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

Mikko Myrskylä

Mikko Myrskylä is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Helsinki. He joined the MPIDR from the London School of Economics where he served as Professor of Demography, and where he was working as Research Professor and led a research group funded by the European Research Council until 2019. Professor Myrskylä holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Helsinki. His work focuses on population health, analysis of contemporary fertility trends, and demographic forecasting.

MPIDR Publications

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Goisis, A.; Remes, H.; 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)

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)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working life expectancy at age 50 in the US and the impact of the Great Recession

Demography 54:6, 2101–2123. (2017)       

Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

The population health benefits of a healthy lifestyle: life expectancy increased and onset of disability delayed

Health Affairs 36:8, 1495–1502. (2017)

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)    

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Castro Torres, A. F.; Batyra, E.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income inequality and increasing dispersion of the transition to first birth in the Global South

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-009. (2021)    

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

Demography. accepted. (2021)    

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

Less partnering, less children, or both? Analysis of the drivers of first-birth decline in Finland since 2010?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-008. (2021)    

Loi, S.; Pitkänen, J.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Health of immigrant children: the role of immigrant generation, exogamous family setting, and family material and social resources

Demography. accepted. (2021)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; López-Casasnovas, G.; Lo, A.; Nicodemo, C.; Riffe, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries

Scientific Reports 11:3504, 1–6. (2021)    

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Castro Torres, A. F.; Batyra, E.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income inequality and increasing dispersion of the transition to first birth in the Global South

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-009. (2021)    

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

Demography. accepted. (2021)    

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

Less partnering, less children, or both? Analysis of the drivers of first-birth decline in Finland since 2010?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-008. (2021)    

Loi, S.; Pitkänen, J.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Health of immigrant children: the role of immigrant generation, exogamous family setting, and family material and social resources

Demography. accepted. (2021)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; López-Casasnovas, G.; Lo, A.; Nicodemo, C.; Riffe, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries

Scientific Reports 11:3504, 1–6. (2021)    

Schneider, D. C.; Myrskylä, M.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Flexible transition timing in discrete-time multistate life tables using Markov chains with rewards

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-002. (2021)    

Stelter, R.; De la Croix, D.; Myrskylä, M.:

Leaders and laggards in life expectancy among European scholars from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century

Demography. accepted. (2021)

Barbuscia, A.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Remes, H.; 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)    

Bohk-Ewald, C.; Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

A demographic scaling model for estimating the total number of COVID-19 infections

International Journal of Epidemiology. accepted. (2020)    

Bohk-Ewald, C.; Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

A demographic scaling model for estimating the total number of COVID-19 infections

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)    

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

A spatial perspective on the Nordic fertility decline: the role of economic and social uncertainty in fertility trends

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-036. (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)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Estimating the number and length of episodes in disability using a Markov chain approach

Population Health Metrics 18:15, 1–9. (2020)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Cohort trends in working life expectancies at age 50 in the United States: a register-based study using social security administration data

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 1–30. (2020)    

Dudel, C.; Riffe, T.; Acosta, E.; van Raalte, A. A.; Strozza, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Monitoring trends and differences in COVID-19 case-fatality rates using decomposition methods: contributions of age structure and age-specific fatality

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-020. (2020)    

Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Gampe, J.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Trends in the risk of cognitive impairment in the U.S., 1996-2014

Epidemiology 31:5, 745–754. (2020)    

Hale, J. M.; Schneider, D. C.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Cognitive impairment in the U.S.: lifetime risk, age at onset, and years impaired

SSM-Population Health 11:100577, 1–9. (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, 1–15. (2020)    

Hu, Y.; Leinonen, T.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Changes in socioeconomic differences in hospital days with age: cumulative disadvantage, age-as-leveler, or both?

