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

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.:

The "double jeopardy" of midlife and old age mortality trends in the United States

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.:

The dangers of drawing cohort profiles from period data: a research note

Demography, 1–10. (2023)       

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

Demography, 1–23. (2023)       

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)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:

US racial/ethnic mortality gap adjusted for population structure

Epidemiology 34:3, 402–410. (2023)    

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Afable, S. B. D.; Evans, M.; Korhonen, K.; Vierboom, Y. C.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Are ageing parents and adult children living farther apart? Decomposing trends in intergenerational distance and co-residence in Finland (2003-2017)

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-011. (2025)    

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Enduring links: mental health effects of ex-partner’s life events among separated parents

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-014. (2025)    

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK

Acta Sociologica, 1–13. (2025)    

Grindstad, T.; Håberg, S. E.; Basso, O.; Hanevik, H. I.; Caspersen, I. H.; Arge, L. A.; Ramlau-Hansen, C. H.; Myrskylä, M.; Magnus, M. C.:

Environmental exposures and fecundability: the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort study

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 263:114492, 1–9. (2025)    

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

Economic uncertainty and men’s fertility: analysing the 2010s fertility decline in Finland by field of education and employment characteristics

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-001. (2025)    

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Afable, S. B. D.; Evans, M.; Korhonen, K.; Vierboom, Y. C.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Are ageing parents and adult children living farther apart? Decomposing trends in intergenerational distance and co-residence in Finland (2003-2017)

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-011. (2025)    

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Enduring links: mental health effects of ex-partner’s life events among separated parents

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-014. (2025)    

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK

Acta Sociologica, 1–13. (2025)    

Grindstad, T.; Håberg, S. E.; Basso, O.; Hanevik, H. I.; Caspersen, I. H.; Arge, L. A.; Ramlau-Hansen, C. H.; Myrskylä, M.; Magnus, M. C.:

Environmental exposures and fecundability: the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort study

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 263:114492, 1–9. (2025)    

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

Economic uncertainty and men’s fertility: analysing the 2010s fertility decline in Finland by field of education and employment characteristics

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-001. (2025)    

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

Economic uncertainty and men’s fertility: analysing the 2010s fertility decline in Finland by field of education and employment characteristics

INVEST working papers 111.2025, Turku. (2025)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Loi, S.:

Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe

Social Science and Medicine 373:117954, 1–10. (2025)    

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

Association between the COVID-19 vaccination campaign and fertility trends: a population-level time series analysis for 22 countries

BMJ Public Health 3:1, 1–8. (2025)    

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Jalovaara, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Parental separation and children’s education - changes over time?

European Journal of Population 41:1, 1–35. (2025)    

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Nisén, J.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Different mental health disorders and childlessness: the importance of partnership status

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-010. (2025)    

Laine, R.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Industry-specific labour demand, post-prison employment and recidivism – evidence from Finland

Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1–21. (2025)    

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Unequal weathering: how immigrants’ health advantage vanishes over the life-course

Journal of Migration and Health 11:100303, 1–11. (2025)    

Peters, S.; Barclay, K. J.; Mynarska, M. A.; Myrskylä, M.:

Consistent patterns across birth parities? Psychological measures and birth parity transitions among Swedish men

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-007. (2025)    

Stonkute, D.; Lorenti, A.; Korhonen, K.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Downstream of hearing loss: a population-based multistate analysis of lifetime risk and years lived with hearing loss, dementia and their comorbidity in Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-019. (2025)    

Trigos-Raczkowski, C.; Wright, K. Q.; Pitkänen, J.; Loi, S.; Martikainen, P.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

First formal romantic unions among 1^st, 2^nd, and 2.5 generations of immigrant women in Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-012. (2025)    

Zai, X.; Li, P.; Dei Bardi, L.; Korhonen, K.; Moretti, M.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Disparities in cancer stage at diagnosis, treatment, and mortality across socioeconomic groups in Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-016. (2025)    

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

Pervasive stagnation: flat and rising cardiovascular disease mortality post-2010 across US states and counties

American Journal of Epidemiology. (2024)    

