PopHel Newsletter

This newsletter shares our research activities at the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health (PopHel).
Summer 2024 - Winter 2025

A few highlights: In August, we were discussing current health inequalities research and planning future collaboration with the Center for Health Equity Studies (CHESS, Stockholm University) in the Swedish Archipelago. In November, we met our colleagues in Rostock at the Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health (MaxHel Center) annual meeting. Between June 2024 and February 2025, PopHel researchers have presented their research more than 15 different international or national meetings, started five new funded projects, published over 60 academic articles, hosted 10 visiting researchers, and welcomed five new researchers to Helsinki.

Apart from all the scientific activities, we planted tulip bulbs during our annual Harvest Festival and awarded Juha Luukkonen as the Gardener of the Year, completed multiple puzzles with 1,000 pieces or more, and sang plenty of karaoke.

To receive our newsletter, which we aim to send out twice a year, you can subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to mila.lyytinen@helsinki.fi. Subscribers of our mailing list will also receive information on upcoming public talks and open positions at PopHel. You can also follow our activities on Blue Sky @pophel.bsky.social or on LinkedIn.

 

PopHel Talks – new online seminar

On the 10th of February, we kicked off our new online seminar series PopHel Talks that is open to all. In these talks, researchers at PopHel, current visiting researchers, or guest speakers will give 30-minutes presentations (+15-minute discussion) on their current research. Please, feel free to share our invitation to PopHel talks with colleagues who may be interested.

The next presentation will be on the 24th of March 2025 at 14:00 Eastern European Time by Aapo Hiilamo (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and MaxHel Center) on Children’s out-of-home care in Finland, 1993–2020: lifetime risks, expectancies, exit routes, and number of placements for synthetic cohorts.

Up to date information on upcoming talks can be found on our website. Please register here for a Zoom link to the seminar. 

 

Open positions

We have opened two positions for postdoctoral researchers on social inequalities in health connected to Pekka Martikainen’s ERC Advanced Grant “Social inequalities in population health: integrating evidence from longitudinal, family-based and genetically informed data” and the  Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health (MaxHel). Deadline for applications is the 14th of March 2025. More details can be found here.

 

New projects, awards, graduations, nominations

Karri Silventoinen was awarded the James Shields Award for Lifetime Contributions to Twin Research at the Congress of the International Society of Twin Studies (ISTS) in September 2025.

In June 2024 Yhteiskunta-alan korkeakoulutetut awarded Hannu Lahtinen a prize for an outstanding article on welfare state or inequality themes. The acknowledged article was:  Lahtinen, H., Korhonen, K., Martikainen, P., & Morris, T. (2023). Polygenic Prediction of Education and Its Role in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Cohort Changes Among Finnish Men and Women Born in 1925–1989. Demography, 60(5), 1523-1547.  The prize release (in Finnish): https://yka.fi/ajankohtaista/olivia-maury-ja-hannu-lahtinen-palkittiin-tutkimusartikkeleistaan/

Elina Einiö’s 4-year project “Minority Stress and Gendered Lives of Same-Sex Couples and Their Children in Finland (MISTLIFE)” funded by the Research Council of Finland started in 2024. A project description can be found on our website. A description of the project can be found here

Niina Metsä-Simola’s 4-year project” Social Determinants of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Their Consequences Within Families" funded by the Research Council of Finland started in September 2024. A project description can be found on our website.

Moritz Oberndorfer’s 2-year project “The Lockdown Cohort-Effect: Does the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility lead to long-term consequences for health and public services provision?” funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme started in July 2024. A project description can be found on our website and on CORDIS-EU.

Pekka Martikainen is participating in the latest round of Profi-funding in two 6-year projects starting this year; SWAN 'Enhancing healthy years' and and fooDrug 'Ensuring access to healthier, more secure food and medications'. You can read more about this funding instrument and the projects in https://www.helsinki.fi/en/research/strategic-research/profile-building-areas

Hanna Remes and a PopHel team are participating in the Finnish Infrastructure for Register-Based Research (FIRE) project launched in January 2025 with funding from the Research Council of Finland. FIRE is a researcher-community-driven development project with partners at the University of Turku, Statistics Finland, Aalto University, Tampere University, the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Jyväskylä, and the VATT Institute for Economic Research. More information about this project can be found here.

