Moreover, it recognizes that these influences change over time as a child matures and undergoes normal, expected life-course development and transitions.
Determine the expected life of the asset.
While the absolute levels of non-affiliation may differ across cohorts (with younger cohorts displaying more non-affiliation), the life course model expects disaffiliation (or increases in non-affiliation) to crest in young adulthood for all birth cohorts.
Furthermore, the longitudinal design allowed us to use multiple predictors of SEP over the life course, which would be expected to be associated with less measurement error than using single measures.
Based on neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve theory, cognitive abilities are expected to be modifiable at all stages of the life course [ 8].
You'd expect any effect to show up, instead, among people setting out on their life course.
Although less well understood, developmental timing of substance abuse has been assumed to be important as well, with different outcomes (e.g., addiction) expected depending on when certain events (e.g., onset of substance use) occur over the life course.
We have previously demonstrated that the life course accumulation of low socioeconomic status (SES) relates to allostatic load [ 30], and because cumulative SES also could be expected to influence adversity exposure it was considered a potential confounder.
However, we expect the endogeneity problems to be less profound when using education as SES measure, given that education is taken relatively early in the life course and thus precedes present labour market status.
Obesity shows the same life course dependency.
