Working papers series in demography

Below we list working papers from 2020 until now. Please note that the working papers published here are not peer-reviewed.

Working papers 2010-2019

Working papers before 2010

Publications in peer-reviewed journals and books by the Stockholm University Demography Unit

2025

• SRRD 2025:29 Agostino Cristofalo, Sven Drefahl, Eleonora Mussino, and Eleonora Trappolini. Partnership Status and Mortality Across Migration Generations: Evidence from Sweden
• SRRD 2025:28 Erik Carlsson. The Relationship Between Political Orientation and Childbearing in Western Europe
• SRRD 2025:27 Stefanie Möllborn, Martin Kolk, Bethany Everett, and Richard Bränström. Who Are We Studying When We Study Sexual Minorities? A Demographic Portrait by Partnership and Sexual Identity in Sweden.
• SRRD 2025:26 Ewa Batyra, Ben Wilson. The distribution of reproduction during a fertility transition: Declining spread of parenthood in Brazil
• SRRD 2025:25 Anastasia Lam, Ben Wilson, Matthew Wallace. Under-15 mortality among children of immigrants in Sweden: A total population cohort study
• SRRD 2025:24 Ben Wilson, Frankseco Yorke, Elena Pupaza, Lisa Harber-Aschan. The importance of refugees and their descendants for understanding population heterogeneity
• SRRD 2025:23 Ane Tømmerås. Understanding Asylum-seeker Approval and Reception Center Dynamics in Norway
• SRRD 2025:22 Kieron Barclay, Magnus Bygren. Sibling group sex composition and horizontal educational segregation
• SRRD 2025:21 Joanna Lindström, Siddartha Aradhya, Sabina Čehajić-Clancy. From “Them” to “Us”: Intergroup contact leads to improved intergroup attitudes through building common ingroup-identity—Longitudinal evidence from four European countries
• SRRD 2025:20 Giampiero Passaretta, Siddartha Aradhya, Raffaele Grotti. Parental unemployment and children’s school outcomes: A double disadvantage for the Swedish second-generation?
• SRRD 2025:19 Weiqian Xia, Martin Kolk, Jan Saarela, Vegard Skirbekk. Religious Disaffiliation in a Secularized Society: A Register-Based Study of Finland on the Impact of Policy and Legislative Changes
• SRRD 2025:18Weiqian Xia, Jani Turunen, Siddartha Aradhya, Jan Saarela. Returns to returning with sibling comparisons: Register-based evidence from Finland
  

