MPIDR Working Papers

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WP-2017-016: The decomposition of the difference between two healthy life expectancies: which formula is right?

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov and Evgeny M. Andreev

WP-2017-015: Healthy life expectancy, mortality, and age prevalence of morbidity

Timothy Riffe, Alyson A. van Raalte and Maarten J. Bijlsma

WP-2017-014: Is a positive link between human development and fertility attainable? Insights from the Belgian vanguard case

Jonas Wood, Sebastian Klüsener, Karel Neels and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2017-013: Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula

Maarten J. Bijlsma and Ben Wilson

WP-2017-012: Family organisation and human capital inequalities in historic Europe: testing the association anew

Mikołaj Szołtysek, Radosław Poniat, Sebastian Klüsener and Siegfried Gruber

WP-2017-011: Urban and rural fertility transitions in the developing world: a cohort perspective

Mathias Lerch

WP-2017-010: An ordinal measure of population health

Héctor Pifarré i Arolas and Christian Dudel

WP-2017-009: Trends in gender differences in health and mortality at working ages among West and East Germans

Mine Kühn, Christian Dudel, Tobias C. Vogt and Anna Oksuzyan

WP-2017-008: Does the age difference between partners influence the career achievements of women?

Anna Oksuzyan, Angela Carollo, Sven Drefahl, Carlo G. Camarda, Kaare Christensen and Alyson A. van Raalte

WP-2017-007: A cause-of-death decomposition of the young adult mortality hump

Adrien Remund, Carlo G. Camarda and Timothy Riffe

WP-2017-006: Formation and realisation of moving intentions across the adult life course

Lars Dommermuth and Sebastian Klüsener

WP-2017-004: Sex differences in genetic associations with longevity in Han Chinese: sex-stratified genome-wide association study and polygenic risk score analysis

Yi Zeng, Huashuai Chen, Xiaomin Liu, Rui Ye, Enjun Xie, Zhihua Chen, Jiehua Lu, Jianxin Li, Yaohua Tian, Ting Ni, Lars Bolund, Kenneth C. Land, Anatoliy Yashin, Angela M. O'Rand, Liang Sun, Ze Yang, Wei Tao, Anastasia Gurinovic, Claudio Franceschi, Jichun Xie, Jun Gu, Yong Hou, Xiao Liu, Xun Xu, Jean-Marie Robine, Joris Deelen, Paola Sebastiani, P. Eline Slagboom, Thomas T. Perls, Elizabeth R. Hauser, William Gottschalk, Qihua Tan, Kaare Christensen, Mike Lutz, Xiao-Li Tian, Huanming Yang, Junxia Min, Chao Nie and James W. Vaupel

WP-2017-003: Educational gain in cause-specific mortality: accounting for confounders

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius and Finn Rasmussen

WP-2016-014: The Patriarchy Index: a new measure of gender and generational inequalities in the past

Mikołaj Szołtysek, Radosław Poniat, Siegfried Gruber and Sebastian Klüsener

WP-2016-012: The demographic transition revisited: a cohort perspective

Tomas Frejka

WP-2016-011: Parental age and offspring mortality: negative effects of reproductive aging are outweighed by secular increases in longevity

Kieron J. Barclay and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2016-010: A lost generation? The financial crisis and the length of working life in Spain

Christian Dudel, María A. López Gómez, Fernando G. Benavides and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2016-009: Spatial and social distance in the fertility transition: Sweden 1880-1900

Sebastian Klüsener, Martin Dribe and Francesco Scalone

WP-2016-008: Birth order and college major in Sweden

Kieron J. Barclay, Martin Hällsten and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2016-007: Education, cognitive ability and cause-specific mortality: a structural approach

Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius and Finn Rasmussen

WP-2016-006: Recent trends in US working life expectancy at age 50 by gender, education, and race/ethnicity and the impact of the Great Recession

Christian Dudel and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2016-004: German East-West mortality difference: two cross-overs driven by smoking

Tobias C. Vogt, Alyson A. van Raalte, Pavel Grigoriev and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2016-002: The consequences of sibling rivalry on survival and reproductive success across different ecological contexts: a comparison of the historical Krummhörn and Quebec populations

