Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

Publications

Beck, K. C.; Hellstrand, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

More education and fewer children? the contribution of educational enrollment and attainment to the fertility decline in Norway

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-009. (2024)

Büyükkeçeci, Z.; Kühn, M.; Håberg, S. E.; Høst Ramlau-Hansen, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Subjective biology: how perceived fecundity influences relationship satisfaction and stability

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-012. (2024)

Carollo, A.; Putter, H.; Eilers, P. H. C.; Gampe, J.:

Competing risks models with two time scales

arXiv e-prints 2408.15058. unpublished. (2024)

Ciganda, D.; Lorenti, A.; Dommermuth, L.:

Microfoundations of the weakening educational gradient of fertility

Population Studies, 1–20. (2024)

Flatø, M.; Lee, D. S.; Kinge, J. M.; Magnus, M.; Ramlau-Hansen, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

The changing social gradient in age at menarche across cohorts and generations in Norway

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-035. (2024)

Gaml-Sørensen, A.; Hjorth Thomsen, A.; Søgaard Tøttenborg, S.; Brix, N.; Sørig Hougaard, K.; Toft, G.; Håberg, S. E.; Myrskylä, M.; Bonde, J. P.; Høst Ramlau-Hansen, C.:

Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and reproductive health in adult sons: a study in the Danish National Birth Cohort

Human Reproduction 39:1, 219–231. (2024)

Jasilioniene, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.; Myrskylä, M.:

Exploring associations between the Covid-19 vaccination campaign and fertility trends: a population-level analysis for 22 countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-006. (2024)

Lee, D. S.; Barclay, K.:

More twins expected in low-income countries with later maternal ages at birth and population growth

Human Reproduction. accepted. (2024)

Lee, D. S.; Barclay, K. J.; Magnus, M.; Ernst, A.; Myrskylä, M.:

Multiple births mortality by maternal age at birth: a within-family analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data on 42 low-income countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-034. (2024)

Nitsche, N.; Wilde, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Pandemic babies: the Covid‐19 pandemic and its impact on fertility and family dynamics

Malden, MA, USA: Wiley, Population and Development Review 50.S1. (2024)

Peters, S.; Mannerström, R.; Salmela-Aro, K.:

Identity and marriage: a bidirectional approach based on evidence from Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-028. (2024)

Schubert, H.-A.; Dudel, C.:

Too many men? Subnational population imbalances and male childlessness in Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-010. (2024)

Wilde, J.; Chen, W.; Lohmann, S.; Abdel Ghany, J.:

Digital trace data and demographic forecasting: how well did Google predict the US COVID-19 baby bust?

Population and Development Review 50:S1, 421–446. (2024)

Batyra, E.; Leone, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: the case of Brazil

Population Studies 77:2, 179–195. (2023)

Batyra, E.; Pesando, L. M.:

Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: 'Reverse policies' or data quality issues?

Population Studies, 1–19. (2023)

Batyra, E.; Pesando, L. M.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Furstenberg, F. F.; Kohler, H.-P.:

Union formation, within-couple dynamics, and child well-being: a global macro-level perspective

Population, Space and Place, 1–15. (2023)

Castro Torres, A. F.:

The neglected role of domestic migration on family patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1950-2000

Studies in Family Planning, 1–23. (2023)

Castro Torres, A. F.; Gutierrez Vazquez, E. Y.:

Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America

The Sociological Review 71:6, 1423–1447. (2023)

Ciganda, D.; Hellstrand, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Future fertility scenarios in Finland: a computational forecasting approach

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-010. (2023)

Fostik, A.; Fernández Soto, M.; Ruiz-Vallejo, F.; Ciganda, D.:

Union instability and fertility: an international perspective

European Journal of Population 39:25, 1–47. (2023)

Goisis, A.; Palma Carvajal, M.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Klemetti, R.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Pelikh, A.; Tosi, M.; Remes, H. M.:

Medically assisted reproduction and mental health: a 24-year longitudinal analysis using Finnish register data

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 228:3, 311–312. (2023)

John, B. M.; Nitsche, N.:

Indirect estimation of the timing of first union dissolution with incomplete marriage histories

Demography 60:2, 411–430. (2023)