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 75:6, 1336–1347. (2020)    

Klüsener, S.; Schneider, R.; Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, M.; Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Sander, N.; Backhaus, A.; Del Fava, E.; Esins, J.; Fischer, M.; Grabenhenrich, L.; Grigoriev, P.; Grow, A.; Hilton, J. D.; Koller, B.; Myrskylä, M.; Scalone, F.; Wolkewitz, M.; Zagheni, E.; Resch, M. M.:

Forecasting intensive care unit demand during the COVID-19 pandemic: a spatial age-structured microsimulation model

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)    

Lorenti, A.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working and disability expectancies at old ages: the role of childhood circumstances and education

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-006. (2020)    

Lorenti, A.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working and disability expectancies at older ages: the role of childhood circumstances and education

Social Science Research 91, 1–17. (2020)    

Martikainen, P.; Elo, I. T.; Tarkiainen, L.; Mikkonen, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Moustgaard, H.:

The changing contribution of childhood social characteristics to mortality: a comparison of Finnish cohorts born in 1936–50 and 1961–75

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1–12. (2020)    

Mehta, N. K.; Abrams, L. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

US life expectancy stalls due to cardiovascular disease, not drug deaths

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:13, 6998–7000. (2020)    

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

Hedelmällisyys ja siihen vaikuttavat tekijät Suomessa lähivuosikymmeninä

Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 85:4, 358–369. (2020)    

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 2020:Online First, 1–33. (2020)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; Casasnovas, G. L.; Lo, A.; Nicodemo, C.; Riffe, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Global years of life lost to COVID-19

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)    

Riffe, T.; Acosta, E.; Aburto, J. M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Altová, A.; Bignami, S.; Breton, D.; Choi, E.; Cimentada, J.; De Armas, G.; Del Fava, E.; Delgado, A.; Diaconu, V.; Donzowa, J.; Dudel, C.; Fröhlich, A.; Gagnon, A.; Garcia Cristómo, M.; Garcia-Guerrero, V. M.; González-Díaz, A.; Hecker, I.; Koba, D. E.; Kolobova, M.; Kühn, M.; Liu, C.; Lozer, A.; Manea, M.; Masum, M.; Mogi, R.; Morwinsky, S.; Musizvingoza, R.; Myrskylä, M.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Nickel, M.; Nitsche, N.; Oksuzyan, A.; Oladele, S.; Olamijuwon, E.; Omodara, O.; Ouedraogo, S.; Paredes, M.; Pascariu, M.; Piriz, M.; Pollero, R.; Rehermann, F.; Ribeiro, F.; Rizzi, S.; Rowe, F.; Sasson, I.; Shi, J.; Silva-Ramirez, R.; Strozza, C.; Torres, C.; Trias-Llimos, S.; Uchikoshi, F.; van Raalte, A. A.; Vazquez-Castillo, P.; Vilela, E.; Williams, I.; Zarulli, V.:

COVerAGE-DB: a database of age-structured COVID-19 cases and deaths

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-032. (2020)    

Stelter, R.; De la Croix, D.; Myrskylä, M.:

Leaders and laggards in life expectancy among European scholars from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-030. (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. (2020)    

Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Barclay, K. J.; Costa-Font, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Özcan, B.:

Preterm births and educational disadvantage: heterogeneous effects across families and schools

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-016. (2019)    

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)    

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

The impact of unemployment on antidepressant purchasing: adjusting for unobserved time-constant confounding in the g-formula

Epidemiology 30:3, 388–395. (2019)    

Bijwaard, G. E.; Tynelius, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Education, cognitive ability, and cause-specific mortality: a structural approach

Population Studies 73:2, 217–232. (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.; 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)    

Hu, Y.; Leinonen, T.; van Hedel, K.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

The relationship between living arrangements and higher use of hospital care at middle and older ages: to what extent do observed and unobserved individual characteristics explain this association?

