Stockholms universitet

Publications

WP1 Publications:

  1. Mussino, E., Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., Billingsley, S., Aradhya, S. and Andersson, G. 2024. 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): 1-40. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2024.50.1.
  2. Billingsley, S., Brandén, M., Aradhya, S., Drefahl, S., Andersson, G. and Mussino, E. 2022. COVID-19 mortality across occupations and secondary risks for elderly individuals in the household: A population register-based study. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 48(1): 52-60. DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3992.
  3. Aradhya, S., Brandén, M., Drefahl, S., Obućina, O., Andersson, G., Rostila, M., Mussino, E. and Juárez, S. 2021. Intermarriage and COVID-19 mortality among immigrants: A population-based cohort study from Sweden. BMJ Open 11(9): e048952. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-048952. 
  4. Rostila, M., Cederström, A., Wallace, M., Brandén, M., Malmberg, B. and Andersson, G. 2021. Disparities in Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality by country of birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A total-population-based cohort study. American Journal of Epidemiology 190(8): 1510-1518. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwab057.
  5. Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., Mussino, E., Aradhya, S., Kolk, M., Brandén, M., Malmberg, B. and Andersson, G. 2020. A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in Sweden. Nature Communications 11: 5097. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18926-3.
  6. Brandén, M., Aradhya, S., Kolk, M., Härkönen, J. Drefahl, S., Malmberg, B., Rostila, M., Cederström, A., Andersson, G. and Mussino, E. 2020. Residential context and COVID-19 mortality among adults aged 70 years and older in Stockholm: a population-based, observational study using individual-level data. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 1(2): e80-e88. DOI: 10.1016/s2666-7568(20)30016-7.
  7. Brändström, A., Meyer, A. C., Modig, K., Sandström, G. 2021. Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: nationwide register-based study. European Journal of Ageing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00669-9
  8. Meyer A., Ek, S., Drefahl, S., Hedström, M., Ahlbom, A., Modig, K. 2021. Trends in incidence, recurrence and survival in hip fractures by education and comorbidity: A nationwide register-based study of the total Swedish population 1998 to 2017. Epidemiology. Volume Publish Ahead of Print.
  9. Modig, K., Ahlbom, A., Ebeling, M. 2021. Excess mortality from covid-19 weekly excess death rates by age and sex for Sweden and its most affected region. European Journal of Public Health 31(1): 17-22.
  10. Ebeling, M., Meyer, A., Modig, K. 2020.The rise in the number of long-term survivors from different diseases can slow the increase in life expectancy of the total population. BMC Public Health 20:1523
  11. Kolk, M., Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., and Andersson, G. 2022. “Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account”. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022, Vol. 20. DOI: 10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res2.2.
  12. Modig, K., Rau, R., Ahlbom, A. 2020. Life expectancy – a useful measure in epidemiology? BMJ Open 2020;10:e035932
  13. Gémes, K., Talbäck, M., Modig, K., Ahlbom, A., Berglund, A., Feychting, M., Matthews, A. 2020. Burden and prevalence of prognostic factors for severe covid-19 disease in Sweden. European Journal of Epidemiology 35(5):401-409.
  14. Meyer, A., Drefahl, S., Lambe, M., Ahlbom, A., Modig, K. 2020. Trends in life expectancy: Did the gap between the healthy and the ill widen or close? BMC Med 18, 41.
  15. Modig, K., Erdefelt, A., Mellner, C., Cederholm, T., Talbäck, M., Hedstrom, M. 2019. Obesity paradox holds true for hip fracture patients– a prospective register-based cohort study. The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, 5/15/2019.
  16. Meyer, A., Brooke, H., Modig, K. 2019. The role of children and their socioeconomic resources for the risk of hospitalisation and mortality – A nationwide register-based study of the total Swedish population over the age 70. BMC Geriatrics 19:114.
  17. Modig, K., Meyer, A., Talbäck, M., Ziegler, L., Ahlbom, A. 2019. Temporal trends in incidence, recurrence and prevalence of stroke in an era of ageing populations: a longitudinal study of the total Swedish population. BMC Geriatrics 19:31.
  18. Modig, K., Drefahl, S., Ahlbom, A. 2018. Närmar vi oss gränsen? Läkartidningen 2018; 115:E7Y3.
  19. Ebeling, M., Modig, K., Ahlbom, A., Rau, R. 2018. The effects of increasing longevity and changing incidence on lifetime risk differentials: A decomposition approach. PLOS One. Published April 19, 2018.
  20. Modig, K., Andersson, T., Rau, R., Vaupel, J., Ahlbom, A. 2017. How long do centenarians survive? Life expectancy and maximum life span. Journal of Internal Medicine 282(2): 156-163.
  21. Modig, K., Berglund, A., Talbäck, M., Ljung, R., Ahlbom, A. 2017. Estimating incidence and prevalence from population registers. Example from myocardial infarction. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 45 (17_suppl): 5-13.