Jung, M.; Lee, D. S.:

Subnational variations in births and marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea

Demographic Research 48:30, 867–882. (2023)

Keenan, K.; Barclay, K. J.; Goisis, A.:

Health outcomes of only children across the life course: an investigation using Swedish register data

Population Studies 77:1, 71–90. (2023)

Lee, D. S.; Batyra, E.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Wilde, J.:

Human fertility after a disaster: a systematic literature review

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290:1998, 1–16. (2023)

Lee, D. S.; Nitsche, N.; Barclay, K. J.:

Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 cohort

Population Studies 77:2, 241–261. (2023)

Lee, D. S.; Semenchenko, H.:

Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-011. (2023)

Lee, D. S.; Semenchenko, H.:

Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 1–11. (2023)

Liu, C.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Batyra, E.:

A gender story of institutional disengagement of young adults in Latin America

Sociology Compass 17:12, e13138–e13138. (2023)

Mogi, R.; Lazzari, E.; Nisén, J.; Canudas Romo, V.:

Cross-sectional average length of life by parity: country comparisons

Population Studies 77:1, 1–14. (2023)

Nisén, J.; Erlandsson, A.; Jalovaara, M.:

Gendered relationship of childbearing with earnings accumulated by midlife in two Nordic countries

INVEST working papers 75/2023, Turku. (2023)

Nitsche, N.; Grunow, D.; Hudde, A.:

Couples’ ideological pairings, relative income and housework sharing

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-033. (2023)

Palumbo, L. V.; Berrington, A.; Eibich, P.; Vitali, A.:

Uncertain steps into adulthood: does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK?

Population Studies 77:2, 263–289. (2023)

Peters, S.:

The prospective power of personality on childbearing: a longitudinal study based on data from Germany

Genus 79:6, 1–40. (2023)

Peters, S.; Striessnig, E.; Testa, M.R.; Trimarchi, A.; Nitsche, N.:

Too worried about the environment to have children? Or more worried about the environment after having children? The reciprocal relationship between environmental concerns and fertility

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-023. (2023)

Schubert, H.-A.; Dudel, C.; Kolobova, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Revisiting the J-shape: human development and fertility in the United States

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-022. (2023)

Abufhele, A.; Pesando, L. M.; Castro Torres, A. F.:

Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 82:100736, 1–14. (2022)

Barclay, K. J.; Smith, K. R.:

Birth spacing and health and socioeconomic outcomes across the life course: evidence from the Utah Population Database

Demography 59:3, 1117–1142. (2022)

Batyra, E.; Kohler, H.-P.:

Unequal transitions to adulthood: widening disparities in age at first union, sex, and birth in many low- and middle-income countries

Studies in Family Planning 53:3, 389–565. (2022)

Castro Torres, A. F.:

Family formation trajectories and migration in the United States by the end of the 20th century

Current Sociology, 1–30. (2022)

Castro Torres, A. F.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

North and South: naming practices and the hidden dimension of global disparities in knowledge production

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119:10, e2119373119–e2119373119. (2022)

Esteve, A.; Castro-Martin, T.; Castro Torres, A. F.:

Families in Latin America: trends, singularities, and contextual factors

Annual Review of Sociology 48, 485–505. (2022)

Gabay-Egozi, L.; Nitsche, N.; Grieger, L.:

In their footsteps or shadow? Gender differences in choosing a STEM major as a function of sibling configuration and older sibling’s gender and math ability

Sex Roles 86:1-2, 106–126. (2022)

García Arias, J. A.; Castro Torres, A. F.:

A binational analysis of infant mortality among crisis-driven diasporas and those who remain: a population-based study in Colombia and Venezuela

BMJ Global Health 7:8, e009523–e009523. (2022)

García-Gómez, J.; Loi, S.; Nitsche, N.:

Want but won’t: a research note on the gap between fertility desires and intentions in Spain

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-033. (2022)

Gardner, E. J.; Neville, M. D. C.; Samocha, K. E.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.; Niemi, M. E. K.; Kirov, G.; Martin, H. C.; Hurles, M. E.:

Reduced reproductive success is associated with selective constraint on human genes

Nature 603:7903, 858–863. (2022)

John, B.; Adjiwanou, V.:

Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa: does remarriage matter?

