Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Publications

Barclay, K. J.; Smith, K. R.:
Birth spacing and health and socioeconomic outcomes across the life course: evidence from the Utah Population Database
Demography. accepted. (2022)    
Gardner, E. J.; Neville, M. D. C.; Samocha, K. E.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.; Niemi, M. E. K.; Kirov, G.; Martin, H. C.; Hurles, M. E.:
Reduced reproductive success is associated with selective constraint on human genes
Nature, 1–20. (2022)
Keenan, K.; Barclay, K. J.; Goisis, A.:
Health outcomes of only children across the life course: an investigation using Swedish register data​
Population Studies. forthcoming. (2022)    
Barclay, K. J.; Lyngstad, T. H.; Conley, D.:
The production of inequalities within families and across generations: the intergenerational effects of birth order on educational attainment
European Sociological Review 37:4, 607–625. (2021)    
Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:
Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967
Intelligence 84. (2021)    
Mogi, R.; Nisén, J.; Canudas-Romo, V.:
Cross-sectional average length of life childless
Demography 58:1, 321–344. (2021)    
Wood, J.; Marynissen, L.; Nisén, J.; Fallesen, P.; Neels, K.; Trimarchi, A.; Dommermuth, L.; Van Gaalen, R.; Kolk, M.; Martikainen, P.:
Regional variation in women’s education-fertility nexus in Northern and Western Europe
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-021. (2021)    
Barbuscia, A.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Remes, H.; Somigliana, E.; Klemetti, R.; Goisis, A.:
Maternal age and risk of low birth weight and premature birth in children conceived through medically assisted reproduction: evidence from Finnish population registers
Human Reproduction 35:1, 212–220. (2020)    
Barclay, K. J.; Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Kolk, M.; Ivarsson, A.:
Interpregnancy intervals and perinatal and child health in Sweden: a comparison within families and across social groups
Population Studies 74:3, 363–378. (2020)    
Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
The influence of health in early adulthood on male fertility
Population and Development Review 46:4, 757–785. (2020)    
Bijlsma, M. J.; Wilson, B.:
Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society/A 183:2, 493–513. (2020)    
Campisi, N.; Kulu, H.; Mikolai, J.; Klüsener, S.; Myrskylä, M.:
Spatial variation in fertility across Europe: patterns and determinants
Population, Space and Place 26:4, e2308–e2308. (2020)    
Castro Torres, A. F.:
Analysis of Latin American fertility change in terms of probable social classes
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-001. (2020)    
Dudel, C.; Cheng, Y. A.; Klüsener, S.:
The unexplored parental age gap in an era of fertility postponement
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-018. (2020)    
Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:
Male-female fertility differentials across 17 high-income countries: insights from a new data resource
European Journal of Population. forthcoming. (2020)    
Gardner, E. J.; Neville, M. D. C.; Samocha, K. E.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.; Niemi, M. E. K.; Kirov, G.; Martin, H. C.; Hurles, M. E.:
Sex-biased reduction in reproductive success drives selective constraint on human genes
bioRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)    
Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Miranda, V.; Fallesen, P.; Dommermuth, L.; Myrskylä, M.:
Not just later, but fewer: novel trends in cohort fertility in the Nordic countries
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-007. (2020)    
Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Myrskylä, M.:
All-time low period fertility in Finland: demographic drivers, tempo effects, and cohort implications
Population Studies, 1–15. (2020)    
Keenan, K.; Barclay, K. J.; Goisis, A.:
Health outcomes of only children across the life course: an investigation using Swedish register data
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-004. (2020)    
Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:
Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-010. (2020)    
Lerch, M.:
The emergence and diffusion of birth limitation in urban areas of developing countries
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-014. (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)    
Nitsche, N.; Hayford, S.:
Preferences, partners, and parenthood: linking early fertility desires, marriage timing, and achieved fertility
Demography. (2020)    
Spilerman, S.; Barclay, K. J.:
Birth order pairings and romantic success
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-017. (2020)    
Wood, J.; Klüsener, S.; Neels, K.; Myrskylä, M.:
Shifting links in the relationship between education and fertility: subnational spatial insights from the Belgian case
Population, Space and Place 26:8. (2020)    
Barbuscia, A.; Myrskylä, M.; Goisis, A.:
The psychosocial health of children born after medically assisted reproduction: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
SSM-Population Health 7:100355, 1–11. (2019)    
Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
Parity and mortality: an examination of different explanatory mechanisms using data on biological and adoptive parents
European Journal of Population 35:1, 63–85. (2019)    
Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
The influence of health in early adulthood on male fertility
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-020. (2019)    
Ciganda, D.; Lorenti, A.:
Using simulated reproductive history data to re-think the relationship between education and fertility
In: Social Informatics 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., 218–238. Cham: Springer. (2019)
Ciganda, D.; Todd, N.:
The limits to fertility recuperation
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-024. (2019)    
Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:
Estimating men's fertility from vital registration data with missing values
Population Studies 73:3, 439–449. (2019)    
Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:
Male fertility data for 17 high-income countries: data documentation and methods
MPIDR Technical Report TR-2019-001. (2019)
Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:
New opportunities for comparative male fertility research: insights from a new data resource based on high-quality birth registers
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-023. (2019)    
Einiö, E.; Goisis, A.; Myrskylä, M.:
Is the relationship between men's age at first birth and midlife health changing? Evidence from two British cohorts
SSM-Population Health 8:100458, 1–10. (2019)    
Fox, J. F.; Klüsener, S.; Myrskylä, M.:
Is a positive relationship between fertility and economic development emerging at the sub-national regional level? Theoretical considerations and evidence from Europe
European Journal of Population 35:3, 487–518. (2019)    
Goisis, A.; Remes, H.; 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)    
Klüsener, S.; Dribe, M.; Scalone, F.:
Spatial and social distance at the onset of the fertility transition: Sweden, 1880-1900
Demography 56:1, 169–199. (2019)    
Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:
Cognitive ability and fertility amongst Swedish men born 1951-1967: evidence from military conscription registers
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286:1902. (2019)
Lerch, M.:
Fertility decline in urban and rural areas of developing countries
Population and Development Review 45:2, 301–320. (2019)    
Lerch, M.:
Regional variations in the rural-urban fertility gradient in the global South
PLoS One 14:7, e0219624–e0219624. (2019)    
Molitoris, J.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
When and where birth spacing matters for child survival: an international comparison using the DHS
Demography 56:4, 1349–1370. (2019)    
Nisén, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Martikainen, P.; Wilson, B.; Myrskylä, M.:
The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood on educational and labor market outcomes: a dynamic analysis of population-level effects over young adulthood
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-017. (2019)    
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)    
Riffe, T.; Barclay, K. J.; Klüsener, S.; Bohk-Ewald, C.:
Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-002. (2019)    
Szołtysek, M.; Poniat, R.; Klüsener, S.; Gruber, S.:
Family organisation and human capital inequalities in historical Europe: testing the association anew
In: Cliometrics of the family, 83–119. Cham: Springer. (2019)
Arslan, R. C.; Willführ, K. P.; Frans, E. M.; Verweij, K. J. H.; Bürkner, P.-C.; Myrskylä, M.; Voland, E.; Almqvist, C.; Zietsch, B. P.; Penke, L.:
Relaxed selection and mutation accumulation are best studied empirically: reply to Woodley of Menie et al.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285:1873, 20180092–20180092. (2018)    
Arslan, R. C.; Willführ, K. P.; Frans, E. M.; Verweij, K. J. H.; Bürkner, P.-C.; Myrskylä, M.; Voland, E.; Almqvist, C.; Zietsch, B. P.; Penke, L.:
Correction to: reply to Woodley of Menie et al.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285:1884, 20181427–20181427. (2018)    
Barclay, K. J.:
The birth order paradox: sibling differences in educational attainment
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 54, 56–65. (2018)    
Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
Birth intervals and health in adulthood: a comparison of siblings using Swedish register data
Demography 55:3, 929–955. (2018)    
Barclay, K. J.; Lyngstad, T. H.; Conley, D.:
The production of inequalities within families and across generations: the intergenerational effects of birth order and family size on educational attainment
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2018-002. (2018)    
Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:
Parental age and offspring mortality: negative effects of reproductive ageing may be counterbalanced by secular increases in longevity
Population Studies 72:2, 157–173. (2018)    
Bohk-Ewald, C.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:
Forecast accuracy hardly improves with method complexity when completing cohort fertility
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115:37, 9187–9192. (2018)    
Goisis, A.; Remes, H.; Barclay, K. J.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:
Paternal age and the risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery: a Finnish register-based study
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 72:12, 1104–1109. (2018)    
Goisis, A.; Schneider, D. C.; Myrskylä, M.:
Secular changes in the association between advanced maternal age and the risk of low birth weight: a cross-cohort comparison in the UK
Population Studies 72:3, 381–397. (2018)    
Lappegård, T.; Klüsener, S.; Vignoli, D.:
Why are marriage and family formation increasingly disconnected across Europe? A multi-level perspective on existing theories
Population, Space and Place 24:2, e2088–e2088. (2018)    
Lerch, M.:
Fertility and union formation during crisis and societal consolidation in the Western Balkans
Population Studies 72:2, 217–234. (2018)    
Nisén, J.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Silventoinen, K.:
Education, other socioeconomic characteristics across the life course, and fertility among Finnish men
European Journal of Population 34:3, 337–366. (2018)    
Arslan, R. C.; Willführ, K. P.; Frans, E. M.; Verweij, K. J. H.; Bürkner, P.-C.; Myrskylä, M.; Voland, E.; Almqvist, C.; Zietsch, B. P.; Penke, L.:
Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London/B 284:1862, 20171562–20171562. (2017)    
Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
The effect of number of siblings on adult mortality: evidence from Swedish registers for cohorts born between 1938 and 1972
Population Studies 71:1, 43–63. (2017)    
Barclay, K. J.; Hällsten, M.; Myrskylä, M.:
Birth order and college major in Sweden
Social Forces 96:2, 629–660. (2017)    
Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:
The long-term cognitive and socioeconomic consequences of birth intervals: a within-family sibling comparison using Swedish register data
Demography 54:2, 459–484. (2017)    
Bijlsma, M. J.; Wilson, B.:
Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-013. (2017)    
Ciganda, D.; Villavicencio, F.:
Feedback mechanisms in the postponement of fertility in Spain
In: Agent-based modelling in population studies: concepts, methods, and applications, 405–435. Cham: Springer. (2017)
Dudel, C.:
Die Kinder der Väter
Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand 14:2, 3–3. (2017)    
Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:
Estimating male fertility from vital registration data with missing values
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-019. (2017)    
Goisis, A.; Özcan, B.; Myrskylä, M.:
Decline in the negative association between low birth weight and cognitive ability
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114:1, 84–88. (2017)    
Goisis, A.; Remes, H.; 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)    
Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:
Cognitive ability and fertility amongst Swedish men: evidence from 18 cohorts of military conscription
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-020. (2017)    
Lerch, M.:
Urban and rural fertility transitions in the developing world: a cohort perspective
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-011. (2017)    
Myrskylä, M.; Barclay, K. J.; Goisis, A.:
Advantages of later motherhood
Der Gynäkologe 50:10, 767–772. (2017)    
Pifarré i Arolas, H.:
A cohort perspective of the effect of unemployment on fertility
Journal of Population Economics 30:4, 1211–1239. (2017)    
Szołtysek, M.; Klüsener, S.; Poniat, R.; Gruber, S.:
The Patriarchy Index: a new measure of gender and generational inequalities in the past
Cross-Cultural Research 51:3, 228–262. (2017)    
Szołtysek, M.; Poniat, R.; Klüsener, S.; Gruber, S.:
Family organisation and human capital inequalities in historic Europe: testing the association anew
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-012. (2017)    
Wood, J.; Klüsener, S.; Neels, K.; Myrskylä, M.:
Is a positive link between human development and fertility attainable? Insights from the Belgian vanguard case
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-014. (2017)    
Barclay, K. J.; 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.; 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)    
Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:
Estimating male fertility in eastern and western Germany since 1991: a new lowest low?
Demographic Research 35:53, 1549–1560. (2016)
Klüsener, S.; Dribe, M.; Scalone, F.:
Spatial and social distance in the fertility transition: Sweden 1880-1900
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-009. (2016)    
Klüsener, S.; Scalone, F.; Dribe, M.:
Exploring the role of communication in shaping fertility transition patterns in space and time
In: Agent-based modelling in population studies: concepts, methods, and applications, 369–403. Cham: Springer. (2016)
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)    
Klüsener, S.:
Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends, persistence of the past, and potential future pathways
The History of the Family 20:4, 593–628. (2015)
Willführ, K. P.; Störmer, C.:
Social strata differentials in reproductive behavior among agricultural families in the Krummhörn region (East Frisia, 1720-1874)
Historical Life Course Studies 2, 58–85. (2015)
Barclay, K. J.; Myrskylä, M.:
Birth order and physical fitness in early adulthood: evidence from Swedish military conscription data
Social Science and Medicine 123, 141–148. (2014)    

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New Study Analyses Interrelations Among Family Characteristics

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Not Just Later, but Fewer: Women in Nordic Countries Now Have Less Children

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