• SRRD 2025:17 Maria Ponkilainen, Elina Einiö, Martin Kolk, Peter Fallesen, Fartein A Torvik, Maria Lyster Andersen, Mikko Myrskylä. Changing Landscapes of Parenthood: Childbearing Among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in the Nordic Countries
• SRRD 2025:16 Linus Andersson, Martin Kolk, Jan Saarela. The Pillowside Proselytizer: A Register-Based Study of the Relationship Between Religious Conversions, Religious Endogamy, and Gender in Finnish Marriages
• SRRD 2025:15 Steffen Peters, Erich Striessnig, Alessandra Trimarchi, Maria Rita Testa, Natalie Nitsche. Final version puublished 2025 in Population and Environment. Too Worried about the Environment to Have Children? Or More Worried about the Environment After Having Children? The Reciprocal Relationship Between Environmental Concerns and Fertility
• SRRD 2025:14 Eleonora Mussino, Konstantin Kazenin, Ann-Zofie Duvander. Parental Gender Preference and Parental Leave Use: To What Extent Parental Leave Use Can Be Explained by Gender Preferences
• SRRD 2025:13 Raffaele Grotti, Siddartha Aradhya, Maria Vaalavuo, Outi Sirniö, Liina Rintala. Poverty dynamics in early childhood among the children of immigrants in Sweden and Finland
• SRRD 2025:12 Kaarina Reini, Martin Kolk, Jan Saarela. Religious switching and mental disorders in young adulthood: Evidence from Finnish population register data
• SRRD 2025:11 Linus Andersson, Iman Dadgar, Roujman Shahbazian. Does the Bigger-Fish-in-the-Pond Hatch More Fry? A Register-Based Analysis of the Causal Effect of Students Grade Rank Position in Schools on Completed Fertility, Marriage, and Divorce by Age 40
• 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. Final version published 2025 in Community, Work & Family as Beyond the clock: how individual, workplace, and organizational overtime work shape parental leave uptake in Sweden
• 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. Final version published 2025 in Journal of Family Studies. Couple migration and housework dynamics in China: A longitudinal analysis
• SRRD 2025:02 Stefanie Möllborn, Martin Kolk, Marie Evertsson. Final version published 2025 in Genus. 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 Eleonora Mussino, Sol P Juárez, Karin Modig, Gunnar Andersson, Sven Drefahl. Final version published 2025 in European Journal of Public Health. 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. Final version published 2025 in Journal of Marriage and Family. 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. Final version published 2025 in Population and Enviornment. 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. Final version published 2025 in European Journal of Population. 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. Final version published 2025 in Population, Space and Face. 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. Final version published 2025 in Sage Journals. Migrants and natives’ childbearing intentions in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic
• SRRD 2024:25 Eleonora Mussino, Caroline Uggla. Final version published 2025 in European Journal of Population. 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. Final version pulblished 2025 in Journal of Family Issues. 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. Final version published 2025 in Demographic Research. in Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972–2020
• SRRD 2024:19 Weiwen Lai. Final version published 2025 in Journal of Population Research. Weaker intentions or lower realization? Explaining gender differences in labor migration from rural China
• SRRD 2024:18 Miska Simanainen. Final version 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. Final version published 2025 in Housing Studies. Late-life divorce and housing changes among 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