Population Studies 76:2, 213–233. (2022)

John, B.; Nitsche, N.:

Indirect estimation of the timing of first union dissolution with incomplete marriage histories

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-011. (2022)

John, B.; Nitsche, N.:

Marital life courses in sub-Saharan Africa: all cause union dissolution, its timing, and time spent outside marriage

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-017. (2022)

John, B.; Nitsche, N.:

Dynamics of union dissolution in sub-Saharan Africa

Population and Development Review 48:4, 1163–1201. (2022)

Lee, D. S.; Knittel, T.; Deschner, T.; Heistermann, M.; Higham, J. P.:

Testing the role of testosterone versus estrogens in mediating reproductive transitions in female rhesus macaques

Hormones and Behavior 139:105123, 1–11. (2022)

Lerch, M.:

International migration and the growth of Zurich, 1836 to 1949

Population: English Edition 76:3, 433–460. (2022)

Nisén, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Martikainen, P.; Wilson, B.; Myrskylä, M.:

The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood: a dynamic analysis of young adulthood

Advances in Life Course Research 53:100496, 1–16. (2022)

Nisén, J.; Jalovaara, M.; Rotkirch, A.; Gissler, M.:

Fertility recovery despite the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland?

Finnish Journal of Social Research 15:2022, 25–44. (2022)

Nisén, J.; Tassot, J.; Iacoella, F.; Eibich, P.:

The effect of fertility timing on women’s earnings at midlife in the UK

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-021. (2022)

Nitsche, N.; Hudde, A.:

Countries embracing maternal employment opened schools sooner after Covid-19 lockdowns

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-008. (2022)

Nitsche, N.; Jasilioniene, A.; Nisén, J.; Li, P.; Kniffka, M. S.; Schöley, J.; Andersson, G.; Bagavos, C.; Berrington, A.; Čipin, I.; Clemente, S.; Dommermuth, L.; Fallesen, P.; Galdauskaite, D.; Jemna, D.; Lerch, M.; McDonnell, C.; Muller, A.; Neels, K.; Pötzsch, O.; Ramiro, D.; Riederer, B.; te Riele, S.; Szabó, L.; Toulemon, L.; Vignoli, D.; Zeman, K.; Žnidaršič, T.:

Pandemic babies? Fertility in the aftermath of the first COVID-19 wave across European regions

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-027. (2022)

Nitsche, N.; Lee, D. S.:

Emotion and fertility in times of disaster: conceptualizing fertility responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-020. (2022)

Palumbo, L. V.:

The relationship between economic precariousness, parental socio-economic status, and partnership dynamics among young adults in the UK

Southampton: University of Southampton. unpublished. (2022)

Peters, S.:

The prospective power of personality factors for family formation and dissolution processes among males: evidence from Swedish register data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-037. (2022)

Väisänen, H.; Batyra, E.:

The effect of birth intention status on infant mortality: a fixed effects analysis of 60 countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-032. (2022)

Barclay, K. J.; Lyngstad, T. H.; Conley, D.:

The production of inequalities within families and across generations: the intergenerational effects of birth order on educational attainment

European Sociological Review 37:4, 607–625. (2021)

Batyra, E.; Pesando, L. M.:

Trends in child marriage and new evidence on the selective impact of changes in age-at-marriage laws on early marriage

SSM-Population Health 14:100811, 1–12. (2021)

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Male-female fertility differentials across 17 high-income countries: insights from a new data resource

European Journal of Population 37:2, 417–441. (2021)

John, B.; Nitsche, N.:

Stalls and reversals in age at first marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of female education expansion

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-022. (2021)

Kniffka, M. S.; Nitsche, N.; Rau, R.; Kühn, M.:

Stillbirths in Germany: on the rise, but no additional increases during the first COVID-19 lockdown

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 155:3, 483–489. (2021)

Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:

Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967

Intelligence 84:101514, 1–11. (2021)

Lee, D. S.; Kang, Y. H. R.; Ruiz-Lambides, A. V.; Higham, J. P.:

The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the life span in a non-human primate

Journal of Animal Ecology 90:12, 2901–2914. (2021)

