Max Planck Research Group: Lifecourse Dynamics and Demographic Change

Contact

Job Title:   Head of the Research Group on Lifecourse Dynamics and Demographic Change Phone:   +49 (0)381 2081-118 Fax:   +49 (0)381 2081-418 Email:   myrskyla@demogr.mpg.de       CV including older publications       download vCard (to save this contact information in Outlook or another software, click here and then click "open")

Projects

• Development and Fertility in Low-fertility Contexts
• Early Life Conditions and Later Life Outcomes: Evidence from Finnish Parish Registers
• Early-Life Socioeconomic Conditions and Cause-specific Mortality in Finland
• Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Later Mortality by Cause
• Fertility and Well-being in a Comparative Perspective
• Innovation Diffusion Models in Demography
• Marital History, Reproductive History, and Mortality
• Parental Age and Adult Health and Mortality of the Offspring
• The Effects of Early and Later Life Mortality Conditions on Age-specific Mortality: A Cohort Analysis
• Weight Status, Weight Change, and Mortality

Publications

• Lynch, J.; Myrskylä, M.:
  Always the third rail? Pension income and policy preferences in European democracies
  Comparative Political Studies, 42:8, 1068-1097 (2009)
• Myrskylä, M.; Chang, V. W.:
  Weight change, initial BMI, and mortality among middle- and older-aged adults
  Epidemiology, 20:6, 840-848 (2009)
• Myrskylä, M.; Kohler, H.-P.; Billari, F. C.:
  Advances in development reverse fertility declines
  Nature, 460:7256, 741-743 (2009)
• Myrskylä, M.:
  Essays on mortality and the life course
  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania (2009)

Education

• PhD in Demography, 2009 (University of Pennsylvania)
• PhD in Statistics, 2007 (University of Helsinki)
• MA in Economics, 2005 (University of Helsinki)