Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is a rich resource of public data for research and teaching about the life course, careers, gender, aging, retirement and health. The WLS is a 50-year study of the social and economic life course among more than 10,000 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957, and who have been followed up at ages 25, 36, 53-54, and 64-65. New surveys of graduates, selected siblings, and their spouses or widows were carried out from mid-2003 through mid-2006, and public data and documentation are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/. Areas in which WLS data are especially strong include social/family background, educational history, employment history, job characteristics, marital and child-rearing history, personality, physical and mental health, disability, income and wealth, retirement and pensions, cognitive functioning, leisure time activities, religious affiliation and participation, stressful life events, and mortality. Almost all data from the WLS are publicly available for research, either on the web or by special arrangement with the secure data analysis enclave (OLDR/WISA) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presenters: Robert M. Hauser and Taissa S. Hauser, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706; phone: (608) 262-4715; fax: (608) 262-8400; e-mail: wls@ssc.wisc.edu; homepage: http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/WLS/wlsarch.htm/.
The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) is a 45 year-old study of the social and economic life course among 10,000 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957, and who have been followed up at ages 25, 36, and 53-54. Data from the original respondents or their parents from 1957 to 1975 cover social background, youthful and adult aspirations, schooling, military service, family formation, labor market experience, and social participation. The 1992-93 surveys cover occupational histories; income, assets, and economic transfers; social and economic characteristics of parents, siblings, and children; and mental and physical health and well-being. Parallel interviews have been carried out with siblings in 1977 and 1993-94. A new round of survey data collection from graduates, siblings, and their spouses or widows is planned to begin late in mid-2003. These new data will repeat previous measures, but add more extensive data on health, health behaviors, health insurance, psychological and cognitive functioning, family relations, social and civic participation, and preparation for retirement and for the end of life. WLS data and documentation are available on the world wide web.
Keywords of relevance to WLS are: ability, aging, alcohol, aspirations, assets, careers, caregiving, children, cognition, college, depression, divorce, earnings, education, employment, family, fertility, gender, health, households, income, insurance, intelligence, labor force, life course, marriage, menopause, mental health, mid-life, mobility, morbidity, occupations, pensions, personality, physical health, psychological well-being, religion, retirement, siblings, social participation, voting, and wealth.

Publication Type: Traditional Presentation
Abstract: This session will explore EE’s role in achieving sustainable communities highlighting the efforts of the Wisconsin school forest program. The necessary content and skill areas for sustainability education will be discussed and examples of Wisconsin school forests will be provided.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In 1983, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the hunting, fishing and gathering rights of Wisconsin’s six Ojibwe bands under treaties signed in the middle of the nineteenth century. The decision catalyzed the development an intertribal resource management agency that is articulating a new relationship between tribal communities and engendering an Ojibwe national consciousness by virtue of the Commission’s interaction with state and federal wildlife management agencies. This paper assesses the changes that have taken place in state-tribal relations in the nearly 25 years since the process began and the challenges of negotiating policy within different paradigms of cultural value.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper focuses on the ability of a referendum agenda setter to strategically time elections. A formal model of the strategic scheduling of elections is developed, and then empirically tested using a dataset of school referendum in Wisconsin.