MPIDR Working Papers

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WP-2026-016: When all measures fail the same way: a fundamental correction to American segregation trends

Boris Barron, Matthew Hall, Peter Rich, Itai Cohen and Tomás Arias

WP-2026-015: Grandparenthood related to reduced risk of gray divorce: evidence from 15 countries

Philipp Dierker and Vegard F. Skirbekk

WP-2026-014: Queer family matters: estimates of queer kinship in the United States

Elena Pojman, Carolyn Hong and Diego Alburez-Gutierrez

WP-2026-013: Nearby children, longer lives? Evidence from the Finnish population register

Sanny B. D. Afable, Júlia Mikolai, Megan Evans, Kaarina Korhonen, Yana C. Vierboom, Pekka Martikainen, Hill Kulu and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2026-012: The role of kinship networks in childcare at birth: evidence from three Latin American countries

Mariana Fernández Soto, Ana Escoto, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez and Iván Williams

WP-2026-011: Growing up in a warming world: temperature and child health in India

Vinod J. Kannankeril Joseph

WP-2026-010: From dating to marriage: changes in short-term fertility intentions across partnership transitions

Philipp Dierker, Ariane Ophir and Nicole Hiekel

WP-2026-009: Internationally mobile researchers contribute to scientific production far beyond their share in the population

Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Andrés F. Castro Torres and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2026-008: Patterns of childhood internalising and externalising symptoms and lifetime fertility in the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts

Aapo Hiilamo, Michaela Sedovic, Sanna Kailaheimo-Björkqvist, Aase Villadsen, George B. Ploubidis and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2026-007: Ideology over evidence: pronatalist media discourse and its (dis)connection from U.S. fertility trends

Kelsey Q. Wright, Asli Ebru Şanlitürk and Emily S. Mann

WP-2026-006: A Bayesian parametric model to estimate and reconstruct male age-specific fertility rates

Benjamin-Samuel Schlueter, Schoumaker Bruno and Monica J. Alexander

WP-2026-005: Trends and patterns in childlessness by age, race, ethnicity, and education in the United States: a research note

Benjamin-Samuel Schlueter, Leslie Root and Monica J. Alexander

WP-2026-004: Gender dynamics in international student mobility: the case of the United Kingdom

Ruth Neville and Athina Anastasiadou

WP-2026-003: Self-protection or “othering” discrimination? How information sources link perceived threats and avoidance behaviors toward immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chia-Jung Tsai

WP-2026-002: Parental separation and the accumulation of stress during early life: a pubertal development marker approach

Lara Bister and Philipp Dierker

WP-2026-001: Children´s out-of-home care across Finnish and Norwegian regions: lifetime risks, expected length, and care leaving routes for synthetic cohorts

Aapo Hiilamo, Ragnhild Fugletveit, Joonas Pitkänen, Margherita Moretti, Pekka Martikainen, Åsmund Hermansen and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-037: Who moves where? A family ties perspective on later-life health decline and residential mobility in Finland

Sanny B. D. Afable, Megan Evans, Yana C. Vierboom, Kaarina Korhonen, Pekka Martikainen, Júlia Mikolai, Mikko Myrskylä and Hill Kulu

WP-2025-036: Analysis of intra-annual mortality fluctuations by cause of death in Italy

Isabella Marinetti, Dmitri A. Jdanov, France Meslé, Domantas Jasilionis and Fanny Janssen

WP-2025-035: Partial basic income has positive and no heterogenous effects on mental health – An analysis of the Finnish basic income randomized experiment among people in unemployment

Aapo Hiilamo and Moritz Oberndorfer

WP-2025-034: From early to fewer first births: ADHD and family formation among young adults

Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Niina Metsä-Simola and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-033: How period life expectancy can distort our interpretation of mortality crises

Maria L. Miranda, Ugofilippo Basellini, Enrique Acosta and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2025-032: The hidden costs of technological change: investigating pathways through which highly automatable jobs undermine workers’ health in Germany

Mariia Vasiakina and Christian Dudel

WP-2025-031: Marital dissolution, repartnering, and the realization of fertility desires in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ben Malinga John and Sara Yeatman

WP-2025-030: Educational tracking and fertility

Ziwei Rao, Julia Hellstrand and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-029: Growing divergences: a research note forecasting ultimate childlessness by education in the Nordic countries

Julia Hellstrand, Linus Andersson, Lars Dommermuth, Peter Fallesen, Ari Klængur Jónsson, Marika Jalovaara and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-028: It's who you know — unless you’re famous: professional networks and prestige in scholarly mobility

