Publications

MPIDR Working Papers and Preprints

since 2025 2011–2024 1996–2010 all

Barron, B.; Hall, M.; Rich, P.; Cohen, I.; Arias, T.:

When all measures fail the same way: a fundamental correction to American segregation trends

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-016. (2026)

Dierker, P.; Skirbekk, V. F.:

Grandparenthood related to reduced risk of gray divorce: evidence from 15 countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-015. (2026)

Pojman, E.; Hong, C.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Queer family matters: estimates of queer kinship in the United States

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-014. (2026)

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

Nearby children, longer lives? Evidence from the Finnish population register

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-013. (2026)

Fernández Soto, M.; Escoto, A.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.:

The role of kinship networks in childcare at birth: evidence from three Latin American countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-012. (2026)

Kannankeril Joseph, V. J.:

Growing up in a warming world: temperature and child health in India

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-011. (2026)

Dierker, P.; Ophir, A.; Hiekel, N.:

From dating to marriage: changes in short-term fertility intentions across partnership transitions

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-010. (2026)

Akbaritabar, A.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Zagheni, E.:

Internationally mobile researchers contribute to scientific production far beyond their share in the population

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-009. (2026)

Hiilamo, A.; Sedovic , M.; Kailaheimo-Björkqvist , S.; Villadsen , A.; Ploubidis, G.B.; Myrskylä, M.:

Patterns of childhood internalising and externalising symptoms and lifetime fertility in the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-008. (2026)

Wright, K. Q.; Şanlitürk, A. E.; Mann, E. S.:

Ideology over evidence: pronatalist media discourse and its (dis)connection from U.S. fertility trends

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-007. (2026)

Schlueter, B.; Bruno, S.; Alexander, M. J.:

A Bayesian parametric model to estimate and reconstruct male age-specific fertility rates

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-006. (2026)

Schlueter, B.; Root, L.; Alexander, M. J.:

Trends and patterns in childlessness by age, race, ethnicity, and education in the United States: a research note

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-005. (2026)

Neville, R.; Anastasiadou, A.:

Gender dynamics in international student mobility: the case of the United Kingdom

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-004. (2026)

Tsai, C.-J.:

Self-protection or “othering” discrimination? How information sources link perceived threats and avoidance behaviors toward immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-003. (2026)

Bister, L.; Dierker, P.:

Parental separation and the accumulation of stress during early life: a pubertal development marker approach

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-002. (2026)

Hiilamo, A.; Fugletveit , R.; Pitkänen, J.; Moretti, M.; Martikainen, P.; Hermansen, Å.; Myrskylä, M.:

Children´s out-of-home care across Finnish and Norwegian regions: lifetime risks, expected length, and care leaving routes for synthetic cohorts

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-001. (2026)

Breen, C. F.; Bailey, M.; Rivera, V.; Zagheni, E.; Redmiles, E.:

Evidence of a migration preparatory phase in global social network data

SocArXiv papers. unpublished. (2026)

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

TwoTimeScales: an R-package for smoothing hazards with two time scales

arXiv e-prints 2603.13009. unpublished. (2026)

Colasurdo, A.; Mulder, C. H.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The role of migration history and household structure in internal migration: evidence from the Netherlands, 1850-1940

SocArxiv papers. unpublished. (2026)

Dowd, J. B.; Schöley, J.; Polizzi, A.; Aburto, J. M.; Jaadla, H.; Lei, H.; Kashyap, R.:

Temporary shock or lasting scar? Life expectancy trajectories since COVID-19

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2026)

Kniffka, M. S.; Ullrich-Kniffka, N.; Bertens, L. C. M.; Been, J. V.; Lee, D. S.; Koenigbauer, J. T.; Goepfrich, A.; Schöley, J.:

Changing spatial access to obstetric care in Germany from 2014 to 2024

medRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2026)

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

Who moves where? A family ties perspective on later-life health decline and residential mobility in Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-037. (2025)

Marinetti, I.; Jdanov, D. A.; Meslé, F.; Jasilionis, D.; Janssen, F.:

Analysis of intra-annual mortality fluctuations by cause of death in Italy

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-036. (2025)

Hiilamo, A.; Oberndorfer, M.:

Partial basic income has positive and no heterogenous effects on mental health – An analysis of the Finnish basic income randomized experiment among people in unemployment

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-035. (2025)

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Myrskylä, M.:

From early to fewer first births: ADHD and family formation among young adults

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-034. (2025)

Miranda, M. L.; Basellini, U.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.:

How period life expectancy can distort our interpretation of mortality crises

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-033. (2025)

Vasiakina, M.; Dudel, C.:

The hidden costs of technological change: investigating pathways through which highly automatable jobs undermine workers’ health in Germany

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-032. (2025)

John, B. M.; Yeatman , S.:

Marital dissolution, repartnering, and the realization of fertility desires in Sub-Saharan Africa

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-031. (2025)

Rao, Z.; Hellstrand, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational tracking and fertility

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-030. (2025)

Hellstrand, J.; Andersson, L.; Dommermuth, L.; Fallesen, P.; Jónsson, A. K.; Jalovaara, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Growing divergences: a research note forecasting ultimate childlessness by education in the Nordic countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-029. (2025)

Rottenkolber, A.; Ali, O.; Mónus, G.; Li, J.; Kim, J.; Perrotta, D.; Akbaritabar, A.:

It's who you know — unless you’re famous: professional networks and prestige in scholarly mobility

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-028. (2025)

Vasiakina, M.; Dudel, C.:

The glass is half empty: the role of highly automatable jobs in shaping drinking behaviors in Russia

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-027. (2025)

Bassoli, E.; Eibich, P.; Zai, E.:

The mental health consequences of spousal bereavement

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-026. (2025)

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

Subnational birth squeezes: male-female TFR differences across eight high- and middle-income countries over time

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-025. (2025)

Jiang, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Chung, P. H.; Alexander, M. J.:

Measuring kinship dependency: a cross-national comparison across care regimes

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-024. (2025)

Ponkilainen, M.; Einiö, E.; Kolk, M.; Fallesen, P.; Torvik, F. A.; Andersen, M. L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Changing landscapes of parenthood: childbearing among same-sex and different-sex couples in the Nordic countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-023. (2025)

Rowold, C.; Gädecke, M.; Van Winkle, Z.:

Rethinking children’s family complexity: a multi-conceptual approach with dynamic sequence analysis and fixed effects models

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-022. (2025)

Jiang, S.; Liang, H.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Human capital investment helps mitigate family caregiving challenges in aging China

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-021. (2025)

Calderón-Bernal, L. P.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing the agreement between microsimulated and register-based kin counts in Sweden

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-020. (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)

Kannankeril Joseph, V. J.; Conte Keivabu, R.; Muttarak, R.; Zagheni, E.; Mazzuco, S.:

Harvesting effect and extreme temperature-related mortality in Italy

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-018. (2025)

Feraldi, A.; Dudel, C.:

Smoking and the length of working life: an examination using the U.S. health and retirement study

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-017. (2025)

Shi, S.; Loi, S.:

Loneliness as a pathway to immigrant health decline: a longitudinal mediation analysis in Germany

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-015. (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)

Marinetti, I.; Jdanov, D. A.; Jasilionis, D.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Janssen, F.:

Seasonal mortality and its impact on spatial inequality in life expectancy across Italy

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-013. (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)

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)

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)

Stonkute, D.; Lorenti, A.; Hale, J. M.:

Institutional contexts and cognitive health inequalities: an analysis of educational gradients and gender differences in cognitive health expectancy in Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-009. (2025)

Wu, M.; Loi, S.; Lee, D. S.; del Rey Poveda, A.:

Bridging the gap? The moderating role of non-parental childcare use in the gap in maternal employment between immigrants and non-immigrants

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-008. (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)

Hiilamo, A.; Hermansen, Å.:

Financial strain in Norway: the lifetime risk of and expected time spent in payment problems

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-006. (2025)

Tyagi, R.; Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Gugushvili, A.:

Adult children’s unemployment and parental mental health in India: social and economic moderators

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-005. (2025)

Akbaritabar, A.; Carrasco Armijo, J. I.; Anastasiadou, A.:

Gender dynamics in international migration and social networks

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-004. (2025)

Adhikari, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

The future of grandparenthood in South Asia: the role of population aging and educational expansion

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-003. (2025)

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Van Winkle, Z.:

The role of family complexity in mental and physical health in mid-adulthood

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2025-002. (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)

Abrams, L. R.; Jiang, S.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Acosta, E.; Zagheni, E.:

Adverse mortality trends have increased the number bereaved in the United States