Mogi, R.; Nisén, J.; Canudas-Romo, V.:

Cross-sectional average length of life childless

Demography 58:1, 321–344. (2021)

Morwinsky, S.; Nitsche, N.; Acosta, E.:

COVID-19 fatality in Germany: demographic determinants of variation in case-fatality rates across and within German federal states during the first and second waves

Demographic Research 45:45, 1355–1372. (2021)

Nisén, J.; Klüsener, S.; Dahlberg, J.; Dommermuth, L.; Jasilioniene, A.; Kreyenfeld, M.; Lappegård, T.; Li, P.; Martikainen, P.; Neels, K.; Riederer, B.; te Riele, S.; Szabó, L.; Trimarchi, A.; Viciana, F.; Myrskylä, M.; Wilson, B.:

Educational differences in cohort fertility across sub-national regions in Europe

European Journal of Population 37:1, 263–295. (2021)

Nitsche, N.; Brückner, H.:

Late, but not too late? Postponement of first birth among highly educated U.S. women

European Journal of Population 37:2, 371–403. (2021)

Nitsche, N.; Matysiak, A.; van Bavel, J.; Vignoli, D.:

Educational pairings and fertility across Europe: how do the low educated fare?

Comparative Population Studies 46, 533–554. (2021)

Savelieva, K.; Nitsche, N.; Berg, V.; Miettinen, A.; Rotkirch, A.; Jokela, M.:

Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-010. (2021)

Wood, J.; Marynissen, L.; Nisén, J.; Fallesen, P.; Neels, K.; Trimarchi, A.; Dommermuth, L.; Van Gaalen, R.; Kolk, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Regional variation in women’s education-fertility nexus in Northern and Western Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-021. (2021)

Barbuscia, A.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Remes, H. M.; Somigliana, E.; Klemetti, R.; Goisis, A.:

Maternal age and risk of low birth weight and premature birth in children conceived through medically assisted reproduction: evidence from Finnish population registers

Human Reproduction 35:1, 212–220. (2020)

Barclay, K. J.; Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Kolk, M.; Ivarsson, A.:

Interpregnancy intervals and perinatal and child health in Sweden: a comparison within families and across social groups

Population Studies 74:3, 363–378. (2020)

Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

The influence of health in early adulthood on male fertility

Population and Development Review 46:4, 757–785. (2020)

Bijlsma, M. J.; Wilson, B.:

Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society/A 183:2, 493–513. (2020)

Campisi, N.; Kulu, H.; Mikolai, J.; Klüsener, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Spatial variation in fertility across Europe: patterns and determinants

Population, Space and Place 26:4, e2308–e2308. (2020)

Castro Torres, A. F.:

Analysis of Latin American fertility change in terms of probable social classes

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-001. (2020)

Dudel, C.; Cheng, Y. A.; Klüsener, S.:

The unexplored parental age gap in an era of fertility postponement

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-018. (2020)

Gabay-Egozi, L.; Grieger, L.; Nitsche, N.:

In my brother’s footstep or shadow? Siblings’ compositional characteristics and gender differences in STEM major

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-031. (2020)

Gardner, E. J.; Neville, M. D. C.; Samocha, K. E.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.; Niemi, M. E. K.; Kirov, G.; Martin, H. C.; Hurles, M. E.:

Sex-biased reduction in reproductive success drives selective constraint on human genes

bioRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Miranda, V.; Fallesen, P.; Dommermuth, L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Not just later, but fewer: novel trends in cohort fertility in the Nordic countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-007. (2020)

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

All-time low period fertility in Finland: demographic drivers, tempo effects, and cohort implications

Population Studies 74:3, 315–329. (2020)

Keenan, K.; Barclay, K. J.; Goisis, A.:

Health outcomes of only children across the life course: an investigation using Swedish register data

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-004. (2020)

Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:

Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-010. (2020)

Lerch, M.:

International migration and city growth in the global South: an analysis of IPUMS data for seven countries, 1992-2013

Population and Development Review 46:3, 557–582. (2020)

Lerch, M.:

The emergence and diffusion of birth limitation in urban areas of developing countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-014. (2020)

Lerch, M.; Spoorenberg, T.:

The emergence of birth limitation as a new stage in the fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa

Demographic Research 42:30, 827–858. (2020)

Nitsche, N.; Hayford, S.:

Preferences, partners, and parenthood: linking early fertility desires, marriage timing, and achieved fertility

Demography 57:6, 1975–2001. (2020)

Nitsche, N.; Trimarchi, A.; Jalovaara, M.:

The power of two: second birth rate differences between couples with homogamous and heterogamous educational pairings

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-029. (2020)

Pötzsch, O.; Klüsener, S.; Dudel, C.:

Wie hoch ist die Kinderzahl von Männern?