WP1 Working papers and peer-reviewed conference presentations

  • Meyer, A., Drefahl, S., Ahlbom, A., Modig K. 2019. One year per decade? The increase in life expectancy of individuals with disease compared to the general population. Presentation to the 21st Nordic Demographic Symposium, June 13-15, 2019, Reykjavik.
  • Ebeling, M., Meyer, A., Modig, K. 2019. The effect of diseases on national longevity improvements. Presentation to the 21st Nordic Demographic Symposium, June 13-15, 2019, Reykjavik.
  • Modig, K., Andersson, T., Ahlbom, A., 2019. Future demographic challenges of ageing are countered by declining incidence rates for myocardial infarction and stroke, but not for hip fractures. Presentation to the 21st Nordic Demographic Symposium, June 13-15, 2019, Reykjavik.
  • Drefahl, S., Mussino, E. 2019. Parental mortality by age of the child. Presentation to the 21st Nordic Demographic Symposium, June 13-15, 2019, Reykjavik.

WP2 Publications:

  1. Kolk, M. 2023. The relationship between lifecourse accumulated income and childbearing of Swedish men and women. Population Studies, 77(2): 197-215 
  2. Kolk, M., Skirbekk, V. 2022. Fading Family Lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden. Advances in Life Course Research, 53: 100481
  3. Grätz, M., Kolk, M. 2022. Sibling Similarity in Income: A Life Course Perspective. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 78: 100688
  4. Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Kolk, M., and Zhageni, E. 2021. Women's experience of child death over the life course: A global demographic perspective. Demography, 58(5): 1715-1735
  5. Barclay, K., Kolk, M. 2019. Parity and Mortality: An examination of different explanatory mechanisms using data on biological and adoptive Parents. European Journal of Population, 35(1): 63-85
  6. Oláh, L. Sz., and Neyer, G. 2021. Demographic challenges of Europe in the new millennium: Swedish family policies as an answer to them? In J. Aidukaite, S.E.O. Hort and S. Kuhnle (eds.) Challenges to the Welfare State. Family and Pension Policies in the Baltic and Nordic Countries (pp. 33-51). Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106118.00010
  7. Oláh, Livia Sz., Vignoli, D., Kotowska, I.E. 2021. "Gender roles and families", In K.F. Zimmermann (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_23-1
  8. Artamonova, A., Gillespie, B.J., and Brandén, M. 2020. "Geographic mobility among older people and their adult children: The role of parents' health issues and family ties", Population, Space and Place, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2371 
  9. Artamonova, A., Gillespie, B.J. 2022. "Geographic proximity to siblings in older adulthood". Demographic Research, 49(7): 143–156. https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/49/7
  10. Zilincikova, Z., Linares, I. P., Artamonova, A., Brandén, M., Schnor, C. 2023. Residential choice following separation and widowhood in middle and later life in Belgium and Sweden. Population, Space and Place, e2709. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2709