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

Reply to Polizzi and Dowd: Within-country counterfactual reveals importance of retirement age mortality in addition to established concern about working ages

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121:4, e2320028121–e2320028121. (2024)    

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

Reply to Timonin and Cooley: Varied effects of counterfactuals in 42 countries underscore value of within-country counterfactual

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121:24, e2407918121–e2407918121. (2024)    

Afable, S. B. D.; Vierboom, Y. C.; Evans, M.; Mikolai, J.; Kulu, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

Health decline and residential transitions among older adults in Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-018. (2024)    

Andersen, K.; Wiell Rothausen, K.; Håberg, S. E.; Myrskylä, M.; Ramlau-Hansen, C. H.; Gaml-Sørensen, A.:

Sibling relatedness and pubertal development in girls and boys: a population-based cohort study

Annals of Epidemiology 98, 51–58. (2024)    

Arge, L. A.; Lee, Y.; Skåra, K. H.; Myrskylä, M.; Ramlau-Hansen, C. H.; Håberg, S. E.; Magnus, M. C.:

Epigenetic aging and fecundability: the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study

Human Reproduction 39:12, 2806–2815. (2024)    

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.; Ramlau-Hansen, C. H.; Myrskylä, M.:

Subjective biology: how perceived fecundity influences relationship satisfaction and stability

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

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

Urban–rural disparities in the transition to parenthood during times of uncertainty: a multilevel perspective on Finland

European Journal of Population 40:37, 1–31. (2024)    

Dierker, P.; Gueltzow, M.; Lahtinen, H.; Kühn, M.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Do genetics shape mental health trajectories around partnership transitions?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-033. (2024)    

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Re-partnering and single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories

Journal of Marriage and Family, 1–25. (2024)    

Dierker, P.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Remes, H. M.; Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Kühn, M.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Parental separation risk before and after the diagnosis of a child physical health condition

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-011. (2024)    

Duerst, R.; Schöley, J.; Hellstrand, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Calibrating probabilistic forecast paths on past forecast errors: an application to the Finnish Total Fertility Rate

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-016. (2024)    

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

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)    

Gueltzow, M.; Lahtinen, H.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Genetic propensity to depression and the role of partnership status

Social Science and Medicine 351:116992, 1–8. (2024)    

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

Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019

European Sociological Review, 1–18. (2024)    

Jang, S. Y.; Loi, S.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Oksuzyan, A.; Myrskylä, M.:

Inequalities in multimorbidity between older migrants and natives across Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-003. (2024)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Loi, S.:

Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-032. (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)    

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Moustgaard, H.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Own depression, partner's depression, and childlessness: a nationwide register-based study

Social Science and Medicine 361:117356, 1–12. (2024)    

Lahtinen, H.; Martikainen, P.; Korhonen, K.; Morris, T. T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational tracking and the polygenic prediction of education

Sociological Science 11:8, 186–213. (2024)    

Laine, R.; Aaltonen, M.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course

Journal of Criminal Justice 95:102312, 1–14. (2024)    

Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Cézard, G.; Kulu, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

Inequalities in disability-free and disabling multimorbid life expectancy in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 1–41. (2024)    

Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Kulu, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

Working longer despite poorer health? Inequalities in working and health expectancies at older ages in South Korea

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-022. (2024)    

Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Disease accumulation across birth cohorts in South Korea

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-019. (2024)    

Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socio-economic status, and sex in South Africa

Population Studies, 1–26. (2024)    

Lee, D. S.; Barclay, K. J.; Magnus, M. C.; 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)    

Lee, D. S.; Barclay, K.; Magnus, M. C.; 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

Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2024.53, Stockholm. (2024)    

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

At the intersection of adverse life course pathways: the effects on health by migration status

Demography, 1–22. (2024)    

Lorenti, A.; Nisén, J.; Mencarini, L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Gendered parenthood-employment gaps from midlife: a demographic perspective across three different welfare systems

European Journal of Population 40, 1–26. (2024)    

