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Reviews the book "Statistical Models for Longitudinal Studies of Health," edited by James H. Dweyer, Manning Feinleib, Peter Lippert and Hans Hoffmeister.

Paul Glewwe of University of Minnesota reviews, 'Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project' by Robert M. Townsend, Sombat Sakunthasathien and Rob Jordan. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: 'Explores the personal and intellectual process of how the Townsend Thai Project originated and became one of the longest-running development surveys of its kind. Discusses discovering a country and a collaborator; the baseline survey-60,000 questions in two months; the annual resurveys-the financial crisis and beyond; the monthly surveys; developing the information systems-local knowledge and global technologies; dreams and reality-expanding the project; forging new ground-expanding to urban areas; and looking back-reflections of a survey veteran.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data," edited by James J. Heckman and Burton Singer.

The focus of these studies is on agrarian change looking at "well-being and prosperity" rather than poverty per se (23). This book explains the complexity of poverty measurement and definitions through a series of longitudinal studies across a number of districts in Tanzania. One thing the authors make clear is not that asset accumulation is a proxy for moving out of poverty, but that the story is much more complex and context specific " ... in another respect one of the most salient points across these different case studies is their diversity. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies," by Michael J. Daniels and Joseph W. Hogan.

Reviews the book "Problems and Methods in Longitudinal Research: Stability and Change," edited by David Magnusson, Lars R. Bergman, George Rudinger, and Bertil Törestad.

The article reviews the book "Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys," edited by Peter Lynn.

Reviews the book "Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century," edited by Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. and Anne Colby.

The article reviews the book "Antedependence Models for Longitudinal Data," by Dale L. Zimmerman and Vicente A. Nunez-Anton.

The article reviews the book "Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data," edited by T. A. Walls and J. L. Schafer.

The article reviews the book "Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data," edited by Theodore A. Walls and Joseph L. Schafer.

The article reviews the book "Developmental Influences on Adult Intelligence: The Seattle Longitudinal Study," by K. Warner Schaie.

Reviews the book "National Development and the World System -- Educational, Economic and Political Change, 1950--1970," by John W. Meyer and Michael T. Hannan.

The article reviews the book "Applied Longitudinal Analysis," by G. M. Fitzmaurice, N. M. Laird and J. H. Ware.