Alexandra Rottenkolber, Ola Ali, Gergely Mónus, Jiaxuan Li, Jisu Kim, Daniela Perrotta and Aliakbar Akbaritabar

WP-2025-027: The glass is half empty: the role of highly automatable jobs in shaping drinking behaviors in Russia

Mariia Vasiakina and Christian Dudel

WP-2025-026: The mental health consequences of spousal bereavement

Elena Bassoli, Peter Eibich and Emma Zai

WP-2025-025: Subnational birth squeezes: male-female TFR differences across eight high- and middle-income countries over time

Henrik-Alexander Schubert and Christian Dudel

WP-2025-024: Measuring kinship dependency: a cross-national comparison across care regimes

Sha Jiang, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Pil H. Chung and Monica J. Alexander

WP-2025-023: Changing landscapes of parenthood: childbearing among same-sex and different-sex couples in the Nordic countries

Maria Ponkilainen, Elina Einiö, Martin Kolk, Peter Fallesen, Fartein A. Torvik, Maria L. Andersen and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-022: Rethinking children’s family complexity: a multi-conceptual approach with dynamic sequence analysis and fixed effects models

Carla Rowold, Martin Gädecke and Zachary Van Winkle

WP-2025-021: Human capital investment helps mitigate family caregiving challenges in aging China

Sha Jiang, Haili Liang, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2025-020: Assessing the agreement between microsimulated and register-based kin counts in Sweden

Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Martin Kolk and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2025-019: Downstream of hearing loss: a population-based multistate analysis of lifetime risk and years lived with hearing loss, dementia and their comorbidity in Finland

Donata Stonkute, Angelo Lorenti, Kaarina Korhonen, Pekka Martikainen and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-018: Harvesting effect and extreme temperature-related mortality in Italy

Vinod J. Kannankeril Joseph, Risto Conte Keivabu, Raya Muttarak, Emilio Zagheni and Stefano Mazzuco

WP-2025-017: Smoking and the length of working life: an examination using the U.S. health and retirement study

Alessandro Feraldi and Christian Dudel

WP-2025-015: Loneliness as a pathway to immigrant health decline: a longitudinal mediation analysis in Germany

Songyun Shi and Silvia Loi

WP-2025-014: Enduring links: mental health effects of ex-partner’s life events among separated parents

Philipp Dierker, Mine Kühn, Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-013: Seasonal mortality and its impact on spatial inequality in life expectancy across Italy

Isabella Marinetti, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Domantas Jasilionis, Marília R. Nepomuceno and Fanny Janssen

WP-2025-012: First formal romantic unions among 1 st, 2 nd, and 2.5 generations of immigrant women in Finland

Citlali Trigos-Raczkowski, Kelsey Q. Wright, Joonas Pitkänen, Silvia Loi, Pekka Martikainen, Heta Moustgaard and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-011: Are ageing parents and adult children living farther apart? Decomposing trends in intergenerational distance and co-residence in Finland (2003-2017)

Sanny B. D. Afable, Megan Evans, Kaarina Korhonen, Yana C. Vierboom, Pekka Martikainen, Mikko Myrskylä and Hill Kulu

WP-2025-010: Different mental health disorders and childlessness: the importance of partnership status

Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Jessica Nisén, Niina Metsä-Simola, Pekka Martikainen and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-009: Institutional contexts and cognitive health inequalities: an analysis of educational gradients and gender differences in cognitive health expectancy in Europe

Donata Stonkute, Angelo Lorenti and Jo M. Hale

WP-2025-008: Bridging the gap? The moderating role of non-parental childcare use in the gap in maternal employment between immigrants and non-immigrants

Mengyao Wu, Silvia Loi, D. Susie Lee and Alberto del Rey Poveda

WP-2025-007: Consistent patterns across birth parities? Psychological measures and birth parity transitions among Swedish men

Steffen Peters, Kieron J. Barclay, Monika A. Mynarska and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2025-006: Financial strain in Norway: the lifetime risk of and expected time spent in payment problems

Aapo Hiilamo and Åsmund Hermansen

WP-2025-005: Adult children’s unemployment and parental mental health in India: social and economic moderators

Rishabh Tyagi, Anna Baranowska-Rataj and Alexi Gugushvili

WP-2025-004: Gender dynamics in international migration and social networks

Aliakbar Akbaritabar, José I. Carrasco Armijo and Athina Anastasiadou

WP-2025-003: The future of grandparenthood in South Asia: the role of population aging and educational expansion

Saroja Adhikari and Diego Alburez-Gutierrez