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MaxHel Center

Publications of MPIDR Team Members

Boderie, N. W.; van Raalte, A. A.; Been, J. V.; Bopp, M.; Bronnum-Hansen, H.; Deboosere, P.; Eikemo, T. A.; Kalėdienė, R.; Leinsalu, M.; Long, D.; Martikainen, P.; Östergren, O. M.; Rodríguez-Sanz, M.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Nusselder, W.:

Educational inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality in Europe: understanding trends between 2000 and 2020

Public Health 250:106058, 1–7. (2026)

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

Population, Space and Place 31:7, e70116–e70116. (2025)

Evans, M.:

Race, crime, and lending risk in Chicago: the relevance of crime and disorder for HOLC’s neighborhood assessments

Race and Social Problems, 1–15. (2025)

Evans, M.; Graif, C.; Newell, A.:

Arrests and the opioid epidemic: an investigation into the spatial and social network spillover of opioid overdoses in Chicago

Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1–30. (2025)

Evans, M.; Newmyer, L.:

A state-level examination into structural racism and racialized disparities in sexually transmitted infections

Spatial Demography 13:4, 1–31. (2025)

He, M.; Lin, L.; Zai, E.:

Evaluating the impact of long-term care insurance reform on health-related quality of life and inequality among older adults in China: a quasi-experimental analysis

Economics and Human Biology 58. (2025)

Hiilamo, A.:

To what extent does the onset of limiting health condition co-occur with poverty entries across European countries and educational groups?

Social Science and Medicine. (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)

Hiilamo, A.; Luotonen, N.; Mäkinen, L.; Ristikari, T.:

Adult outcomes by parental, school and postcode aggregated income in childhood: a descriptive analysis of the cohorts 1981-1989 in Finland

PLOS One 20:7, e0327364–e0327364. (2025)

Hiilamo, A.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Dierker, P.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Heterogenous long-term health and social outcomes of type 1 diabetes: a full population 30-year observational cohort study

American Journal of Epidemiology. accepted. (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)

Hiilamo, A.; Pitkänen, J.; Moretti, M.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Children's out-of-home care in Finland, 1993–2020: lifetime risks, expectancies, exit routes, and number of placements for synthetic cohorts

Child Abuse & Neglect 169:1, 1–10. (2025)

Kapelle, N.; Rowold, C.:

Uncovering what matters: family life-course aspects and personal wealth in late working age

Demographic Research 52:22, 689–740. (2025)

Lin, L.; Zai, E.:

The role of supply responses in public insurance expansion: evidence from the new cooperative medical scheme in China

BMC Health Services Research 25:955, 1–17. (2025)

Moretti, M.; Korhonen, K.; van Raalte, A. A.; Riffe, T.; Martikainen, P.:

Evolution of widowhood lifespan and its gender and educational inequalities in Finland over three decades

(2025)

Moretti, M.; Riffe, T.; Lorenti, A.:

Multistate analysis and decomposition of disability-free life expectancy trends at mid-to-older ages in Italy, 2004–19

Population Studies, 1–16. (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)

Ross, S.; Jackisch, J.; Almquist, Y. B.:

Socioeconomic and psychosocial conditions of parents with children in out-of-home care: a qualitative systematic review

Children and Youth Services Review 170:108163, 1–13. (2025)

Rowold, C.:

Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Social Forces, 1–26. (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)

Schubert, H.-A.:

The fertility puzzle: trends and patterns of male and female fertility

Oxford: University of Oxford. unpublished. (2025)

Shen, T.; van Raalte, A. A.; Payne, C. F.:

Changing educational attainment as a driver of cohort changes in healthy longevity: a decomposition analysis of US birth cohorts

American Journal of Epidemiology. (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)

Zai, E.:

From criticism to comfort: the relational benefits of long-term care insurance

Health Services Research (HSR), 1–12. (2025)

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

Disparities in cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, treatment and mortality across socioeconomic groups in Finland: a register-based population study

BMJ Public Health 3:2, e002829–e002829. (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)

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)

Eibich, P.; Zai, E.:

Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare provision

Journal of Population Economics 37:71, 1–32. (2024)

Grigoriev, P.; Sauerberg. M.; Jasilionis, D.; van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.:

Sterblichkeitsentwicklung in Deutschland im internationalen Kontext

Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz , 1–11. (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)

Hiilamo, A.:

Household non-mortgage debt and depression in older adults in 22 countries: what is the role of social norms, institutions and macroeconomic conditions?