BMC Public Health 19:1011, 1–13. (2019)    

Loi, S.; Pitkänen, J.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Health of immigrant children: the role of immigrant generation, exogamous family setting, and family material and social resources

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-009. (2019)    

Lorenti, A.; Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

The legacy of the Great Recession in Italy: a wider geographical, gender, and generational gap in working life expectancy

Social Indicators Research 142:1, 283–303. (2019)    

Mehta, N. K.; Zheng, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

How do age and major risk factors for mortality interact over the life-course? Implications for health disparities research and public health policy

SSM-Population Health 8:100438, 1–10. (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)    

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.; Wilson, B.; Myrskylä, M.:

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

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

Dudel, C.; López Gómez, M. A.; Benavides, F. G.; Myrskylä, M.:

The length of working life in Spain: levels, recent trends, and the impact of the financial crisis

European Journal of Population 34:5, 769–791. (2018)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

How long do older Americans work?

N-IUSSP, Paris. (2018)    

Goisis, A.; Remes, H.; 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)    

Leinonen, T.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working life and retirement expectancies at age 50 by social class: period and cohort trends and projections for Finland

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 73:2, 302–313. (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)    

van Hedel, K.; Martikainen, P.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

Cohabitation and mental health: is psychotropic medication use more common in cohabitation than marriage?

SSM-Population Health 4, 244–253. (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)    

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

Birth order and college major in Sweden

Social Forces 96:2, 629–660. (2017)    

Bijlsma, M. J.; Tarkiainen, L.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Unemployment and subsequent depression: a mediation analysis using the parametric G-formula

Social Science and Medicine 194, 142–150. (2017)    

Bijwaard, G. E.; Myrskylä, M.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

Educational gain in cause-specific mortality: accounting for confounders

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-003. (2017)    

Bijwaard, G. E.; Myrskylä, M.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

Educational gains in cause-specific mortality: accounting for cognitive ability and family-level confounders using propensity score weighting

Social Science and Medicine 184, 49–56. (2017)    

Díaz-Venegas, C.; Schneider, D. C.; Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N. K.:

Life expectancy with and without cognitive impairment by diabetes status among older Americans

PLoS One 12:12, e0190488–e0190488. (2017)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working life expectancy at age 50 in the US and the impact of the Great Recession

Demography 54:6, 2101–2123. (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.; 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)    

Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

The population health benefits of a healthy lifestyle: life expectancy increased and onset of disability delayed

Health Affairs 36:8, 1495–1502. (2017)

Myrskylä, M.:

Bessere Aussichten für zarte Babys

Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand 14:1, 4–4. (2017)    

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

Advantages of later motherhood

Der Gynäkologe 50:10, 767–772. (2017)    

Vogt, T. C.; van Raalte, A. A.; Grigoriev, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

The German East-West mortality difference: two crossovers driven by smoking

Demography 54:3, 1051–1071. (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)    

Arslan, R. C.; Willführ, K. P.; Frans, E. M.; Verweij, K. J. H.; 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

bioRxiv papers 042788. unpublished. (2016)    

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.:

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.:

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.:

Parental age and offspring mortality: negative effects of reproductive aging are outweighed by secular increases in longevity

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-011. (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)    

Bijwaard, G. E.; Myrskylä, M.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

Education, cognitive ability and cause-specific mortality: a structural approach

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-007. (2016)    

Dudel, C.; López Gómez, M. A.; Benavides, F. G.; Myrskylä, M.:

A lost generation? The financial crisis and the length of working life in Spain

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-010. (2016)    

Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Recent trends in US working life expectancy at age 50 by gender, education, and race/ethnicity and the impact of the Great Recession

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-006. (2016)    

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Children's sex and the happiness of parents

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

Vogt, T. C.; van Raalte, A. A.; Grigoriev, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

German East-West mortality difference: two cross-overs driven by smoking

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-004. (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)

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

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2015-010. (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)

van Raalte, A. A.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

The role of smoking on mortality compression: an analysis of Finnish occupational social classes, 1971-2010

Demographic Research 32:20, 589–620. (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)    

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

Socioeconomic status across the life course and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Finland

Social Science and Medicine 119, 198–206. (2014)

Martikainen, P.; Mäkelä, P.; Peltonen, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income differences in life expectancy: the changing contribution of harmful consumption of alcohol and smoking

