Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis: A Conceptual and Empirical Critique

The proper estimation of age, period, and cohort (APC) effects is a pervasive concern for the study of a variety of psychological and social phenomena, inside and outside of organizations. One analytic technique that has been used to estimate APC effects is cross-temporal meta-analysis (CTMA). Although CTMA has some appealing qualities (e.g., ease of interpretability), it has also been criticized on theoretical and methodological grounds....