MPIDR Working Papers

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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 Ask Torvik, Maria Lyster 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 validity of microsimulated kinship networks using Swedish population registers

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 Joseph 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-2025-016: Disparities in cancer stage at diagnosis, treatment, and mortality across socioeconomic groups in Finland

Xianhua Zai, Peng Li, Luca Dei Bardi, Kaarina Korhonen, Margherita Moretti, Mikko Myrskylä and Pekka Martikainen

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, Marilia 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 Boy Domingo 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 Ignacio 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

WP-2025-002: The role of family complexity in mental and physical health in mid-adulthood

Philipp Dierker, Mine Kühn and Zachary Van Winkle

WP-2025-001: Economic uncertainty and men’s fertility: analysing the 2010s fertility decline in Finland by field of education and employment characteristics

Julia Hellstrand, Jessica Nisén and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2024-041: From efficiency to illness: do highly automatable jobs take a toll on health in Germany?

Mariia Vasiakina and Christian Dudel

WP-2024-040: Secularization and low fertility: how declining church membership changes couples and their childbearing

Henrik-Alexander Schubert, Vegard Skirbekk and Jessica Nisén

WP-2024-039: The COVID-19 pandemic changed the socioeconomic composition of parents: a register-based study of 76.5 million live births in 12 countries

Moritz Oberndorfer, Juha Luukkonen, Hanna M. Remes, Thomas Waldhör, Lizbeth Burgos Ochoa, Marta Rado, Jasper V. Been, Enny S. Paixao, Ila R. Falcão and Pekka Martikainen

WP-2024-038: Volunteering during early retirement reduces depression

Angelo Lorenti, Alessandra De Rose and Filomena Racioppi

WP-2024-037: Global gender gaps in the international migration of professionals on LinkedIn

Elizabeth M. Jacobs, Tom Theile, Daniela Perrotta, Xinyi Zhao, Athina Anastasiadou and Emilio Zagheni

WP-2024-036: Demographic transitions and lifestyle factors: quantifying the burden of smoking-attributable diseases on Germany's healthcare system

Carla Rowold and Joan E. Madia

WP-2024-035: The changing social gradient in age at menarche across cohorts and generations in Norway

Martin Flatø, D. Susie Lee, Jonas Minet Kinge, Maria C. Magnus, Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2024-034: Multiple births mortality by maternal age at birth: a within-family analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data on 42 low-income countries

D. Susie Lee, Kieron J. Barclay, Maria C. Magnus, Andreas Ernst and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2024-033: Do genetics shape mental health trajectories around partnership transitions?

Philipp Dierker, Maria Gueltzow, Hannu Lahtinen, Mine Kühn, Pekka Martikainen and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2024-032: Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe

Su Y. Jang, Anna Oksuzyan, Frank J. van Lenthe, Mikko Myrskylä and Silvia Loi

WP-2024-031: Time and money: parental leave generosity and first-time parents’ uptake of leave across 23 European countries

Nathan Robbins

WP-2024-030: Is “being there” enough? Father’s instrumental support and union dissolution among disadvantaged families

Nathan Robbins

WP-2024-029: Arriaga meets Kitagawa: life expectancy decomposition with population subgroups

Timothy Riffe, Rustam Tursun-Zade and Sergi Trias Llimós

WP-2024-028: Identity and marriage: a bidirectional approach based on evidence from Finland

Steffen Peters, Rasmus Mannerström and Katariina Salmela-Aro

WP-2024-027: Gender norms and partnership dissolution following involuntary job loss in Germany

Rishabh Tyagi, Peter Eibich and Vegard Skirbekk

WP-2024-026: Employment uncertainty and reproductive decisions in Norway: a register-based study based on plant closures

Rishabh Tyagi

WP-2024-025: Housewives never retire!? Gender biases in popular sample definitions for studies on the elderly

Carla Rowold

WP-2024-024: Joint pot or separate purses? Unpacking the cohabitation-marriage gap in income pooling across Europe

Flavia Mazzeo, Nicole Hiekel and Agnese Vitali

WP-2024-023: Uncovering what matters: family life course aspects and personal wealth in late working age

Nicole Kapelle and Carla Rowold

WP-2024-022: Working longer despite poorer health? Inequalities in working and health expectancies at older ages in South Korea

Anastasia A. Lam, Katherine Keenan, Hill Kulu and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2024-021: Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life course experiences for gender inequalities

Carla Rowold

WP-2024-020: Do his or her economic characteristics matter? A couple-level perspective on the transition to living together in Germany

Valeria Ferraretto, Nicole Hiekel and Agnese Vitali