Social Indicators Research, 1–24. (2024)

Hiilamo, A.; Jensen, M. R.; Hermansen, Å.:

Associations between adolescent psychiatric disorders and adulthood payment problems: a Norwegian register study of complete birth cohorts of 1995-1997

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1–7. (2024)

Hiilamo, A.; Keski-Säntti, M.; Juutinen, A.; Mäkinen, L.; Ristikari, T.; Lallukka, T.:

The association of economic difficulties with social and health care costs of children –target trial emulation using complete birth cohort data in Finland

European Journal of Public Health 34:6, 1036–1042. (2024)

Hiilamo, A.; Keski-Säntti, M.; Mannevaara, M.; Kallio, J.; Harjumaa, U.; Koskenvuo, K.:

Are dental care records in childhood associated with financial hardship in adulthood?

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. (2024)

Hiilamo, A.; Lallukka, T.:

Seasonal patterns of long sickness absence due to 411 diagnostic groups: a nationwide register-based study in Finland during 2020–2023

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 1–8. (2024)

Ilmakunnas, I.; Mäkinen, L.; Hiilamo, A.:

The role of social transfers in reducing the poverty risk for larger families in the European Union

International Journal of Social Welfare, 1–19. (2024)

Jackisch, J.; van Raalte, A. A.:

The contribution of childhood adversity to adult socioeconomic gradients in mortality: a Swedish birth cohort analysis

Social Science and Medicine. forthcoming. (2024)

Jasilionis, D.; van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.; Grigoriev, P.:

Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy [Correspondence]

European Journal of Epidemiology 39, 339–341. (2024)

Kapelle, N.; Rowold, C.:

Uncovering what matters: family life course aspects and personal wealth in late working age

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-023. (2024)

Kibele, E. U. B.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Challenges in assessing area-level mortality inequalities

The Lancet Public Health 9:5, E278–E279. (2024)

Lin , L.; Zai, E.:

Assessing the impact of public insurance on healthcare utilization and mortality: a nationwide study in China

SSM-Population Health 25:101615, 1–17. (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.; De Rose, A.; Racioppi, F.:

Volunteering during early retirement reduces depression

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-038. (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)

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)

Rowold, C.:

Differences in gender pension gaps in public and private pensions in West Germany: what role do work-family life courses play?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-015. (2024)

Rowold, C.:

Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life course experiences for gender inequalities

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-021. (2024)

Rowold, C.:

Housewives never retire!? Gender biases in popular sample definitions for studies on the elderly

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-025. (2024)

Rowold, C.; Madia, J. E.:

Demographic transitions and lifestyle factors: quantifying the burden of smoking-attributable diseases on Germany's healthcare system

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-036. (2024)

Su, W.; van Raalte, A. A.; Aburto, J. M.; Canudas-Romo, V.:

Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: evidence from the United States

Demographic Research 50:22, 583–624. (2024)

Zai, E.:

Evaluating the health outcomes of aging in place: the role of medicaid aging waiver program on U.S. older adults

BMC Public Health 24:2104, 1–15. (2024)

Zai, E.:

Beyond the brink: unraveling the opioid crisis and its profound impacts

Economics & Human Biology 53:101379, 1–19. (2024)

Zai, E.:

The unseen shift: how partnership long-term care insurance influences caregiving among older adults

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 1–28. (2024)

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)

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.; Schmied, J.:

Pension benchmarks: empirical estimation and results for the United States and Germany

Fiscal Studies 44:2, 171–188. (2023)

Dudel, C.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Educational inequalities in life expectancy: measures, mapping, meaning [Editorial]

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1–2. (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)

Gurzo, K.; Östergren, O. M.; Martikainen, P.; Modin, B.:

The impact of privileged classroom friends on adult income and income mobility: a study of a Swedish cohort born in 1953

Social Forces, 1–21. (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)

Jasilionis, D.:

Increases in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Nordic countries: growing controversies between the changing welfare state and public health? [Editorial]

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 1–2. (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.; Korhonen, K.; Martikainen, P.; Morris, T. T.:

Polygenic prediction of education and its role in the intergenerational transmission of education: cohort changes among Finnish men and women born in 1925–1989

Demography 60:5, 1523–1547. (2023)

Lahtinen, H.; Moustgaard, H.; Ripatti, S.; Martikainen, P.:

Association between genetic risk of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality under different alcohol policy conditions: evidence from the Finnish alcohol price reduction of 2004

Addiction 118:4, 678–685. (2023)

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

Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-037. (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)

Luukkonen, J.; Junna, L. M.; Remes, H. M.; Martikainen, P.:

The association of lowered alcohol prices with birth outcomes and abortions: a population-based natural experiment

Addiction 118:5, 836–844. (2023)

Moretti, M.; Riffe, T.; Lorenti, A.:

Multistate analysis and decomposition of disability-free life expectancy trends in Italy 2004-2019

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-030. (2023)

Östergren, O. M.; Cederström, A.; Korhonen, K.; Martikainen, P.:

Migrant mortality by duration of residence and co-ethnic density: a register-based study on Finnish migrants in Sweden with matched controls in the origin and the destination

Health & Place 83:103064, 1–9. (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)

Ruiz, M.; Hu, Y.; Martikainen, P.; Bobak, M.:

Life course socioeconomic position and cognitive aging trajectories: a cross-national cohort study in China and England

Innovation in Aging 7:6, 1–13. (2023)

Ruks, M.; Starr, A.; Dierker, P.:

Investigating the heritability of school grades from age 10 to 16 using biometric growth curve models

PsyArXiv preprints. unpublished. (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)

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)

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)

Silventoinen, K.; Lahtinen, H.; Smith, G. D.; Morris, T. T.; Martikainen, P.:

Height, social position and coronary heart disease incidence: the contribution of genetic and environmental factors

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 77:6, 384–390. (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)

Stickley, A.; Baburin, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Krumins, J.; Martikainen, P.; Kondo, N.; Shin, J. I.; Inoue, Y.; Leinsalu, M.:

Sociodemographic inequalities in mortality from drowning in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015: a register-based study

BMC Public Health 23:1103, 1–9. (2023)

Stickley, A.; Baburin, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Krumins, J.; Martikainen, P.; Kondo, N.; Shin, J. I.; Oh, H.; Waldman, K.; Leinsalu, M.:

Educational inequalities in hypothermia mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015

European Journal of Public Health, 1–6. (2023)

Tarkiainen, L.; Kemppainen, T.; Lahtinen, H.; Bernelius, V.; Martikainen, P.:

The effect of cumulative childhood exposure to neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage on school performance: a register-based study on neighbourhoods, schools, and siblings

European Sociological Review, 1–14. (2023)

Tarkiainen, L.; Martikainen, P.:

Long-term trends in urban-neighbourhood inequalities in cause-specific mortality and hospitalisation: multilevel analyses among individuals nested in Finnish post-code areas, 1991–2018

SSM-Population Health 21:101323, 1–8. (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)

Hu, Y.; Korhonen, K.; Li, P.; Bobak, M.; Martikainen, P.; Bijlsma, M. J.:

Association between alcohol use disorders and dementia in 262,703 dementia-free Finnish adults: is cardiovascular disease a mediator?

Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 1–8. (2022)

Publications of External Team Members

Goisis, A.; Cederström, A.; Martikainen, P.:

Birth outcomes following assisted reproductive technology conception among same-sex lesbian couples vs natural conception and assisted reproductive technology conception among heterosexual couples

JAMA 329:13, 1117–1119 (2023)

Guzman-Castillo, M.; Korhonen, K.; Murphy, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Projections of future burden of pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes and associated life expectancies by income in Finland: a multi-state modeling study

Frontiers in Public Health 11 (2023)

Tanskanen, A. O.; Metsä-Simola, N.; Volotinen, L.; Danielsbacka, M.; Martikainen, P.; Remes, H.:

Maternal illness and childhood injuries in Finland

SocArXiv (2023)

Zazueta-Borboa, J. D.; Martikainen, P.; Aburto, J. M.; Costa, G.; Peltonen, R.; Zengarini, N.; Sizer, A.; Kunst, A. E.; Janssen, F.:

Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 77, 421–429 (2023)

Research

Social Demography (Myrskylä)
Fertility and Well-Being
Population Health
Research Group: Labor Demography
BIOSFER
MaxHel Center
Digital and Computational Demography (Zagheni)
Migration and Mobility
Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being
Joint Research Labs
Demographic Data
Statistical Demography
Independent Research Groups
Research Group: Kinship Inequalities
Research Group: Gender Inequalities and Fertility
Research Group: Migration and Health Inequalities