WP2 Working papers and peer-reviewed conference presentations

  • Ohlsson-Wijk, S., Oláh, L. and Duvander, A.-Z. 2022. Late first childbearing over time in Sweden – the role of education and work. Conference paper, presented at the Nordic Demographic symposium (NDS) in Oslo, June 8-9, 2022.
  • Kolk, M. 2019. The relationship between life-course accumulated income and childbearing of Swedish men and women born 1940-1970. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2019:19.
  • Ohlsson-Wijk, S, Oláh, L. and Duvander, A.-Z. 2019. Late childbearing: Correlates and developments over time in Sweden. Conference paper, presented at the ESPA-net conference (The European Network for Social Policy Analysis) in Stockholm, September 5-7, 2019

WP3 Publications: 

  1. Shi, J., Kolk, M. 2023. The inequality of lifetime pensions. Sociological Science, 10(24): 667-693
  2. Shi, J., Kolk, M. 2022. How does mortality contribute to lifetime pension inequality? Evidence from five decades of Swedish taxation data. Demography, 59(5): 1843–1871
  3. Saarela, J., Kolk, M. 2020. Alcohol-related mortality by ethnic origin of natives: A prospective cohort study based on multigenerational population register data from Finland and Sweden. BMJ Open, 10: e042234
  4. Schmauk, S. & Kridahl, L. (forthcoming). Gendered consequences of divorce on old-age security in West Germany and Sweden, Ageing & Society. 
  5. Stenström, K., Kridahl, L. & Duvander, A. 2023. Economic independence and togetherness - Money practices among couples in the third age in Sweden. Families, Relationships & Societies, 1-19.
  6. Kridahl, L. & Duvander, A. 2023. Relationship satisfaction and money pooling among older working and retired couples in Sweden. Family Relations.
  7. Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2022. Financial Disagreements and Money Management Among Older Married and Cohabiting Couples in Sweden. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 
  8. Duvander, A-Z., Kridahl, L. 2021. Best done differently? Couples’ money pooling and the association with economic conflicts. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 39(5): 1344-1368
  9. Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2021. Are Mothers and Daughters Most Important? How Gender, Childhood Family Dissolution and Parents’ Current Living Arrangements Affect the Personal Care of Parents. Social Sciences 10(5): 160
  10. Kridahl, L., Silverstein, M. 2020. Retirement and aging parents in the Swedish population. Journal of Population Ageing. Journal of Population Ageing 13: 81-112
  11. Kridahl, L., Kolk, M. 2018. Retirement coordination in opposite-sex and same-sex married couples: Evidence from Swedish registers. Advances in Life-Course Research, 38: 22-36.
  12. Kridahl, L. 2017 Retirement timing and grandparenthood in Sweden: Evidence from population-based register data. Demographic Research 37(31): 957-994.
  13. Kridahl, L. 2017. Time for Retirement – Studies on how leisure and family associate with retirement timing in Sweden. PhD Thesis, Stockholm University Demography Unit Dissertation Series.