Magnus, M. C.; Lee, Y.; Carlsen, E. Ø.; Arge, L. A.; Jugessur, A.; Kvalvik, L. G.; Morken, N.; Ramlau-Hansen, C. H.; Myrskylä, M.; Magnus, P.; Håberg, S. E.:

Parental epigenetic age acceleration and risk of adverse birth outcomes: the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study

BMC Medicine 22:554, 1–10. (2024)    

Mäki, M.; Myrskylä, M.; Hägglund, A. E.; Kulathinal, S.; Rotkirch, A.:

The childhood echo: how romantic biographies reflect early life events and abilities

INVEST working papers 91.2024, Turku. (2024)    

Myrskylä, M.; Hellstrand, J.; Lappo, S.; Lorenti, A.; Nisén, J.; Rao, Z.; Tikanmäki, H.:

Declining fertility, human capital investment, and economic sustainability

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-002. (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)    

Pelikh, A.; Smith, K. R.; Myrskylä, M.; Debbink, M. P.; Goisis, A.:

Maternal morbidity and medically assisted reproduction treatment types: evidence from the Utah Population Database

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2024)    

Ponkilainen, M.; Einiö, E.; Pietiläinen, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational differences in fertility among female same-sex couples in Finland

Demography 61:6, 2053–2079. (2024)    

Preston, S.; Vierboom, Y. C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Socio-behavioral factors contributing to recent mortality trends in the United States

Demographic Research 51:7, 191–214. (2024)    

Todd, N.; Myrskylä, M.:

Projection of US adult obesity trends based on individual BMI trajectories

Demographic Research 51:13, 425–458. (2024)    

van Raalte, A. A.; Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

Response to Carl Schmertmann Commentary—Drawing Cohort Profiles From Period Data: Improvements and Risks [Commentary]

Demography 61:4, 973–977. (2024)    

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

The "double jeopardy" of midlife and old age mortality trends in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:42, e2308360120–e2308360120. (2023)    

Aradhya, S.; Tegunimataka, A.; Kravdal, Ø.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Barclay, K. J.; Goisis, A.:

Maternal age and the risk of low birthweight and pre-term delivery: a pan-Nordic comparison

International Journal of Epidemiology 52:1, 156–164. (2023)    

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)    

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

A spatial perspective on the unexpected Nordic fertility decline: the relevance of economic and social contexts

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 16:1, 1–31. (2023)    

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

Future fertility scenarios in Finland: a computational forecasting approach

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

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Re-partnering and single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-001. (2023)    

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

Demography, 1–23. (2023)    

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

How long do older Germans work?

N-IUSSP, Florence. (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)    

Gueltzow, M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

The role of labor market inequalities in explaining the gender gap in depression risk among older US adults

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-003. (2023)    

Gueltzow, M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

The role of labor market inequalities in explaining the gender gap in depression risk among older US adults

Social Science and Medicine 332:116100, 1–9. (2023)    

Gueltzow, M.; Lahtinen, H.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Genetic susceptibility to depression and the role of partnership status

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-049. (2023)    

Gültzow, M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

The role of labor market inequalities in the gender gap in depression risk among older US adults

European Journal of Public Health 33:Suppl. 2, ii348–ii349. (2023)    

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

Intersectionality and opportunity-weighted cumulative (dis)advantage

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-040. (2023)    

Jang, S. Y.; Myrskylä, M.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.; Oksuzyan, A.:

Living arrangements and the speed of chronic disease accumulation among older migrants and natives

European Journal of Public Health 33:Suppl. 2, ii134–ii134. (2023)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; Myrskylä, M.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.:

Healthy immigrants, unhealthy ageing? Analysis of health decline among older migrants and natives across European countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-024. (2023)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; Myrskylä, M.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.:

Healthy immigrants, unhealthy ageing? Analysis of health decline among older migrants and natives across European countries

SSM-Population Health 23:101478, 1–11. (2023)    

Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Multimorbidity patterns in older migrants and natives across Europe

European Journal of Public Health 33:Suppl. 2, ii314–ii314. (2023)    

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Jalovaara, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Parental separation and children’s education – changes over time?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-036. (2023)    

