Helen Eriksson (Ph.D. in Demography) is a Researcher at the Stockholm University Demography Unit located within the Department of Sociology.
Her research interests lie in family demography, with a special focus on social policy and gender, and applied quantitative methods. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project ‘A family decision? Population studies of parental leave at the gendered workplace’ financed for years 2022-2025.
See CV to the right for publications and other activities.
Research
Research interests:
Family demography, social policy, administrative register data, applied quantitative methods
The project will provide understanding of how the family decision to take leave is conditional on expectations of the gendered workplace. It may provide new insights into how policy-making may benefit from a shift from the individual and couple to the workplace.
This project examine why fathers working in occupations requiring the highest qualifications, such as medical doctors and lawyers, claim more than twice the length of father leave than those in occupations requiring the least qualifications, such as cleaners and machine operators.
Over the past decade fertility rates in Sweden have declined somewhat unexpectedly. This development has occurred in tandem with even greater fertility declines in the other Nordic countries. The projects explores why.