WISTA - Wirtschaft und Statistik 2020:5, 59–77. (2020)

Spilerman, S.; Barclay, K. J.:

Birth order pairings and romantic success

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-017. (2020)

Wood, J.; Klüsener, S.; Neels, K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Shifting links in the relationship between education and fertility: subnational spatial insights from the Belgian case

Population, Space and Place 26:8, e2342–e2342. (2020)

Barbuscia, A.; Myrskylä, M.; Goisis, A.:

The psychosocial health of children born after medically assisted reproduction: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

SSM-Population Health 7:100355, 1–11. (2019)

Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

Parity and mortality: an examination of different explanatory mechanisms using data on biological and adoptive parents

European Journal of Population 35:1, 63–85. (2019)

Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

The influence of health in early adulthood on male fertility

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-020. (2019)

Baudin, T.; Stelter, R.:

The rural exodus and the rise of Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-005. (2019)

Ciganda, D.; Lorenti, A.:

Using simulated reproductive history data to re-think the relationship between education and fertility

In: Social Informatics 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., 218–238. Cham: Springer. (2019)

Ciganda, D.; Todd, N.:

The limits to fertility recuperation

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-024. (2019)

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Estimating men's fertility from vital registration data with missing values

Population Studies 73:3, 439–449. (2019)

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Male fertility data for 17 high-income countries: data documentation and methods

MPIDR Technical Report TR-2019-001. (2019)

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

New opportunities for comparative male fertility research: insights from a new data resource based on high-quality birth registers

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-023. (2019)

Einiö, E.; Goisis, A.; Myrskylä, M.:

Is the relationship between men's age at first birth and midlife health changing? Evidence from two British cohorts

SSM-Population Health 8:100458, 1–10. (2019)

Fox, J. F.; Klüsener, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Is a positive relationship between fertility and economic development emerging at the sub-national regional level? Theoretical considerations and evidence from Europe

European Journal of Population 35:3, 487–518. (2019)

Goisis, A.; Remes, H. M.; Martikainen, P.; Klemetti, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Medically assisted reproduction and birth outcomes: a within-family analysis using Finnish population registers

The Lancet 393:10177, 1225–1232. (2019)

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

All-time low period fertility in Finland: drivers, tempo effects, and cohort implications

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-006. (2019)

Kashyap, R.:

Is prenatal sex selection associated with lower female child mortality?

Population Studies 73:1, 57–78. (2019)

Klüsener, S.; Dribe, M.; Scalone, F.:

Spatial and social distance at the onset of the fertility transition: Sweden, 1880-1900

Demography 56:1, 169–199. (2019)

Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:

Cognitive ability and fertility amongst Swedish men born 1951-1967: evidence from military conscription registers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286:1902. (2019)

Lerch, M.:

Fertility decline in urban and rural areas of developing countries

Population and Development Review 45:2, 301–320. (2019)

Lerch, M.:

Regional variations in the rural-urban fertility gradient in the global South

PLOS One 14:7, e0219624–e0219624. (2019)

Molitoris, J.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

When and where birth spacing matters for child survival: an international comparison using the DHS

Demography 56:4, 1349–1370. (2019)

Nisén, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Martikainen, P.; Wilson, B.; Myrskylä, M.:

The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood on educational and labor market outcomes: a dynamic analysis of population-level effects over young adulthood

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-017. (2019)

Educational differences in cohort fertility across sub-national regions in Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-018. (2019)

Riffe, T.; Barclay, K. J.; Klüsener, S.; Bohk-Ewald, C.:

Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-002. (2019)

Szołtysek, M.; Poniat, R.; Klüsener, S.; Gruber, S.:

