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Working papers series in demography

Our latest Stockholm Research Reports in Demography are listed here. When a working paper is published in an academic journal, we remove the working paper pdf and replace it with a link to the journal publication.

Please note that the working papers published here are not peer-reviewed. For a list of our publications in peer-reviewed journals and books by the Stockholm University Demography Unit, please see this page!

Below we list working papers from 2021 until now.

For working papers 2020, see this page

For working papers 2010-2019, see this page

For working papers before 2010, please see this page

2025

  • SRRD 2025:10 Linda Kridahl, Martin Kolk. Divorce after age 60: Changing patterns across cohorts in Sweden
  • SRRD 2025:09 Eleonora Mussino, Bruno Santos, Mimmi Aurora Lounela, Sven Drefahl. Invisible Emigrants: A Research Note Uncovering Population Over-Coverage Bias in Socio-Demographic Rates
  • SRRD 2025:08 Frankseco Yorke. Neighborhood Effects on Educational Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis of Swedish-born Children of Refugees in Sweden
  • SRRD 2025:07 Anna-Karin Nylin, Stefanie Möllborn, Sunnee Billingsley. Does Intensive Parenting Come at the Expense of Parents’ Health? Evidence from Sweden
  • SRRD 2025:06 Flore Debruyne. Beyond the Clock: Uncovering the Nexus between Overtime and Parental Leave
  • SRRD 2025:05 Stefanie Möllborn, Sunnee Billingsley. Intensive Parenting in Dual-Earner, Dual-Carer Society: Integrating Role Conflict into Gendered Attitudes toward Parenting
  • SRRD 2025:04 Steffen Peters, Kieron Barclay, Monika Mynarska, Mikko Myrskylä. Consistent Patterns Across Birth Parities? Psychological Measures and Birth Parity Transitions Among Swedish Men
  • SRRD 2025:03 Weiwen Lai. Couple migration and housework dynamics in China: A longitudinal analysis
  • SRRD 2025:02 Stefanie Möllborn, Martin Kolk, Marie Evertsson. Recent Trends in Parenthood in Swedish Same- and Different-Sex Marriages: Emerging Gender and Socioeconomic Differences
  • SRRD 2025:01 Sunnee Billingsley, Stefanie Möllborn, Gerda Neyer. Are intensive parenting attitudes a deterrent to childbearing?