• SRRD 2023:30 Klængur Jónsson, Ari. Final version published 2024 in Comparative Population Studies. Fertility Decline in Iceland, 2013–2022 Trends and Structures
• SRRD 2023:29 Abed Al Ahad, Mary, Gunnar Andersson and Hill Kulu. Homeownership Across Immigrant Groups and Generations in Sweden: Assimilation or Segmentation?
• SRRD 2023:28 Saarela, Jan and Jani Turunen. Final version published 2023 in Social Science Research. Born to move? Birth order and emigration
• SRRD 2023:27 Reini, Kaarina, Martin Kolk and Jan Saarela. Religion and mental health in young adulthood – a register based study on differences by religious affiliation in sickness absence due to mental disorders in Finland. Final version published 2024 in BMJ Journals
• SRRD 2023:26 Neyer, Gerda, Gunnar Andersson and Johan Dahlberg. The Swedish Generations and Gender Survey 2021: Forerunner of New Modules for the Generations and Gender Programme. Final version published in Finnish Yearbook of Population Research 57 (2023-2024): 145-164
• SRRD 2023:25 Weber, Rosa and Jan Saarela. Cultural Proximity and Migration: Evidence from Multigenerational Population Registers on Mother Tongue
• SRRD 2023:24 Birgier, Debora Pricila and Stefano Cantalini. The Trade-Off Between Employment and Overeducation: A Cross-Country Comparative Study of Immigrants in 17 Western European Countries. Final version published 2024 as Navigating employment and overeducation: comparative study of immigrant experiences in 17 Western European nations in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• SRRD 2023:23 Cantalini, Stefano, Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk and Gunnar Andersson. Union Formation and Marriage Formation in Times of Fertility Decline: The Case of Sweden in the 21st Century. Final version published 2024 in European Journal of Population, 40(15).
• SRRD 2023:22 Kolk, Martin, J. Lucas Tilley, Emma von Essen, Ylva Moberg, and Ian Burn. Final version published 2025 in Demography. The Demography of Sweden’s Transgender Population – A Research Note on Patterns, Changes, and Sociodemographics
• SRRD 2023:21 Wallace, M., Mussino, E., Aradhya, S., Harber-Aschan, L., and Wilson, B. Final version published 2024 in BMJ Public Health, 2(1): 1-9. Childhood socioeconomic background and elevated mortality among the young adult second generation in Sweden: A population-based cohort study
• SRRD 2023:20 Birgier, Debora Pricila and Eyal Bar-Haim. Language Distance, Language Abilities, and Labour Market Outcome of Migrants by Gender 
• SRRD 2023:19 Nylin, Anna-Karin. Sick Leave in Sweden Following Separation Among Parents  
• SRRD 2023:18 Bar-On, Yonatan. Israel’s Long and Winding Road to a Second Demographic Transition: A Study on Attitudes in Accordance with the Second Demographic Transition in Israel 2009-2019  
• SRRD 2023:17 Kan, Maxim. Religion and Contraceptive Use in Kazakhstan: A Study of Mediating Mechanisms. Final version published 2024 in Demographic Research 50(21) as Religion and contraceptive use in Kazakhstan: A study of mediating mechanisms
• SRRD 2023;16 Kim, Wooseong. Final version published 2024 in European Journal of Population (Vol. 40, Issue 1). Overqualification among Second Generation Children of Migrants in the Swedish Labor Market  
• SRRD 2023:15 Nisén, Jessica, Anni Erlandsson and Marika Jalovaara. Final version published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues. Gendered Relationship of Childbearing with Earnings Accumulated by Midlife in Two Nordic Countries
• SRRD 2023:14 Carlsson, Erik. Ethnic fertility differentials among Yugoslavian-born immigrants in Sweden
• SRRD 2023:13 Kridahl, Linda and Ann-Zofie Duvander. Psychological Wellbeing, Gender Equality and Belongingness among Older Partnered Individuals in Sweden. Published 2023 as Kridahl, L. & Duvander, A. (2023). "Depressive symptoms, gender equality and belongingness  among older partnered individuals in Sweden". Community, Work and Family, 1-20.
• SRRD 2023:12 Wallace, Matthew, Lucinda Hiam, Robert Aldridge. Final version published 2023 in British Medical Bulletin. Elevated mortality among the second-generation (children of migrants) in Europe: what is going wrong? A review 
• SRRD 2023:11 Engström, Emma and Martin Kolk. Final version published 2024 in Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. Projecting Environmental Impacts with varying Population, Affluence, and Technology using IPAT–Climate Change and Land Use Scenarios
• SRRD 2023:10 Monti, Andrea and Marianne Tønnessen. Party Penalty or Party Premium? ´Party-Swedes´ in Norway and Their Income before, during, and after Migration. Final version published 2024 in Population Studies, 1–26.
• SRRD 2023:09 Wilson, Ben, Matthew Wallace and Jan Saarela. Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants? Final version published 2024 in Epidemiology 10-1097
• SRRD 2023:08 Monti, Andrea and Jan Saarela. Geographic Immobility across Three Generations of Natives in Finland. Final version published 2023 as  Geographical immobility and local ancestral ties: a study of three generations of natives in Finland in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 1–18.
• SRRD 2023:07 Xia, Weiqian, Martin Kolk and Jan Saarela. Final version published 2024 in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-based Study on the Secularization Difference between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
• SRRD 2023:06 Kolk, Martin and Jan Saarela. Religion and Fertility – A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland. Final version published 2024 as Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in FinlandEuropean Journal of Population
• SRRD 2023:05 Mussino, Eleonora, Sven Drefahl, Matthew Wallace, Sunnee Billingsley, Siddartha Aradhya, Gunnar Andersson. Lives Saved, Lives Lost and Under-reported Covid-19 Deaths: Excess and Non-excess Mortality in Relation to Cause-specific Mortality during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Sweden. Published 2024 as “Lives saved, lives lost and under-reported Covid-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden”. Demographic Research 50(1).
• SRRD  2023:04 Kazenin, Konstantin. Desires for an Additional Child in Developing Countries: the Role of Son Preference. Final version published 2024 in Genus 80(6).
• SRRD 2023:03 Barclay, Kieron, Martin Kolk, Øystein Kravdal. Final version published 2024 in Demography. Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects 
• SRRD 2023:02 Grotti, Raffaele, Siddartha Aradhya and Juho Härkönen. Hiring or Firing? The Dynamics of Unemployment Inequality among the Children of Immigrants
• SRRD 2023:01 Pupaza, Elena, Lisa Harber-Aschan and Ben Wilson. Persistent Educational Inequality among the Children and Grandchildren of Refugees?

