Managing Director
Head of the Laboratory of Population Health
Head of the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being
Head of the Research Group Labor Demography
Director of the MaxHel Center

Mikko Myrskylä

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I am Director at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research where I lead the Department Social Demography, and Professor of Social Data Science at the University of Helsinki. Previously I worked at the London School of Economics as Professor of Demography. Two key areas in my research at the moment are the ERC Synergy project BIOSFER: Untangling the causes of low fertility in modern societies that I lead together with Co-Pis Siri Eldevik Håberg from Norway and Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen from Denmark; and the Max Planck-University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health that I lead jointly with Co-Director Pekka Martikainen from Finland. My training includes a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Helsinki, and most of my work focuses on population health, fertility dynamics, and demographic forecasting.

MPIDR Publications

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Abrams, L. R.; Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N. K.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:42, e2308360120–e2308360120. (2023)       
van Raalte, A. A.; Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Myrskylä, M.:
Demography, 1–10. (2023)       
Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:
Demography, 1–23. (2023)       
Batyra, E.; Leone, T.; Myrskylä, M.:
Population Studies 77:2, 179–195. (2023)    
Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:
Epidemiology 34:3, 402–410. (2023)    

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