Family organisation and human capital inequalities in historical Europe: testing the association anew

In: Cliometrics of the family, 83–119. Cham: Springer. (2019)

Arslan, R. C.; Willführ, K. P.; Frans, E. M.; Verweij, K. J. H.; Bürkner, P.-C.; Myrskylä, M.; Voland, E.; Almqvist, C.; Zietsch, B. P.; Penke, L.:

Relaxed selection and mutation accumulation are best studied empirically: reply to Woodley of Menie et al.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285:1873, 20180092–20180092. (2018)

Arslan, R. C.; Willführ, K. P.; Frans, E. M.; Verweij, K. J. H.; Bürkner, P.-C.; Myrskylä, M.; Voland, E.; Almqvist, C.; Zietsch, B. P.; Penke, L.:

Correction to: reply to Woodley of Menie et al.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285:1884, 20181427–20181427. (2018)

Barclay, K. J.:

The birth order paradox: sibling differences in educational attainment

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 54, 56–65. (2018)

Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

Birth intervals and health in adulthood: a comparison of siblings using Swedish register data

Demography 55:3, 929–955. (2018)

Barclay, K. J.; Lyngstad, T. H.; Conley, D.:

The production of inequalities within families and across generations: the intergenerational effects of birth order and family size on educational attainment

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2018-002. (2018)

Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Parental age and offspring mortality: negative effects of reproductive ageing may be counterbalanced by secular increases in longevity

Population Studies 72:2, 157–173. (2018)

Bohk-Ewald, C.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Forecast accuracy hardly improves with method complexity when completing cohort fertility

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115:37, 9187–9192. (2018)

Goisis, A.; Remes, H. M.; Barclay, K. J.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Paternal age and the risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery: a Finnish register-based study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 72:12, 1104–1109. (2018)

Goisis, A.; Schneider, D. C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Secular changes in the association between advanced maternal age and the risk of low birth weight: a cross-cohort comparison in the UK

Population Studies 72:3, 381–397. (2018)

Lappegård, T.; Klüsener, S.; Vignoli, D.:

Why are marriage and family formation increasingly disconnected across Europe? A multi-level perspective on existing theories

Population, Space and Place 24:2, e2088–e2088. (2018)

Lerch, M.:

Fertility and union formation during crisis and societal consolidation in the Western Balkans

Population Studies 72:2, 217–234. (2018)

Nisén, J.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Silventoinen, K.:

Education, other socioeconomic characteristics across the life course, and fertility among Finnish men

European Journal of Population 34:3, 337–366. (2018)

Wanner, P.; Lerch, M.; Galanxhi, E.:

Dynamique spatiale dans les regions albanaises: programme de développement des statistiques démographiques

In: Regards sur la population de l'Europe du Sud-Est, 105–113. Athens: Demobalk. (2018)

Arslan, R. C.; Willführ, K. P.; Frans, E. M.; Verweij, K. J. H.; Bürkner, P.-C.; Myrskylä, M.; Voland, E.; Almqvist, C.; Zietsch, B. P.; Penke, L.:

Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London/B 284:1862, 20171562–20171562. (2017)

Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

The effect of number of siblings on adult mortality: evidence from Swedish registers for cohorts born between 1938 and 1972

Population Studies 71:1, 43–63. (2017)

Barclay, K. J.; Hällsten, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Birth order and college major in Sweden

Social Forces 96:2, 629–660. (2017)

Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

The long-term cognitive and socioeconomic consequences of birth intervals: a within-family sibling comparison using Swedish register data

Demography 54:2, 459–484. (2017)

Bijlsma, M. J.; Wilson, B.:

Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-013. (2017)

Ciganda, D.; Villavicencio, F.:

Feedback mechanisms in the postponement of fertility in Spain

In: Agent-based modelling in population studies: concepts, methods, and applications, 405–435. Cham: Springer. (2017)

Dudel, C.:

Die Kinder der Väter

Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand 14:2, 3–3. (2017)

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Estimating male fertility from vital registration data with missing values

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-019. (2017)

Goisis, A.; Özcan, B.; Myrskylä, M.:

Decline in the negative association between low birth weight and cognitive ability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114:1, 84–88. (2017)