2022

• SRRD 2022:25 Andersson, Linus. Final version published 2023 in Population and Development Review. 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. Final version published 2022 in The Journals of Gerontology. Older Adults’ Internal Migration Toward Faraway Siblings 
• SRRD 2022:20 Wallace, Matthew and Sven Drefahl. Final version published 2023 in Population Health.Against the grain: International migrants, the children of migrants and national life expectancy in Sweden, 1990–2019
• SRRD 2022:19 Kawalerowicz, Juta, Agneta Cederström, Eva Andersson and Bo Malmberg. Final version published 2023 in Geo Journal. 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. Final version published 2024 in Population Studies. 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. Final version published in Sociological Science. 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. Final version published 2022 in Population Space and Place. Internal migration in the time of Covid: Who moves out of the inner city of Stockholm and where do they go?
• SRRD 2022:03 Peters, Steffen and Kieron Barclay. Final version published 2025 in Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. Leadership skills and family formation among males. A study based on Swedish register data
• 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. Final verison published 2023 in Demography. 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. Final version published 2022 in Research Handbook on Leave Policy. Do leave policies impact fertility? The case of immigrants from low-fertility countries in Sweden
• SRRD 2021:21 Artamonova, Alyona, Brian Joseph Gillespie. Published 2022 in The Journals of Gerontology. Older adults’ internal migration toward faraway siblings
• SRRD 2021:20 Wallace, Matthew, Michael J Thomas, José Manuel Aburto, Anna Vera Jørring Pallesen, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Astri Syse, Sven Drefahl. Final version published 2022 in Population Health. Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019e Expectancy: a Comparative Study of Four Nordic Nations
• SRRD 2021:19 Wallace, Matthew. Final version published in European Journal of Population. Mortality Advantage Reversed: The Causes of Death Driving All-Cause Mortality Differentials Between Immigrants, the Descendants of Immigrants 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. Final version published 2023 in Journal of Population Sciences. Convergence and persistent contrasts in the determinants of working-age women in Sweden and Japan living alone since the 1990s
• SRRD 2021:08 Mussino, Eleonora, Stefano Cantalini. Final version published 2024 in Int. Migration and Integration. Multiple Origins and Multiple Destinations: The Fertility of Immigrant Women 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. Final version published 2022 in Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 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?