Epidemiology 25:2, 182–190. (2014)

Moustgaard, H.; Joutsenniemi, K.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Antidepressant sales and the risk for alcohol-related and non-alcohol-related suicide in Finland: an individual-level population study

PLoS One 9:6 , e98405–e98405. (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.; Gagnon, A.; Bengtsson, T.:

Pathways to health and well-being

Social Science and Medicine 119, 175–179. (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)

Torre, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income inequality and population health: an analysis of panel data for 21 developed countries, 1975–2006

Population Studies 68:1, 1–13. (2014)

van Raalte, A. A.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Lifespan variation by occupational class: compression or stagnation over time?

Demography 51:1, 73–95. (2014)

Willführ, K. P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Disease load at conception predicts survival in later epidemics in a historical French-Canadian cohort, suggesting functional trans-generational effects in humans

PLoS One 9:4, e93868–e93868. (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)

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life satisfaction over the life course

Advances in Life Course Research 18:2, 115–126. (2013)

Myrskylä, M.:

Commentary: Maternal education accentuates girls’ mortality advantage over boys’

International Journal of Epidemiology 42:1, 219–220. (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.; Leinonen, T.; Martikainen, P.:

Life expectancy by labor force status and social class: recent period and cohort trends and projections for Finland

Finnish Centre for Pensions working papers 02/2013, Helsinki. (2013)

Myrskylä, M.; Margolis, R.:

Parental benefits improve parental well-being: evidence from a 2007 policy change in Germany

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2013-010. (2013)    

Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N. K.; Chang, V. W.:

Early life exposure to the 1918 influenza Pandemic and old-age mortality by cause of death

American Journal of Public Health 103:7, e83–e90. (2013)

Myrskylä, M.; Scholz, R. D.:

Reversing East-West mortality difference among German women, and the role of smoking

International Journal of Epidemiology 42:2, 549–558. (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)

Willführ, K. P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Disease load at conception predicts survival in later epidemics in a historical French-Canadian cohort, suggesting functional epigenetic imprinting

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2013-015. (2013)    

Willführ, K. P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Phenotype-environment mismatch due to epigenetic inheritance? Programming the offspring's epigenome and the consequences of migration

American Journal of Human Biology 25:3, 318–328. (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)

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-012. (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.; Margolis, R.:

Happiness: before and after the kids

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-013. (2012)    

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

Bayesian forecasting of cohort fertility

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-003. (2012)    

Thai, T. Q.; Myrskylä, M.:

Rainfall shocks, parental behavior and breastfeeding: evidence from rural Vietnam

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-009. (2012)    

van Raalte, A. A.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Lifespan variation by occupational class: compression or stagnation over time?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-010. (2012)    

Fox, J. F.; Myrskylä, M.:

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

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2011-018. (2011)    

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

A global perspective on happiness and fertility

Population and Development Review 37:1, 29–56. (2011)

Myrskylä, M.; Fenelon, A. T.:

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

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2011-009. (2011)    

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)    

Torre, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income inequality and population health: a panel data analysis on 21 developed countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2011-006. (2011)    

Margolis, R.; Myrskylä, M.:

A global perspective on happiness and fertility

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2010-025. (2010)    

Myrskylä, M.:

The relative effects of shocks in early- and later-life conditions on mortality

Population and Development Review 36:4, 803–829. (2010)

Myrskylä, M.:

The relative importance of shocks in a cohort's early and later life conditions on age-specific mortality

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2010-009. (2010)    

Myrskylä, M.:

Elämme toistakymmentä vuotta elinajanodotetta pidempään

Tieto&Trendit, 16–22. (2010)

Myrskylä, M.:

The effects of shocks in early life mortality on later life expectancy and mortality compression: a cohort analysis

Demographic Research 22:12, 289–320. (2010)

Myrskylä, M.; Goldstein, J. R.:

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

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2010-013. (2010)    

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.:

Essays on mortality and the life course

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. (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)

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