age but a durable trait without redeem.

@article{chauvel2015endless, abstract = {Using the Eurobarometer cross-sectional data sets conducted between 1976 and 2008 in nine European countries, we aim to describe and explain cohort differences. We make use of recent improvements of the age–period–cohort (APC) methodology to have a better assessment of these cohort-based changes. At first, we find strong and significant cohort fluctuations in participation in political discussion where the people born in the period 1945–1955 have an almost systematically higher participation than previous and following cohorts. The introduction of individual level variables such as education does not explain the cohort bump of the early baby boomers. Post-APC estimations show that the contextual factors size of a birth cohort and economic affluence at the entry into adulthood are important explanatory factors for cohort differences. In conclusion, since strong cohort effects are detected in the APC model, the decline in participation of the young appears to be less a temporary moratorium that will vanish with age but a durable trait without redeem. }, added-at = {2019-03-20T18:49:19.000+0100}, author = {Chauvel, Louis and Smits, Fransje}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27837a0af504ac9bcdb9b86a1a5e83551/gesis_dump}, doi = {10.1080/14616696.2015.1006133}, eprint = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2015.1006133}, interhash = {26f8d03a7a114a1cee910b9e7b3b105a}, intrahash = {7837a0af504ac9bcdb9b86a1a5e83551}, journal = {European Societies}, keywords = {2015 EB_input2015 Eurobarometer FDZ_IUP SCOPUSindexed SSCIindexed article checked cohort_analysis demography education english indexproved input2015 political_participation review_proved reviewed socialization}, note = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2015.1006133. (Eurobarometer)}, number = 2, pages = {242-278}, study = {Eurobarometer 1976-2008}, tagadata-svko-dda-test = {10384}, tagadata-svkoddatest2 = {10377}, timestamp = {2019-10-01T13:00:49.000+0200}, title = {The Endless Baby Boomer Generation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2015.1006133}, volume = 17, year = 2015 }