2020

• SRRD 2020:52 Kolk, Martin. Final version published 2021 in Journal of Development Studies. Government Transfers to Parents and Population Policy in a Global Perspective: An Economic Demographic Approach
• SRRD 2020:51 Svallfors, Signe. Contraceptive Choice as Risk Reduction? The Importance of Local Violence for Uptake of Female Sterilization in Colombia. Final version published 2021 in Population Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2021.1953118
• SRRD 2020:50 Svallfors, Signe. The Remarkable Stability of Fertility Desires during the Colombian Armed Conflict 2000–2016. Final version published 2021 in  Population, Space and Place: e2514. 
• SRRD 2020:49 Saarela, Jan, Martin Kolk. Birth Order and Alcohol-related Mortality by Ethnic Origin and National Context: Within-family Comparisons for Finland and Sweden. Final version published 2021 in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108859
• SRRD 2020:48 Uggla, Caroline, Eleonora Mussino, Siddartha Aradhya. Final version published 2022 in Sage Journals. Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following separation? Sweden 1997–2015
• SRRD 2020:47 Mussino, Eleonora, Stefano Cantalini. Multiple-origin and Multiple-destination: the Fertility of Migrants in Europe. Final version published 2024 as "Multiple Origins and Multiple Destinations: The Fertility of Immigrant Women in Europe" in Journal of International Migration and Integration, DOI: 10.1007/s12134-024-01121-4
• SRRD 2020:46 Andersson, Gunnar. A Review of Policies and Practices Related to the “Highest-Low” Fertility of Sweden: A 2020 Update 
• SRRD 2020:45 Samuelsson, Jonas. Partner Age Gap and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
• SRRD 2020:44 Aradhya, Siddartha, Maria Brandén, Sven Drefahl, Ognjen Obućina, Gunnar Andersson, Mikael Rostila, Eleonora Mussino, Sol P. Juárez. Lack of Acculturation Does Not Explain Excess COVID-19 Mortality among Immigrants. A Population-based Cohort Study. Final version published 2021 as "Intermarriage and COVID-19 mortality among immigrants: A population-based cohort study from Sweden" in BMJ Open, 11(9): e048952.
• SRRD 2020:43 Svallfors, Signe. Hidden Casualties: The Links between Armed Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia. Final version published 2021 in Politics & Gender, 1-33, DOI:10.1017/S1743923X2100043X
• SRRD 2020:42 Khaef, Samaneh. Registration of Immigrants’ Educational Attainment in Sweden: an Analysis of Sources and Time. Final version published 2022 in Genus 78, 16
• SRRD 2020:41 Cheng, Yen-hsin Alice, Martin Kolk. An East–West Dichotomy? Shifting Marriage Age Patterns in Taiwan and Sweden over Two Centuries. Final version published 2021 in The History of the Family, DOI:10.1080/1081602X.2021.1931404
• SRRD 2020:40 Wallace, M., Wilson, B. and Darlington-Pollock, F. Final version published 2022 in Comparative Migration Studies, 10(18): 1-21. Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales
• SRRD 2020:39 Rostila, Mikael, Agneta Cederström, Matthew Wallace, Maria Brandén, Bo Malmberg, Gunnar Andersson. Disparities in Covid-19 Deaths by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: a Total Population Based Cohort Study. Final version published 2021 in American Journal of Epidemiology: kwab057.
• SRRD 2020:38 Schubert, Henrik-Alexander. Encouraging Mothers: The Effect of German Regional Childcare Policies on Maternal Employment between 2006 and 2018
• SRRD 2020:37 Cozzani,Marco, Siddartha Aradhya, Alice Goisis. The Cognitive Development from Childhood to Adolescence of Low Birth Weight Children Born after Medical Assisted Reproduction – a UK Longitudinal Cohort Study. Final version published 2021 in International Journal of Epidemiology: dyab009.  
• SRRD 2020:36 Billingsley, Sunnee, Maria Brandén, Siddartha Aradhya, Sven Drefahl, Gunnar Andersson, Eleonora Mussino. Deaths in the Frontline: Occupation-Specific COVID-19 Mortality Risks in Sweden. Final version published in 2022 as "COVID-19 mortality across occupations and secondary risks for elderly individuals in the household: A population register-based study" in Scand J Work Environ Health, 48(1), 52-60.   
