The term cohort effect is used in social science to describe variations in the characteristics of an area of study (such as the incidence of a characteristic or the age at onset) over time among individuals who are defined by some shared temporal experience or common life experience, such as year of birth, or year of exposure to radiation.
[1][2] Cohort effects are important to epidemiologists searching for patterns in illnesses.
Cohort effects are important to resource dependency, and economics theorists when these groups affect structures of influence within their larger organizations.
For example, cohort effects are critical issues in school enrollment.
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