Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Costs and Gains of Postponing Parenthood

Conducted by Mikko Myrskylä; Susie Lee, Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland), Kieron Barclay; in Collaboration with Alice Goisis (University College London, United Kingdom), Siddartha Aradhya (Stockholm University , Sweden), Øystein Kravdal (University of Oslo, Norway), Tegunimataka Anna (Statistics Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Advanced maternal and paternal ages are associated with a range of negative offspring outcomes, and they may have serious population-level health effects. This project reexamines whether and how childbearing at later ages may affect outcomes for parents and children.  Detailed Description

Publications

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)    

Lee, D. S.; Nitsche, N.; Barclay, K. J.:

Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 cohort

Population Studies 77:2, 241–261. (2023)    

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)    

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)    

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)    

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)    

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)    

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)    

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

Advantages of later motherhood

Der Gynäkologe 50:10, 767–772. (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)