• SRRD 2020:35 Lindström, Jonathan, Eleonora Mussino, Livia Oláh. Final version published in Journal of Population Research. Childbearing among Polish migrant women and their descendants in Sweden: an origin-destination country approach
• SRRD 2020:34 Oláh, Livia, Lena Karlsson, Glenn Sandström. Committed to Independence? An Exploratory Study of Living-Apart-Together (LAT) in Contemporary Sweden. Final version published 2021 in Journal of Family Issues, DOI:10.1177/0192513X211041988
• SRRD 2020:33 Carlsson, Erik. The Realization of Short-term Fertility Intentions among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants in Norway and Sweden. Final version published 2022 in International Migration Review, DOI: 10.1177/01979183221107930
• SRRD 2020:32 Andersson, Gunnar. Family Behavior of Migrants: An Overview. Final version published 2021 In: Schneider, N., and Kreyenfeld, M., Eds., Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family: 263-276. Research Handbooks in Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781788975544.00026
• SRRD 2020:31 Brandén, Maria, Siddartha Aradhya, Martin Kolk, Juho Härkönen, Sven Drefahl, Bo Malmberg, Mikael Rostila, Agneta Cederström, Gunnar Andersson, Eleonora Mussino. Residential Context and COVID-19 Mortality among the Elderly in Stockholm: a Population-based, Observational Study. Final version published 2020 in Lancet Healthy Longevity 1 (2): E80-E88.
• SRRD 2020:30 Andersson, Linus. Oh Half Brother, Where Art Thou? The Boundaries for Full- and Half Sibling Interaction. Final version published 2020 in Demographic Research 43(16): 431-460.
• SRRD 2020:29 Ma, Li, Curt Hagquist, Annette Løvheim Kleppang. Leisure Time Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents in Sweden. Final version published 2020 in BMC Public Health 20, 997. 
• SRRD 2020:28 Jalovaara, Marika, Linus Andersson, Anneli Miettinen. Final version published 2021 in Population Studies. Parity disparity: Educational differences in Nordic fertility across parities and number of reproductive partners
• SRRD 2020:27 Saarela, Jan, Martin Kolk. Alcohol-related Mortality by Ethnic Origin: Findings Based on Multigenerational Population Register Data from Finland and Sweden. Final version published 2020 in BMJ Open 10:e042234.
• SRRD 2020:26 Gähler, Michael, Livia Olah. Final version published 2025 in Journal of Family research. Parental Divorce, Maternal Employment, and Attitudes to Gender Equality in Sweden
• SRRD 2020:25 Batyra, Ewa, Ben Wilson, Ernestina Coast, Valeria Cetorelli. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting across Africa: Dynamics of Change and Socioeconomic Variation. Final version published 2020 in BMJ Global Health: e003088.
• SRRD 2020:24 Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Linda Kridahl. Do Couples Manage Money Differently at Different Ages? A Study on What Leads to Couples’ Economic Conflicts. Final version published 2021 as "Best done differently? Couples’ money pooling and the association with economic conflicts" in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, DOI:10.1177/02654075211056561
• SRRD 2020:23 Drefahl, Sven, Matthew Wallace, Eleonora Mussino, Siddartha Aradhya, Martin Kolk, Maria Brandén, Bo Malmberg, Gunnar Andersson. Socio-demographic Risk Factors of COVID-19 Deaths in Sweden: a Nationwide Register Study. Final version published 2020 in Nature Communications 11: 5097.
• SRRD 2020:22 Mussino, E., Wilson, B. and Andersson, G. Final version published 2021 in Demography, 58(6): 2169–2191. The fertility of immigrants from low fertility settings: Adaptation in the tempo and quantum of childbearing?
• SRRD 2020:21 Kridahl, Linda, Ann-Zofie Duvander. Final version published 2023 in Journal of Family and Economic Issues. Money Management Among Older Married and Cohabiting Couples in Sweden
• SRRD 2020:20 *Saarela, J., and *Wilson, B. Final version published 2022 in Demography, 59(2): 707-729. Forced migration and the childbearing of women and men: A disruption of the tempo and quantum of fertility?, *Shared first-authorship
• SRRD 2020:19 Drefahl, Sven, Eleonora Mussino. How Does the Age of the Child Affect Parental Survival? Final version published 2023 in Genus, 79(10)