Lahtinen, H.; Martikainen, P.; Korhonen, K.; Morris, T. T.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational tracking and the polygenic prediction of education

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-015. (2023)    

Laine, R.; Aaltonen, M.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-037. (2023)    

Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Cezard, G.; Kulu, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

Inequalities in disability-free and disabling multimorbid life expectancy in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-002. (2023)    

Li, P.; Hu, Y.; Scelo, G.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Pre-existing psychological disorders, diabetes, and pancreatic cancer: a population-based study of 38,952 Finns

Cancer Epidemiology 82:102307, 1–8. (2023)

Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Disparities in quality of life among European cancer survivors aged 50 and over

European Journal of Public Health 22:Suppl. 2, ii642–ii642. (2023)    

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Immigrant-native health disparities: an intersectional perspective on the weathering hypothesis

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-005. (2023)    

Lorenti, A.; Nisén, J.; Mencarini, L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Gendered parenthood-employment gaps in midlife: a demographic perspective across three different welfare systems

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-013. (2023)    

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

Trends in cognitive impairment among older adults in the USA and Europe, 1996-2018

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-044. (2023)    

Myrskylä, M.; Santavirta, T.:

Look at your old men dying: long-run effect of civil war on mortality

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-045. (2023)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:

US racial/ethnic mortality gap adjusted for population structure

Epidemiology 34:3, 402–410. (2023)

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Andrade Santacruz , J. C.; Myrskylä, M.:

An overlapping cohorts perspective of lifespan inequality

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-046. (2023)    

Preston, S. H.; Vierboom, Y. C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Socio-behavioral factors contributing to recent mortality trends in the United States

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-019. (2023)    

Schneider, D. C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Statistical inference for discrete-time multistate models: extensions to Markov Chains with rewards

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-042. (2023)    

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

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

Population Studies, 1–15. (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)    

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

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

Demography, 1–25. (2023)    

Sharma, S.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Racial, ethnic, nativity, and educational disparities in cognitive impairment and activity limitations in the United States, 1998–2016

Demography 60:5, 1441–1468. (2023)    

Sharma, S.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education

Population Studies, 1–11. (2023)    

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

Birth size, school performance and family social position: a study of 650,000 children

Pediatric Research, 1–10. (2023)    

van Raalte, A. A.; Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

The dangers of drawing cohort profiles from period data: a research note

Demography, 1–10. (2023)    

Acosta, E.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.; Ebeling, M.:

Cardiovascular mortality gap between the United States and other high life expectancy countries in 2000–2016

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 77:Suppl. 2, S148–S157. (2022)    

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

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

Population Studies, 1–16. (2022)    

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

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

Population and Development Review 48:1, 189–215. (2022)    

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

SSRN research paper series 4109037. unpublished. (2022)    

Gültzow, M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

The contribution of health behaviors to depression risk across birth cohorts

Epidemiology 33:6, 880–889. (2022)    

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

Understanding cognitive impairment in the U.S. through the lenses of intersectionality and (un)conditional cumulative (dis)advantage

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-029. (2022)    

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

Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-022. (2022)    

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

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

European Journal of Population 38:2, 191–221. (2022)    

Laine, R.; Myrskylä, M.; Kaskela, T.; Pitkänen, T.:

Imprisonment, community sanctions and mortality by cause of death among patients with substance use disorder – a 28-year follow-up using Finnish register data

Drug and Alcohol Dependence 232:109327, 1–9. (2022)    

Lam, A. A.; Keenan, K.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socioeconomic status, and gender in South Africa

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-024. (2022)    

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

At the intersection of adverse life course pathways: the effects on health by nativity

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-018. (2022)    

Mäki, M.; Hägglund, A. E.; Rotkirch, A.; Kulathinal, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Stable marital histories predict happiness and health across educational groups

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-035. (2022)    

Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

An introduction to the supplemental issue on why does health in the US continue to lag behind

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77:Supplement_2, S113–S116. (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)    

Pelikh, A.; Smith, K. R.; Myrskylä, M.; Goisis, A.:

Medically assisted reproduction treatment types and birth outcomes: a between-family and within-family analysis