2024

  • SRRD 2024:54 Michael Grätz, Kieron Barclay. Liberal and Radical Equality of Opportunity in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:53 Susie D. Lee, Kieron Barclay, Maria Christine Magnus, Andreas Ernst, Mikko Myrskylä, Multiple births mortality by maternal age at birth: A within-family analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data on 42 low-income countries
  • SRRD 2024:52 Chiara Ludovica Comolli, Diego Pieroni, Valentina Ricci. Mapping bereavement effect among pensioners in Italy
  • SRRD 2024:51 Konstantin Kazenin, Sergei Zakharov, Sunnee Billingsley. Demographic momentum and fertility responses to pronatalist policies: The case of ethnic minorities in Russia
  • SRRD 2024:50 Weiwen Lai, Jing Song. Changing roles of marriage and family status for labor migration? The case of rural China
  • SRRD 2024:49 Bruno Santos, Eleonora Mussino, Sven Drefahl, Eleni Matechou. Final version published 2024 in Nature Scientific Reports. Using Population register data and capture-recapture models to estimate over-coverage in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:48 Konstantin Kazenin. Son preference at the crossroads: A comparison of parity progressions among birth cohorts of women in Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East
  • SRRD 2024:47 Eleonora Mussino, Ann-Zofie Duvander, Konstantin Kazenin. Understanding migrant integration under the lens of family policy use: Parental leave use among migrants in a couple perspective
  • SRRD 2024:46 Matthew Wallace. Living longer in poor health? A narrative review of the evidence among international migrants
  • SRRD 2024:45 Karin Modig, Gunnar Andersson, Sven Drefahl. Did migrants experience a COVID-19 mortality disadvantage in the Swedish care setting? Type of care and mortality among older migrants in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:44 Linda Kridahl, Sofi Ohlsson Wijk, Ann-Zofie Duvander. Economic Situation and Late-Life Divorce: A ‘His’ and ‘Hers’ Perspective
  • SRRD 2024:43 Wooseong Kim, Sol P. Juárez, Andrea Dunlavy, Sven Drefahl, Siddartha Aradhya. Final version published in Social Science & Medicine. Labor market disadvantages and mental health among the second-generation children of immigrants in Sweden. A population cohort study
  • SRRD 2024:42 Gerda Neyer, Weiwen Lai, Gunnar Andersson. Not Only Births, But Also Intentions: The Decline of Fertility Intentions in Sweden in the 2010s
  • SRRD 2024:41 Kirsti M. Jylhä, Martin Kolk, Malcolm Fairbrother. Attitudes towards childbearing, population, and the environment: Examining prevalence and demographic and psychological correlates
  • SRRD 2024:40 Martin Kolk. Wealth and Childbearing – Fertility by Parity According to Own and Parental Wealth in Swedish Administrative Taxation Data
  • SRRD 2024:39 Sofi Ohlsson Wijk, Gunnar Andersson. Swedish Fertility Developments Before, During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • SRRD 2024:38 Stefanie Möllborn, Martin Kolk. Same-Sex Marriage in Sweden 1995-2021: A Research Note on Changing Patterns in Gender, Parenthood, and Socioeconomic Composition.
  • SRRD 2024:37  Rosa Weber, Elena Pupaza, Ben Wilson, Mathieu Ichou. From Segregation to the Mainstream: Childhood Neighborhoods of Immigrants and their Descendants in France and Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:36 Mimmi Aurora Lounela. Employment Uncertainty and Fertility Decision-Making: Migrant-Native Disparities in Sweden and Norway
  • SRRD 2024:35 Samaneh Khaef. Unveiling Integration: Educational Enrollment Pathways of Adult Refugees in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:34  Mary Abed Al Ahad, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu. The Interconnection of Homeownership, Marriage and Childbearing in the Life Courses of Young Adults, by Country of Origin and Generation in Sweden.
  • SRRD 2024:33 Oskar Lindström. Employment resilience and fertility intentions: An analysis of the perceived capacity to overcome loss of employment and fertility intentions in Sweden.
  • SRRD 2024:32 Erik Carlsson. Fertility differences by type of residence permit among female immigrants in Sweden.
  • SRRD 2024:31  Linus Andersson, Natalie Nitsche, Marika Jalovaara. Cohort Fertility and Couple Educational Pairing
  • SRRD 2024:30 Isaac Sasson, Linus Andersson, Alyson van Raalte, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez. Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:29 Wooseong Kim, Weiwen Lai, Gerda Neyer. Growing significance of employment uncertainty on fertility intention in Sweden: Results from the Generations and Gender Surveys