• SRRD 2020:18 Weber, Rosa, Jan Saarela. Who Migrates in a Setting of Free Mobility? Assessing the Reason for Migration and Integration Patterns using Cross-national Register Data from Finland and Sweden. Final version published 2023 in European Journal of Population, 39(17).
• SRRD 2020:17 Uggla, Caroline, Ben Wilson. Age Gaps between Partners among Immigrants and Their Descendants: Adaptation across Time and Generations? Final version published 2021 in Population Studies, doi:10.1080/00324728.2021.1998583
• SRRD 2020:16 Saarela, Jan, Martin Kolk, Ognjen Obućina. Final version published 2025 in European Sociological Review. Kinship, Heritage and Ethnic Choice: Ethnolinguistic Registration across Four Generations in Contemporary Finland
• SRRD 2020:15 Tønnessen, Marianne, Siddartha Aradhya, Eleonora Mussino. How the War in Syria Changed the Demography of Sweden and Norway - a Demographic Butterfly Effect. Final version published 2021 in PLOS ONE 16(1): e0244670.
• SRRD 2020:14 Aradhya, Siddartha, Raffaele Grotti, Juho Härkönen. Heterogeneous Unemployment Dynamics of Ancestral Swedes and Second-Generation Immigrants. Final version published 2023 in European Sociological Review: jcac071
• SRRD 2020:13 Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Karin Halldén, Alison Koslowski, Gabriella Sjögren Lindquist. Published 2024 in Journal of Social Policy as Income Loss and Leave Taking: Increased Financial Benefits and Fathers’ Parental Leave Use in Sweden. Also published 2021 in Societies as Similar negotiations over childcare? A comparative study of fathers’ parental leave use in Finland and Sweden 
• SRRD 2020:12 Mureşan, Cornelia, Livia Oláh. Men’s First Partnership Formation in Four Former State-Socialist Countries during the Transition Period. Final version published 2020 in Romanian Journal of Population Studies 13(2): 35-52.
• SRRD 2020:11 Kolk, Martin, Kieron Barclay. Do Income and Marriage Mediate the Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Fertility? Data from Swedish Taxation and Conscriptions Registers for Men Born 1951-1967. Final version published 2021 in Intelligence 84: 101514. 
• SRRD 2020:10 Klængur Jónsson, Ari. Friends or Foes: Semi-Formalized Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Stability in Iceland, 1995-2013 
• SRRD 2020:09 Turunen, Jani, Maria Brandén, Karin Lundström. Geographical Distance between Child and Parent after a Union Dissolution in Sweden 1974-2011. Final version published 2023 in Demographic Research 48(17): 439-482 
• SRRD 2020:08 Capkova, Klara, Marika Jalovaara. Educational Disadvantages in Single Fatherhood and Single Motherhood Family Pathways
• SRRD 2020:07 Comoli, Chiara. Resources and Aspirations during the Great Recession: the Impact on the Transition to Motherhood. Final version published 2021 in Advances in Life Course Research: 100405.
• SRRD 2020:06 Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Eleonora Mussino, Jussi Tervola. Final version published 2021 in Sociieties. Negotiations over Childcare? A Comparative Study of Fathers’ Parental Leave Use in Finland and Sweden
• SRRD 2020:05 Härkönen, Juho, Sunnee Billingsley, Maria Hornung. Divorce Trends in Seven Countries Over the Long Transition from State Socialism: 1981–2004. Final version published 2020 in Mortelmans D. (eds) Divorce in Europe. European Studies of Population, vol 21. Springer, Cham.
• SRRD 2020:04 Keenan, Katherine, Kieron Barclay, and Alice Goisis. Final version published 2022 in Population Studies. Health Outcomes of Only Children across the Life Course: an Investigation Using Swedish Register Data 
• SRRD 2020:03 Vogiazides, Louisa, and Hernan Mondani. Geographical Trajectories of Refugees in Sweden. Uncovering Patterns and Drivers of Inter-regional (Im)mobility. Final version published 2020 in Journal of Refugee Studies: feaa074.
• SRRD 2020:02 Wallace, Matthew, and Ben Wilson. Age Variations and Over-Coverage: Is the Migrant Mortality Advantage Merely a Data Artefact?  Final version published 2021 in Population Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2021.1877331
• SRRD 2020:01 Dabergott, Filip. Final version published 2021 in Population Studies. The Gendered Widowhood Effect and Social Mortality Gap 

Working papers 2010-2019

Working papers before 2010