MPIDR Working Papers

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WP-2026-033: The effects of fertility timing on women’s wages: a comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom

Linda Vecgaile and Juho Härkönen

WP-2026-032: Convergence and divergence: from life-course trajectories to age 50 to projections of gendered old-age income inequality in Germany

Linda Vecgaile

WP-2026-031: The timing of poverty prevention: how early can women’s near-retirement poverty risk be detected?

Linda Vecgaile

WP-2026-030: Fertility measurement in data-constrained settings: possibilities and limitations of a Facebook-recruited network reporting survey in Senegal

Jessica Donzowa, Daniela Perrotta, Dennis Feehan and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2026-029: Bilateral flows and rates of subnational and international migration of scholars worldwide by gender and field

Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Tom Theile and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2026-028: Family echo chambers and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: longitudinal evidence from the UK

Laura Leone P., Emilie Counil and Daniela Perrotta

WP-2026-027: Compression or expansion of morbidity: evaluating life expectancy with and without cardiovascular diseases in Denmark

Chiara Micheletti, Cosmo Strozza, Alyson A. van Raalte and Iñaki Permanyer

WP-2026-026: A natural experiment reveals the impact of geopolitical shocks on the trajectory of a nation’s scientific enterprise

Huaxia Zhou, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Mengyi Sun, Emilio Zagheni and Luis A. Nunes Amaral

WP-2026-025: Geographical heterogeneity in temperature-related deaths in Europe

Rosanna Gualdi and Risto Conte Keivabu

WP-2026-024: Wildfires and birth outcomes: evidence from Spain

Risto Conte Keivabu and Maria Rubio-Cabanez

WP-2026-023: Unequal adaptation: socioeconomic stratification in short-term mobility responses to wildfire hazards in Spain

Matt Mason, Sophia Noel, Lovisa Rosenquist Ohlsson, Zarmeen Salim, Risto Conte Keivabu, Daniela Perrotta and Asli Ebru Şanlitürk

WP-2026-022: Childhood behavior and sexual debut in adolescence: a Danish National Birth Cohort study

Steffen Peters, Anne Gaml-Sørensen, Cecilia H. Ramlau-Hansen, Katrine Strandberg-Larsen, Fartein A. Torvik and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2026-021: Not just heat: place-based vulnerability to temperature extremes overestimated in Europe without including measures of adaptive capacity

Zoé Haskell-Craig, Sara Ronnkvist, Abbie Robinson, Domenico Bovienzo, Risto Conte Keivabu, Mathew Hauer and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2026-020: Modeling international migration flows by integrating multiple data sources

Maciej J. Dańko, Emanuele Del Fava, Arkadiusz Wiśniowski and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2026-019: Global improvements in the representation of women in science are stalling

Julie Sojin Kim, José I. Carrasco Armijo, Samvardhan Vishnoi, Yuqi Liang, Meagan Lauber, Julian D. Cortes, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Ugofilippo Basellini and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2026-018: Global sequencing of researcher migration reveals factors associated with disparities in subnational patterns of brain gain and drain

Hannah Slocombe, Francisco Rowe and Aliakbar Akbaritabar

WP-2026-017: The role of family networks in male Mexican migration to the United States over time

Abigail Tun Mendicuti, Claudia Masferrer, Clara H. Mulder and Emilio Zagheni

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