Goisis, A.; Remes, H. M.; Barclay, K. J.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Advanced maternal age and the risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery: a within-family analysis using Finnish population registers

American Journal of Epidemiology 186:11, 1219–1226. (2017)

Goisis, A.; Schneider, D. C.; Myrskylä, M.:

The reversing association between advanced maternal age and child cognitive ability: evidence from three UK birth cohorts

International Journal of Epidemiology 46:3, 850–859. (2017)

Kashyap, R.; Villavicencio, F.:

An agent-based model of sex ratio at birth distortions

In: Agent-based modelling in population studies: concepts, methods, and applications, 343–367. Cham: Springer. (2017)

Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:

Cognitive ability and fertility amongst Swedish men: evidence from 18 cohorts of military conscription

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-020. (2017)

Lerch, M.:

Urban and rural fertility transitions in the developing world: a cohort perspective

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-011. (2017)

Myrskylä, M.; Barclay, K. J.; Goisis, A.:

Advantages of later motherhood

Der Gynäkologe 50:10, 767–772. (2017)

Pifarré i Arolas, H.:

A cohort perspective of the effect of unemployment on fertility

Journal of Population Economics 30:4, 1211–1239. (2017)

Szołtysek, M.; Klüsener, S.; Poniat, R.; Gruber, S.:

The Patriarchy Index: a new measure of gender and generational inequalities in the past

Cross-Cultural Research 51:3, 228–262. (2017)

Szołtysek, M.; Poniat, R.; Klüsener, S.; Gruber, S.:

Family organisation and human capital inequalities in historic Europe: testing the association anew

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-012. (2017)

Wood, J.; Klüsener, S.; Neels, K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Is a positive link between human development and fertility attainable? Insights from the Belgian vanguard case

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-014. (2017)

Barclay, K. J.; Hällsten, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Birth order and college major in Sweden

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-008. (2016)

Barclay, K. J.; Keenan, K.; Grundy, E.; Kolk, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Reproductive history and post-reproductive mortality: a sibling comparison analysis using Swedish register data

Social Science and Medicine 155, 82–92. (2016)

Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Advanced maternal age and offspring outcomes: reproductive aging and counterbalancing period trends

Population and Development Review 42:1, 69–94. (2016)

Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Maternal age and offspring health and health behaviours in late adolescence in Sweden

SSM-Population Health 2, 68–76. (2016)

Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Linear effects of maternal age and period trends cannot be distinguished: response [Online Rejoinder]

Population and Development Review 42:4, 711–711. (2016)

Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Tynelius, P.; Berglind, D.; Rasmussen, F.:

Birth order and hospitalization for alcohol and narcotics use in Sweden

Drug and Alcohol Dependence 167, 15–22. (2016)

Baudin, T.; Stelter, R.:

Rural exodus and fertility at the time of industrialization

IRES discussion papers 2016/20, Louvain-la-Neuve. (2016)

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Estimating male fertility in eastern and western Germany since 1991: a new lowest low?

Demographic Research 35:53, 1549–1560. (2016)

Kashyap, R.; Villavicencio, F.:

The dynamics of son preference, technology diffusion, and fertility decline underlying distorted sex ratios at birth: a simulation approach

Demography 53:5, 1261–1281. (2016)

Klüsener, S.; Dribe, M.; Scalone, F.:

Spatial and social distance in the fertility transition: Sweden 1880-1900

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-009. (2016)

Klüsener, S.; Scalone, F.; Dribe, M.:

Exploring the role of communication in shaping fertility transition patterns in space and time

In: Agent-based modelling in population studies: concepts, methods, and applications, 369–403. Cham: Springer. (2016)

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Children's sex and the happiness of parents

European Journal of Population 32:3, 403–420. (2016)

Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Advanced maternal age and offspring outcomes: causal effects and countervailing period trends

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2015-009. (2015)

Fox, J. F.; Klüsener, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Is a positive relationship between fertility and economic development emerging at the sub-national regional level? Theoretical considerations and evidence from Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2015-006. (2015)

Fox, J. F.; Myrskylä, M.:

Urban fertility responses to local government programs: evidence from the 1923-1932 U.S.

