Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

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Steadily increasing longevity is both an impressive achievement and a major challenge for the developed world. Continued improvements in life expectancy inevitably contribute to population aging, and are expected to strongly decrease the worker-to-non-worker ratio. The extent to which increasing longevity is good news at the individual and societal level depends on the answers to two key questions. First, are the extra years of life spent in good or in poor health? Second, how is increasing longevity distributed between work and retirement? Research being conducted at the laboratory of Population Health focuses on these two questions.   Detailed Description

Selected Publications

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)    

Remund, A.; Camarda, C. G.; Riffe, T.:

A cause-of-death decomposition of the young adult mortality hump

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-007. (2017)       

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)    

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)    

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)