WP3 Working papers and peer-reviewed conference presentations

  • Kridahl, L., Ohlsson-Wijk, S., Duvander, A. 2022. What matters most? The role of late fatherhood and grandfatherhood on retirement timing in Sweden. Available as pre-print Stockholm Research Reports in Demography SRRD 2022:21
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2022. Relationship satisfaction and the role of bargaining power and pooling of money in older couples in Sweden. Available as preprint Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2022:02. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.18977900.v1
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2020. “Why did you spend money on that?” Older partners' economic conflicts and management of household money in Sweden. Available as preprint Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2020:21. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.12293036.v1
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A.-Z. 2019. Filial care in Sweden: Does childhood family dissolution and parents’ present living arrangements matter for adult children’s support? Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2019: 12.
  • Karlsson, L. 2019. Informal help by adult children? A comparison among 19 European countries.  Working Paper, Umeå University.
  • Holland, J., Perelli-Harris, B., Andersson, G. 2017. “Does marriage matter?” revisited: The fertility, mortality and stability of the Swedish 1989 marriage boom cohort. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2017: 29.
  • Kridahl, L., Ohlsson-Wijk, S and Duvander, A-Z. 2023. Eonomic Predictors of Late Life Divorce: A ‘His’ and ‘Her’ Perspective on Resources Presented at the workshop Family diversity in Ageing European Societies, Berlin. May.
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z, and Turunen, J. 2023. Poster: Do my and your children matter? A study of divorce risk among older Swedish couples with focus on the influence of common and stepchildren. Presented at the annual meeting of the Population of America Association (PAA), 12-15 April. 
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z, and Turunen, J. 2023. Do my and your children matter? A study of divorce risk among older Swedish couples with focus on the influence of common and stepchildren. Presented at the 19th Conference of the European Divorce Research Network Conference, 13-15 October.
  • Schmauk, S., Kridahl, L. 2021. Gendered consequences of divorce on old age security in Sweden and West Germany. Presented at 19th Conference of the European Divorce Research Network Conference, 13-15 October.
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2021. Why are you not completely satisfied? Relationship satisfaction, partners’ negotiation power and pooing money among older couples in Sweden. Presented at European Sociological Association's Research Network on Ageing in Europe, 20-22 January, Jyväsjärvi.
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2019. Why are you not completely satisfied? Relationship satisfaction, household money management and economic conflicts among older couples in Sweden. Presented at 5th GGP user conference, in Paris October 22-25 and MIRAI seminar in Stockholm November 11-14, 2019
  • Kridahl, L. 2019. The Perspective from Demography (special impulse session Ageing in Sweden - what is special and what does the future hold?). Presented at International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress (IAGGER), Gothenburg May 23-25, 2019 (Invited presentation)
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2019. Older partners' economic conflicts and organization of household income in Sweden. Presented at International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress (IAGGER), Gothenburg May 23-25, 2019
  • Kridahl, L., Duvander, A-Z. 2019. Older partners' economic conflicts and organization of household income in Sweden. Presentation to the 21st Nordic Demographic Symposium, June 13-15, 2019, Reykjavik.
  • Kridahl, L., Qi, H., Duvander, A-Z. 2018. When is retirement? An exploration in subjective and objective retirement definitions using Swedish data. Presented at European Population Conference, Brussels, June 12-15, 2018 and MIRAI Seminar in Gothenburg June, 2018.

WP4 Publications:

  1. Sandström, G., Padyab, M., Noguchi, H., Fu, R. 2023. Convergence and persistent contrasts in the determinants of working-age women in Sweden and Japan living alone since the 1990s. Genus 79(11). Doi: 10.1186/s41118-023-00192-y.
  2. Meyer, A. C., Ebeling, M., Drefahl, S., Hedström, M., Ahlbom, A., Ek, S., Sandström, G., Modig, K. 2022. The impact of hip fracture on gerontological care, living arrangements, and mortality among older Swedes: Mapping care trajectories and their determinants, American Journal of Epidemiology (in press 2022)
  3. Brändström, A., Meyer, A. C., Modig, K., Sandström, G. 2021. Determinants of home care utilization among the Swedish old: Nationwide register-based study. European Journal of Ageing, doi: 10.1007/s10433-021-00669-9
  4. Meyer, A. C., Sandström, G., Modig, K. 2021. Nationwide data on home care and care home residence: Presentation of the Swedish Social Service Register, its content and coverage. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, doi:10.1177/14034948211061016
  5. Oláh L., Karlsson, L., Sandström, G. 2021. Living-Apart-Together (LAT) in Contemporary Sweden: (How) Does It Relate to Vulnerability? Journal of Family Issues. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192513X211041988
  6. Artamonova, A., Brandén,M., Gillespie, B.J., Mulder, C.H. 2021. Adult children's gender, number and proximity and older parents’ moves to institutions: evidence from Sweden. Ageing & Society, DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X21000556
  7. Brändström, A., Sandström, G. 2021. Retirement, Home Care and the Importance of Gender. Historical Life Course Studies 10: 172-179
  8. Sandström, G., Namatovu, F., Ineland, J., Larsson, D., Ng, N., Stattin, M. 2020. The Persistence of High Levels of Living Alone Among Adults with Disabilities in Sweden, 1993–2011. Population Research and Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-020-09570-2
  9. Sandström, G., Karlsson, L. 2019. Gender gaps and educational differences in living alone across Europe. N-IUSSP Magazine.
  10. Padyab, M., Reher, D., Requena, M., Sandström, G. 2019. Going it alone in later life: A comparative analysis of elderly women in Sweden and Spain. Journal of Family Issues 40(8): 1038-1064. 0192513X19831334. doi:1177/0192513X19831334. Also presented at the 2018 annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Denver Colorado, April 26-28.
  11. Requena, M., Reher, D., Padyab, M., Sandström, G. 2019. Women living alone in later life. A multi-country comparative analysis. Population Space and Place: e2269. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2269. Also presented at the 2018 European Population Conference, Brussels, Belgium, June 6-9.
  12. Sandström, G., Karlsson, L. 2019. The educational gradient of living alone: A comparison among the working-age population in Europe. Demographic Research 40(55): 1645-1670. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.55. Also presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Austin Texas, April 10-13.

