Sunnee BillingsleyProfessor i sociologi

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Sunnee Billingsley is a Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University in 2009.

Her expertise spans a broad range of themes, centering on social demography, family sociology and social stratification. Her main interest is in how social stratification, social policy, and social change shape population dynamics and life chances. She uses statistical analyses of both register and survey data in her work.

Recent and ongoing research engages with three main areas: 1) how intensive parenting attitudes impact health, fertility and careers; 2) how climate change affects maternal, reproductive and child health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; 3) the determinants of fertility.

Five most recent publications (full CV in link on right):

Svallfors, S., Billingsley, S., Østby, G., & Aradhya, S. (2025) Armed conflict and birthweight: The role of organized violence and anti-coca fumigation in Colombia. Social Science & Medicine, 381.

Mollborn, S., & Billingsley, S. (2025). Are Intensive Parenting Attitudes Internationally Generalizable? The Case of Sweden. Journal of Family Issues, 46(6): 1079-1108

Billingsley, S., Grace, K., & Bakhtsiyarava, M. (2025). Climate Change and Getting Pregnant: Weather Exposure and a Full Accounting of Conceptions in Armenia and Tajikistan. Popul Environ, 47(24).

Billingsley, S., Gonalons-Pons, P., & Duvander, A. (2024). How family dynamics shape income inequality between families with young children: The case of Sweden, 1995-2018. Population and Development Review, 50(4): 1181-1208.

Mussino, E., Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., Billingsley, S., Aradhya, S., 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 Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden. Demographic Research, 50(1): 1-40.