Obstetrics & Gynecology 139:2, 211–222. (2022)    

Ponkilainen, M.; Einiö, E.; Pietiläinen, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational differences in fertility among female same-sex couples

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-030. (2022)    

Sharma, S.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:

Disparities in the population burden of joint cognitive and physical impairment in the US, 1998-2016

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-001. (2022)    

Todd, N.; Myrskylä, M.:

Projection of US adult obesity trends based on individual BMI trajectories

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-034. (2022)    

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

The growing rural-urban divide in U.S. life expectancy: contribution of cardiovascular disease and other major causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology 50:6, 1970–1978. (2021)    

Batyra, E.; Leone, T.; Myrskylä, M.:

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

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-011. (2021)    

Bohk-Ewald, C.; Acosta, E.; Riffe, T.; Dudel, C.; Myrskylä, M.:

Magnitude, global variation, and temporal development of the COVID-19 infection fatality burden

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-024. (2021)    

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)    

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-018. (2021)    

Goisis, A.; Myrskylä, M.:

Well-being of children born after medically assisted reproduction

Die Gynäkologie 54:12, 917–921. (2021)    

Gueltzow, M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.:

The contribution of health behaviors to depression risk across birth cohorts

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-017. (2021)    

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

Rejoinder to "The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment Is Not Increasing in the United States: A Critique of Hale et al. (2020)"

Epidemiology 32:5, 717–720. (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 58:4, 1373–1399. (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 58:5, 1655–1685. (2021)    

Myrskylä, M.:

Maternal age

In: Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science, 4908–4910. Cham: Springer. (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)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; Dudel, C.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.:

U.S. racial/ethnic mortality gap adjusted for population structure

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-023. (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)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; Myrskylä, M.:

Additional information for the analysis of optimal vaccination age across countries

MPIDR Technical Report TR-2021-001. (2021)    

Pifarré i Arolas, H.; Acosta, E.; Myrskylä, M.:

Optimal vaccination age varies across countries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118:29, e2105987118–e2105987118. (2021)    

Riffe, T.; Acosta, E.; Aburto, J. M.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Altová, A.; Alustiza Galarza, A.; Basellini, U.; Bignami-Van Assche, 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-Crisóstomo, M.; Garcia-Guerrero, V. M.; González-Diaz, A.; Hecker, I.; Koba, D. E.; Kolobova, M.; Kühn, M.; Lépori, M.; Liu, C.; Lozer, A.; Manea, M.-E.; Marey, L.; Masum, M.; Mogi, R.; Monicolle, C.; 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. D.; Piriz, M.; Pollero, R.; Qanni, L.; Rehermann, F.; Ribeiro, F.; Rizzi, S.; Rowe, F.; Sarhan, A. R.; Sasson, I.; Shomron, E.; Shi, J.; Silva-Ramirez, R.; Strozza, C.; Torres, C.; Trias-Llimos, S.; Uchikoshi, F.; van Raalte, A. A.; Vazquez-Castillo, P.; Vilela, E.; Waqar, M. A.; Williams, I.; Zarulli, V.:

Data resource profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths

International Journal of Epidemiology 50:2, 390–390f. (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)    

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

mcwr: an R package to calculate Markov chains with rewards

Software. (2021)

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

mcwr: a Stata package to calculate Markov chains with rewards

Software. (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 58:1, 111–135. (2021)    

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

Work-family typologies and mental health among women in early working ages

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-015. (2021)    

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

Life-long body mass index trajectories and mortality in two generations

Annals of Epidemiology 56, 18–25. (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)    

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

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

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (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 49:6, 1963–1971. (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)    

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)    

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 75:7, 1504–1514. (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

PLOS One 15:9, e0238904–e0238904. (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 74:3, 315–329. (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 older ages: the role of childhood circumstances and education

Social Science Research 91:102447, 1–17. (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)    

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 49:3, 896–907. (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)    

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-Van Assche, 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.-E.; 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, e2342–e2342. (2020)    

Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Barclay, K. J.; Costa-i-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. 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)    

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. 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)    

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. 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)    

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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