Demographic Research 32:16, 487–532. (2015)

Kashyap, R.; Esteve, A.; Garcia-Roman, J.:

Potential (mis)match? Marriage markets amidst sociodemographic change in India, 2005–2050

Demography 52:1, 183–208. (2015)

Klüsener, S.:

Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends, persistence of the past, and potential future pathways

The History of the Family 20:4, 593–628. (2015)

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Parental well-being surrounding first birth as a determinant of further parity progression

Demography 52:4, 1147–1166. (2015)

Santavirta, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Reproductive behavior following evacuation to foster care during World War II

Demographic Research 33:1, 1–30. (2015)

Willführ, K. P.; Störmer, C.:

Social strata differentials in reproductive behavior among agricultural families in the Krummhörn region (East Frisia, 1720-1874)

Historical Life Course Studies 2, 58–85. (2015)

Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Birth order and physical fitness in early adulthood: evidence from Swedish military conscription data

Social Science and Medicine 123, 141–148. (2014)

Myrskylä, M.; Elo, I. T.; Kohler, I.; Martikainen, P.:

The association between advanced maternal and paternal ages and increased adult mortality is explained by early parental loss

Social Science and Medicine 119, 215–223. (2014)

Myrskylä, M.; Margolis, R.:

Happiness: before and after the kids

Demography 51:5, 1843–1866. (2014)

Nisén, J.; Martikainen, P.; Silventoinen, K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Age-specific fertility by educational level in the Finnish male cohort born 1940-1950

Demographic Research 31:5, 119–136. (2014)

Nisén, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Silventoinen, K.; Martikainen, P.:

Effect of family background on the educational gradient in lifetime fertility of Finnish women born 1940-50

Population Studies 68:3, 321–337. (2014)

Schmertmann, C.; Zagheni, E.; Goldstein, J. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Bayesian forecasting of cohort fertility

Journal of the American Statistical Association 109:506, 500–513. (2014)

Schnettler, S.; Klüsener, S.:

Economic stress or random variation? Revisiting German reunification as a natural experiment to investigate the effect of economic contraction on sex ratios at birth

Environmental Health 13:117, 1–13. (2014)

Jelenkovic, A.; Silventoinen, K.; Tynelius, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Rasmussen, F.:

Association of birth order with cardiovascular disease risk factors in young adulthood: a study of one million Swedish men

PLOS One 8:5, e63361–e63361. (2013)

Myrskylä, M.; Goldstein, J. R.:

Probabilistic forecasting using stochastic diffusion models, with applications to cohort processes of marriage and fertility

Demography 50:1, 237–260. (2013)

Myrskylä, M.; Goldstein, J. R.; Cheng, Y. A.:

New cohort fertility forecasts for the developed world: rises, falls, and reversals

Population and Development Review 39:1, 31–56. (2013)

Myrskylä, M.; Silventoinen, K.; Jelenkovic, A.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

The association between height and birth order: evidence from 652,518 Swedish men

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 67:7, 571–577. (2013)

Myrskylä, M.; Silventoinen, K.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

Is later better or worse? Association of advanced parental age with offspring cognitive ability among half a million young Swedish men

American Journal of Epidemiology 177:7, 649–655. (2013)

Silventoinen, K.; Myrskylä, M.; Tynelius, P.; Yokoyama, Y.; Rasmussen, F.:

Social modifications of the multiple birth effect on IQ and body size: a population-based study of young adult males

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 27:4, 380–387. (2013)

Barthold, J. A.; Myrskylä, M.; Jones, O. R.:

Childlessness drives the sex difference in the association between income and reproductive success of modern Europeans

Evolution and Human Behavior 33:6, 628–638. (2012)

Myrskylä, M.; Fenelon, A. T.:

Maternal age and offspring adult health: evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Demography 49:4, 1231–1257. (2012)

Myrskylä, M.; Goldstein, J. R.; Cheng, Y. A.:

New cohort fertility forecasts for the developed world

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-014. (2012)

Myrskylä, M.; Kohler, H.-P.; Billari, F. C.:

High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2011-017. (2011)

Myrskylä, M.; Kohler, H.-P.; Billari, F. C.:

Advances in development reverse fertility declines

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