  • SRRD 2024:28  Mark Gortfelder, Gunnar Andersson, Gerda Neyer. Published 2025 in Population and Development Review. Trends in Completed Fertility by Educational Field: Swedish Men and Women Born 1946–1975
  • SRRD 2024:27  Steffen Peters, Rasmus Mannerström, Katariina Salmela-Aro. Identity and marriage: A bidirectional approach based on evidence from Finland
  • SRRD 2024:26 Eleonora Mussino, Chiara Ludovica Comolli. Migrants and natives’ childbearing intentions in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • SRRD 2024:25 Eleonora Mussino, Caroline Uggla. Agree to disagree? Fertility intentions among mixed couples in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:24  Weiwen Lai, Yuying Tong. Spousal migration, intergenerational co-residence, and the non-migrant husbands’ and wives’ housework time in rural China
  • SRRD 2024:23  Stefanie Mollborn, Sunnee Billingsley. Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:22 Andreas Filser, Caroline Uggla. Are local sex ratios associated with transition into first cohabiting union? Evidence from Finnish register data
  • SRRD 2024:21 Marcus Immonen Hagley, Martin Kolk. Kinship among natives and foreign-born: future forecasts of non-European migrant family composition in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:20 Julia Klein, Martin Kolk, Jan Saarela. Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972–2020
  • SRRD 2024:19 Weiwen Lai. Weaker intentions or lower realization? Explaining gender differences in labor migration from rural China
  • SRRD 2024:18 Miska Simanainen. Published 2025 in European Journal of Population. How Changes in Cash Transfers Can Affect Childbearing Among Low-Income Women: Evidence from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
  • SRRD 2024:17  Wooseong Kim, Raffaele Grotti, Siddartha Aradhya. Is overqualification a stepping stone for career progression among children of immigrants?
  • SRRD 2024:16 Ben Wilson. Using Swedish administrative registers to study immigrants and their descendants: Identifying immigrants, measuring their migration background, and linking data across generations
  • SRRD 2024:15 Karen Haandrikman, Joeke Kuyvenhoven. Supermovers? Childhood internal mobility in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:14 Marco Santacroce, Kieron Barclay. Birth Order and Upper-Secondary School Tracking in Sweden: A Mechanism for Birth Order Inequality in Educational Attainment
  • SRRD 2024:13 Juta Kawalerowicz, Marianne Abramsson, Linda Kridahl, Jani Turunen. Splitting up late: housing changes around the time of divorce for older men and women in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:12 Andersson, Linus, Jan Saarela and Caroline Uggla. Final version published 2024 in Journal of Marriage and Family, Divorce among high and low divorce-prone populations following unilateral divorce laws.
  • SRRD 2024:11 Carlsson, Erik and Wooseong Kim. Do depression and loneliness affect fertility intentions and their realisation? Evidence from Norway and Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:10 Kridahl, Linda, Ann-Zofie Duvander and Jani Turunen. Do your children or my children matter? A study on the association between common children and stepchildren and divorce among older couples in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:09 Johansson, Ida. Social Gradients in Subjective Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:08 Svallfors, Signe, Sunnee Billingsley, Gudrun Østby and Siddartha Aradhya. Armed Conflict and Birthweight: Micro-Level Evidence on Violence and Anti-Coca Fumigation in Colombia
  • SRRD 2024:07 Kazenin, Konstantin. Final version published 2025 in Population Research and Policy Review. Preference for sons and daughters in developing countries: When does (dis)agreement between spouses come into play?
  • SRRD 2024:06 Billingsley, Sunnee, Kathryn Grace and Maryia Bakhtsiyarava. Climate Change and Getting Pregnant: Weather Exposure and a Full Accounting of Conceptions in Armenia and Tajikistan.
  • SRRD 2024:05 Billingsley, Sunnee, Pilar Gonalons-Pons and Ann-Zofie Duvander. Mapping how family dynamics shape income inequality between families with young children: The case of Sweden, 1995-2018
  • SRRD 2024:04 Carlsson, Erik. The association between religion and fertility among natives and immigrants in Sweden
  • SRRD 2024:03 Mollborn, Stefanie and Sunnee Billingsley. Intensive Parenting Attitudes in Sweden: An Exception or a Global Pattern?
  • SRRD 2024:02 Gustafsson, Andreas. Childhood family structure in 16 European countries
  • SRRD 2024:01 Gortfelder, Mark, Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson. Trust and fertility intentions in high-trust Sweden: An exploratory analysis. Final version published 2024 in Comparative Population Studies 49:297-316.

