Laboratory

Population Health

Project

Early-Life Determinants of Cognitive Functioning, Health, and Mortality

Mikko Myrskylä, Kieron Barclay, Pekka Martikainen

Adverse conditions early in life can have lasting effects on health and mortality. Understanding the mechanisms by which experiences in early and later life are linked is therefore important in developing strategies for improving population health and promoting successful aging. Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Aging, Mortality and Longevity, Family Behavior, Health Care, Public Health, Medicine, and Epidemiology, Life Course

Region keywords:

Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA

Publications

Baier, T.; Lang, V.; Grätz, M.; Barclay, K. J.; Conley, D.; Dawes, C.; Laidley, T.; Lyngstad, T. H.:

Genetic influences on educational achievement in comparative perspective

European Sociological Review 38:6, 959–974. (2022)

Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Barclay, K. J.; Costa-i-Font, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Özcan, B.:

Preterm births and educational disadvantage: heterogeneous effects across families and schools

Population Studies, 1–16. (2022)

Barclay, K. J.; Smith, K. R.:

Birth spacing and health and socioeconomic outcomes across the life course: evidence from the Utah Population Database

Demography 59:3, 1117–1142. (2022)

Barclay, K. J.; Smith, K. R.:

The effects of birth spacing on health and socioeconomic outcomes across the life course: evidence from the Utah Population Database

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-038. (2020)

Martikainen, P.; Elo, I. T.; Tarkiainen, L.; Mikkonen, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Moustgaard, H.:

The changing contribution of childhood social characteristics to mortality: a comparison of Finnish cohorts born in 1936–50 and 1961–75

International Journal of Epidemiology 49:3, 896–907. (2020)

Baranowska-Rataj, A.; Barclay, K. J.; Costa-i-Font, J.; Myrskylä, M.; Özcan, B.:

Preterm births and educational disadvantage: heterogeneous effects across families and schools

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-016. (2019)

Pitkänen, J.; Remes, H. M.; Aaltonen, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Experience of maternal and paternal adversities in childhood as determinants of self-harm in adolescence and young adulthood

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73:11, 1040–1046. (2019)

Remes, H. M.; Moustgaard, H.; Kestilä, L. M.; Martikainen, P.:

Parental education and adolescent health problems due to violence, self-harm and substance use: what is the role of parental health problems?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73:3, 225–231. (2019)

Todd, N.:

The social reception of a novel legal framework for WW1 orphans: the pupille de la Nation status

In: War hecatomb: international effects on public health, demography and mentalities in the 20th century, 121–138. Bern: Peter Lang. (2019)

Todd, N.:

Epidémiologie et histoire: les orphelins de la Première Guerre mondiale

In: Akademien im Kriege. Académies en guerre. Academies in war, 95–96. Halle (Saale); Stuttgart: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina; Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft. (2019)

Kröger, H.; Hoffmann, R.; Tarkiainen, L.; Martikainen, P.:

Comparing observed and unobserved components of childhood: evidence from Finnish register data on midlife mortality from siblings and their parents

Demography 55:1, 295–318. (2018)

Bijwaard, G. E.; Myrskylä, M.; Tynelius, P.; Rasmussen, F.:

Education, cognitive ability and cause-specific mortality: a structural approach

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-007. (2016)

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