WP4 Working papers and peer-reviewed conference presentations

  • Sandström, G., Padyab, M., Noguchi, H., Fu, R. 2022. Convergence and persistent contrasts in the determinants of living alone among working age women in Sweden and Japan since the 1990s (submitted in May 2022).
  • Oláh, L. Sz., Karlsson, L., & Sandström, G. 2022. “The changing faces of families: Doing family in diverse family forms and international policy contexts”, book chapter
  • Sandström, G., Padyab, M., Fu, R. 2022. Changes in Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Living Alone among Women in Sweden and Japan since the 1990s (Oral presentation). European Population Conference, 29 June – 2 July 2022, Groningen, Netherlands.
  • Sandström, G., Padyab, M., Noguchi, H., & Fu, R. 2021. Changes in demographic and socioeconomic determinants of living alone among women in Sweden and Japan since the 1990s. (Stockholm Research Reports in Demography, 2021:9). SUDA doi:10.17045/sthlmuni.14402519.v1
  • Padyab, M. 2020. The consequences of changing family behavior for the elderly: comparing Sweden and Japan. MIRAI2.0 Japan-Sweden joint kick-off and scientific webinar, October 7-8. Invited speaker/presentation.
  • Olah, L., Karlsson, L., & Sandström, G. 2020. Committed to independence? An exploratory study of living-apart-together (LAT) in contemporary Sweden. (Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2020:34). SUDA. doi:10.17045/sthlmuni.12668741.v1 
  • Reher, D. S., Requena, M., Santis, G. de, Esteve, A., Bacci, M. L., Padyab, M., & Sandström, G. 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic in an aging world. SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/bfvxt
  • Sandström, G., Padyab, M., Fu, R. 2019. Demographic and socioeconomic determinants of living alone in Sweden and Japan. MIRAI seminar, November 12-14, Stockholm/Uppsala. 
  • Sandström, G. 2019. The big idea, perspectives on the future: Lowest-low fertility and the ageing populations of the West - Causes and consequences? NASDAQ, World Federation of Exchanges Technology Conference, Umeå, June 30-July 2. Invited speaker/presentation.

WP5 Publications:

  1. Andersson, L., Kolk, M. 2023. Kinship and Socioeconomic Status: Social Gradients in Frequencies of Kin Across the Life Course in Sweden. Population Studies, available online
  2. Kolk, M., Andersson, L. Pettersson, E., Drefahl, S. 2023. 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. Demography,  60(5): 1359–1385

WP5 Working papers and peer-reviewed conference presentations:

  • Immonen Hagley, M. 2018. Kinship structure in Sweden 2041. Differences between Swedish born and Iranian born in the birth cohort of 1965-1975. Master Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology.

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