2023

2022

  • SRRD 2022:25 Andersson, Linus. The Contribution of Partnership Contexts of Births to Cohort Fertility Rates
  • SRRD 2022:24 Peters, Steffen. The Prospective Power of Personality Factors for Family Formation and Dissolution Processes among Males: Evidence from Swedish Register Data
  • SRRD 2022:23 Kan, Maxim. Sustained and Universal Fertility Recuperation in Kazakhstan. Final version published 2023 in European Journal of Population, 39(23).
  • SRRD 2022:22 Harber-Aschan, Lisa, Elena Pupaza and Ben Wilson. The Legacy of Exile for Children of Refugees: Inequality and Disparity across Multiple Domains of Life
  • SRRD 2022:21 Kridahl, Linda, Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk and Ann-Zofie Duvander. What Matters Most? The Role of Late Fatherhood and Grandfatherhood on Retirement Timing in Sweden
  • SRRD 2022:20 Wallace, Matthew and Sven Drefahl. Against the Grain: International Migration, Mortality and Population Health in Sweden, 1990-2019
  • SRRD 2022:19 Kawalerowicz, Juta, Agneta Cederström, Eva Andersson and Bo Malmberg. COVID-19 in the Neighbourhood: the Socio-Spatial Selectivity of Severe COVID-19 Cases in Sweden, March 2020-June 2021
  • SRRD 2022:18 Dabergott, Filip. Demographic Change among the Widowed Population in Sweden 1970-2019
  • SRRD 2022:17 Bujard, Martin and Gunnar Andersson. Fertility Declines near the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence of the 2022 Birth Declines in Germany and Sweden. Final version published 2024 in European Journal of Population, 40(1).
  • SRRD 2022:16 Andersson, Linus and Martin Kolk. Kinship and Socioeconomic Status: Social Gradients in Frequencies of Kin Across the Life Course in Sweden
  • SRRD 2022:15 Khaef, Samaneh. Initial Residential Patterns of Immigrants across the Urban Hierarchy in Sweden: The Role of Education. Final version published 2024 in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12608
  • SRRD 2022:14 Shi, Jiaxin and Martin Kolk. The Inequality of Lifetime Pensions 
  • SRRD 2022:13 Eriksson, Helen and Martin Kolk. Parental Union Dissolution and the Gender Revolution. Final version published 2024 in Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae079
  • SRRD 2022:12 Schmauk, Sarah, Anna-Karin Nylin. Mothers’ Earnings Trajectories after Separation in Sweden and Western Germany
  • SRRD 2022:11 Höhn, Andreas, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu, and Brad Campbell. Generations and Gender in the Fertility of Immigrants and their Descendants: a Register-based Study of Sweden. Final version published 2024 in International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241245072
  • SRRD 2022:10 Wilson, Ben, Eleonora Mussino, Caroline Uggla. Patterns of Early Adult Disadvantage among the Children of Immigrants: Life Course Trajectories across Multiple Domains of Life
  • SRRD 2022:09 Grotti, Raffaele and Giampiero Passaretta. Intragenerational Wage Mobility and the Social Disadvantage: a Comparative Study of West Germany and the United States 
  • SRRD 2022:08 Neyer, Gerda and Gunnar Andersson, Johan Dahlberg, Sofi Ohlsson Wijk, Linus Andersson, Sunnee Billingsley. Fertility Decline, Fertility Reversal and Changing Childbearing Considerations in Sweden: a Turn to Subjective Imaginations?
  • SRRD 2022:07 Cozzani, Marco and Peter Fallesen, Giampiero Passaretta, Juho Härkönen and Fabrizio Bernardi. The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Spanish Birth Registers. Final version published 2023 in Population and Development Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12536
  • SRRD 2022:06 Billingsley, Sunnee and Livia Olah. Patterns of Co-residential Relationships across Cohorts in Post-socialist Countries. Less Time for Childbearing? Final version published 2022 in Social Inclusion 10 (3) 
  • SRRD 2022:05 Barclay, Kieron and Dalton Conley. The Influence of Cousin Order and Cousin Group Size on Educational Outcomes. Forthcoming in American Journal of Sociology.
  • SRRD 2022:04 Vogiazides, Louisa and Juta Kawalerowicz. Urban Exodus in Covid Times: Who Moves out of the Inner City of Stockholm and Where Do They Go?
  • SRRD 2022:03 Peters, Steffen and Kieron Barclay. Leadership Skills and Completed Fertility among Males: a Study Based on Data from Swedish Registries
  • SRRD 2022:02 Kridahl, Linda and Ann-Zofie Duvander. Relationship Satisfaction and the Role of Bargaining Power and Pooling of Money in Older Couples in Sweden. Published 2023 as Kridahl, L. & Duvander, A. (2023). "Relationship satisfaction and money pooling among older working and retired couples in Sweden." Family Relations.
  • SRRD 2022:01 Ohlsson-Wijk, Sofi and Gunnar Andersson. Disentangling the Swedish Fertility Decline of the 2010s. Final version published 2022 in Demographic Research 47(12): 345-358