Jonathan F. Fox, Kai P. Willführ, Alain Gagnon, Lisa Y. Dillon and Eckart Voland

WP-2016-001: Fertility in Rostock in the 19th Century

Siegfried Gruber and Rembrandt D. Scholz

WP-2015-012: Older parents enjoy better filial piety and care from daughters than sons in China

Yi Zeng, Linda George, Melanie Sereny, Danan Gu and James W. Vaupel

WP-2015-011: Producing reliable mortality estimates in the context of distorted population statistics: the case of Moldova

Olga Penina, Dmitri A. Jdanov and Pavel Grigoriev

WP-2015-010: Secular changes in the association between advanced maternal age and the risk of low birth weight: a cross-cohort comparison in the UK

Alice Goisis, Daniel C. Schneider and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2015-009: Advanced maternal age and offspring outcomes: causal effects and countervailing period trends

Kieron J. Barclay and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2015-008: A unified framework of demographic time

Timothy Riffe, Jonas Schöley and Francisco Villavicencio

WP-2015-007: Renewal and stability in populations structured by remaining years of life

Timothy Riffe

WP-2015-006: Is a positive relationship between fertility and economic development emerging at the sub-national regional level? Theoretical considerations and evidence from Europe

Jonathan F. Fox, Sebastian Klüsener and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2015-005: Why does paternal death accelerate the transition to first marriage in the C18-C19 Krummhörn population?

Eckart Voland and Kai P. Willführ

WP-2015-004: Older parents benefit more in health outcome from daughters’ than sons’ care in China

Yi Zeng, Melanie D. Sereny Brasher, Danan Gu and James W. Vaupel

WP-2015-003: Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency

Timothy Riffe, Pil H. Chung, Jeroen J. A. Spijker and John MacInnes

WP-2015-002: An agent-based decision model of migration, embedded in the life course - Model description in ODD+D format

Anna Klabunde, Frans J. Willekens, Sabine Zinn and Matthias Leuchter

WP-2015-001: Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe: recent trends, past path dependencies, and potential future pathways

Sebastian Klüsener

WP-2014-010: Assessment of cross-sectional and longitudinal components of a difference with an algorithm of contour replacement

Dmitri A. Jdanov and Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

WP-2014-009: Regional mortality disparities in Germany: long-term dynamics and possible determinants

Eva U. B. Kibele, Sebastian Klüsener and Rembrandt D. Scholz

WP-2014-008: A golden age before serfdom? The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the 17th-19th centuries

Joerg Baten and Mikołaj Szołtysek

WP-2014-007: The Patriarchy Index: a comparative study of power relations across historic Europe

Siegfried Gruber and Mikołaj Szołtysek

WP-2014-005: The sex differential in mortality: a historical comparison of the adult-age pattern of the ratio and the difference

Oliver Wisser and James W. Vaupel

WP-2014-004: Demographic transitions in Europe and the world

Frans J. Willekens

WP-2014-003: The advantages of demographic change after the wave: fewer and older, but healthier, greener, and more productive?

Fanny A. Kluge, Emilio Zagheni, Elke Loichinger and Tobias C. Vogt

WP-2014-002: Social norms, economic conditions and spatial variation of childbearing within cohabitation across Europe

Trude Lappegård, Sebastian Klüsener and Daniele Vignoli

WP-2014-001: Fertility of Turkish migrants in Germany: duration of stay matters

Katharina Wolf

WP-2013-018: Easier said than done: childbearing intentions and their realization in a short term perspective

Anne-Kristin Kuhnt and Heike Trappe

WP-2013-017: Blurred memory, deliberate misreporting, or “true tales”? How different survey methods affect respondents’ reports of partnership status at first birth

Michaela R. Kreyenfeld and Sonja Bastin

WP-2013-016: Does waiting pay off? The effect of partnership duration prior to household formation on union stability

Christine Schnor

WP-2013-015: Disease load at conception predicts survival in later epidemics in a historical French-Canadian cohort, suggesting functional epigenetic imprinting

Kai P. Willführ and Mikko Myrskylä

WP-2013-014: Care for money? Mortality improvements, increasing intergenerational transfers, and time devoted to the elderly

Tobias C. Vogt and Fanny A. Kluge