2021

  • SRRD 2021:29 Wilson, Ben. Final version published 2025 in Demography. The Childbearing of Immigrants who Arrived as Children: Understanding the Role of Age at Arrival for Women and Men
  • SRRD 2021:28 Kolk, Martin, Linus Andersson, Emma Pettersson, Sven Drefahl. The Swedish Kinship Universe – a Demographic Account of the Number of Children, Parents, Siblings, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Aunts/uncles, Nieces/nephews, and Cousins Using National Population Registers
  • SRRD 2021:27 Andersson, Gunnar, Sven Drefahl, Eleonora Mussino, Karin Modig and Anna C. Meyer. Patterns in COVID-19 Mortality and Morbidity in Sweden during the Pandemic Year March 2020-February 2021
  • SRRD 2021:26 Pupaza, Elena, Selina Hofstetter and Ben Wilson. Economic Effects of Partner Loss: Examining Vulnerability at the Intersection of Gender and Nativity
  • SRRD 2021:25 Comolli, Chiara, Gunnar Andersson. Partisan Fertility in the aftermath of the Great Recession
  • SRRD 2021:24 Saarela, Jan, Martin Kolk, Caroline Uggla. Discordance between Language Use and Ethnolinguistic Affiliation Predicts Divorce of Exogamous Couples. Final version published 2022 in Acta Sociologica, https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221129814
  • SRRD 2021:23 Lindmarker, Jesper, Martin Kolk, Sven Drefahl. Final version published 2025 in European Journal of Population. Cohabitation and Mortality Across the Life Course: A Longitudinal Cohort Study with Swedish Register-Based Sibling Comparisons.
  • SRRD 2021:22 Mussino, Eleonora. Do Leave Policies Impact Fertility? The Case of Immigrants from Low-fertility Countries in Sweden 
  • SRRD 2021:21 Artamonova, Alyona, Brian Joseph Gillespie. Internal Migration toward Siblings in Later Life 
  • SRRD 2021:20 Wallace, Matthew, Michael J Thomas, José Manuel Aburto, Anna Vera Jørring Pallesen, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Astri Syse, Sven Drefahl. The Impact of the Mortality of International Migrants on Estimates and Comparisons of National Life Expectancy: a Comparative Study of Four Nordic Nations
  • SRRD 2021:19 Wallace, Matthew. Mortality Advantage Reversed: The Causes of Death Driving All-cause Mortality Differentials between Migrants, the Descendants of Migrants and Ancestral Natives in Sweden, 1997-2016
  • SRRD 2021:18 Shi, Jiaxin, Martin Kolk. How Does Mortality Contribute to Lifetime Pension Inequality? Evidence from Five Decades of Swedish Taxation Data. Final version published 2022 in Demography, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10218779
  • SRRD 2021:17 Kolk, Martin, Sven Drefahl, Matthew Wallace, Gunnar Andersson. Excess Mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: a Demographic Account. Final version published 2022 in Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022 (Vol. 20): 1–32
  • SRRD 2021:16 Kan, Maxim. Gender Revolution in Kazakhstan? Implications for Fertility Intentions. Final version published 2023 as "Are gender attitudes and gender division of housework and childcare related to fertility intentions in Kazakhstan?" in Genus, 79 (21). 
  • SRRD 2021:15 Campbell, Brad. An Assessment of Religious Segregation in Northern Ireland’s Schools
  • SRRD 2021:14 Campbell, Brad. A Study of Religious Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland, 1981-2011
  • SRRD 2021:13 Campbell, Brad. Disentangling the Demographic Drivers of Religious Population Change in Northern Ireland 
  • SRRD 2021:12 Weber, Rosa, Louisa Vogiazides. Integration Outcomes of Second-Generation Migrants in Sweden: a Multidimensional Inquiry. Final version published 2023 in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 83 
  • SRRD 2021:11 Kolk, Martin, Karim Jebari. Sex Selection for Daughters: Demographic Consequences of Female-biased Sex Ratios. Final version published 2022 in Population Research and Policy Review, 41:1619-1639
  • SRRD: 2021:10 Uggla, Caroline, Jan Saarela. First Partner Choice in a Native Minority: the Role of Own and Parental Ethnolinguistic Affiliation in Finland. Final version published 2024 in European Journal of Population, 40(3).
  • SRRD 2021:09 Sandström, Glenn Mojgan Padyab, Haruko Noguchi and Rong Fu. Changes in Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Living alone among Women in Sweden and Japan since the 1990s 
  • SRRD 2021:08 Mussino, Eleonora, Stefano Cantalini. Influences of Origin and Destination on Migrant Fertility in Europe 
  • SRRD 2021:07 Andersson, Gunnar, Johan Dahlberg, Gerda Neyer. A Swedish Generations and Gender Survey 2021: Familjer och vardagsliv i Sverige och Europa
  • SRRD 2021:06 Thomson, Elizabeth, Johan Dahlberg, Signe Svallfors. Childbearing across Partnerships in Europe and the United States
  • SRRD 2021:05 Monti, Andrea, Eleonora Mussino. Did They Stay or Did They Go: the Role of Intention behind Re-migration Behaviour 
  • SRRD 2021:04 Wilson, Ben, Maarten J. Bijlsma, Siddartha Aradhya, Alice Goisis. Problems in the Family: Controlling for Age, Period or Cohort in Sibling Comparison Designs
  • SRRD 2021:03 Peters, Steffen. The Prospective Power of Personality for Childbearing: a Longitudinal Study Based on Data from Germany. Final version published 2023 in Genus 79 (6) 
  • SRRD 2021:02 Malmberg, Bo, Eva K. Andersson. Exploring Life-course Trajectories in Local Spatial Contexts across Sweden
  • SRRD 2021:01 Eriksson, Helen, Maria Brandén. Från jämställda par till ojämställda föräldrar: Rationella par eller begränsade val?

For working papers 2020, see this page

For working papers 2010-2019, see this page

For working papers before 2010, please see this page

Please note that the working papers published here are not peer-reviewed. For a list of our publications in peer-reviewed journals and books by the Stockholm University Demography Unit, please see this page!

Below we list working papers from 2021 until now.

For working papers 2020, see this page

For working papers 2010-2019, see this page

For working papers before 2010, please see this page

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