Sini Laakso successfully completed her Master’s programme in Demography (thesisFamily background and drug-related mortality by age 38: a register-based study of Finnish birth cohorts 1982–2004) at the University of Helsinki in November 2024 and continues working at PopHel.

Olivia McEvoy has successfully defended her PhD (thesis: “Studies on the social and economic patterning of health behaviours”) at Trinity College Dublin in December 2024.

Margherita Moretti joined the Early Career Review Board of the journal Social Science Research.

 

Newcomers

Alvaro Obeso: Alvaro Obeso started as a Project Planner at PopHel in December 2024. He is also a doctoral or PhD student in the University of the Basque country, where he is in the last year of his PhD in Forensic Analysis entitled: "Microevolutive Genetic processes in Roma population based in the Basque Country: A Short Tandem Repeat marker based study." Before that he has been working 3 and a half years as a Laboratory Biologist in a private hospital in Spain. His research interests include twin studies, population health and obesity. At PopHel, he is currently studying body mass index changes and fluctuations and how these are related with different typology of diseases (cardiovascular, metabolic, endocrine...) apart from the genetic and environmental influences of the relationships. He mainly uses twin databases. Contact: alvaro.obeso@helsinki.fi

 

Olivia McEvoy started as a postdoc at PopHel in September 2024. Prior to this she gained her PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, entitled “Studies on the social and economic patterning of health behaviours,” which included a research stay at Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London. Her research interests include social theory, social stratification, social inequalities in health and the biological, material, cultural, psycho-social, and contextual determinants of these inequalities and statistical methods. At PopHel, she is currently studying family and peer influence on health behaviours and the relationship between social composition of contexts, such as school and neighbourhood, and resulting health inequalities. Contact: Olivia.mcevoy@helsinki.fi Follow on bluesky: @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social

 

Eevi Haverinen joined PopHel as a doctoral researcher in September 2024, working on Niina Metsä-Simola's Research Council of Finland-funded project, Social Determinants of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and their Consequences within Families. She holds a master's degree in social science from the University of Helsinki, specializing in Social and Health Research and Management. With a clinical background in pediatric and adolescent mental healthcare, Eevi's research interests include social epidemiology, child and adolescent mental health, and the social determinants of health. At PopHel, she is currently studying the social determinants of neurodevelopmental disorders and their educational consequences in children and adolescents. Contact: eevi.haverinen@helsinki.fi

 

Eugenio Paglino started as a Postdoc at PopHel in September 2024. Previously, he was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his PhD in Demography and Sociology, with a dissertation titled “The Demography of Shocks: Migration and Mortality under the Influence of Environmental and Epidemiological Shocks”. His research interests include population health, mortality, migration, their links with climate change, and social and geographic inequalities in health and mortality. He is also interested in formal demography and statistical methods for modeling demographic processes. At PopHel, he is currently studying the health and mortality profile of internal and international migrants relative to the native-born population as well as the role of migration in shaping geographic inequalities in health and socioeconomic indicators. Contact: eugenio.paglino@helsinki.fi

 

Anna Leuwer started as a doctoral researcher at PopHel in October 2024. She completed her master’s degree at the university of cologne in social research, with a specialization in econometric and psychometric methods and their application in causal inference. In her master's thesis, she investigated trends in mental health through a birth cohort comparison among German young adults between 2002 and 2020.Her research interest lies in the field of population health, with a particular focus on social inequalities in younger age groups and their roots in intergenerational interdependencies, such as socio-economic family background and childhood circumstances. Other areas of interest include health-risk behaviors and mental health, as well as the study of long-term changes in health inequalities and their determinants. At PopHel, she will investigate social disparities in harm associated with substance abuse among Finnish adolescents, their variability across birth cohorts, and their consequences for health and social status at subsequent life-stages. Contact: anna.leuwer@helsinki.fi

 

Visiting Researchers at PopHel

  • Aapo Hiilamo (January – April) from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany
  • Elisa Cisotto (August) from Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Elena Fabrizi (November) from University of Teramo, Italy
  • Giovanni Trovato (Novembre) from University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  • Lei Yang (November) from Minzu University of China, China
  • Irma Elo (October) from University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Wanying Ling (September), University of Hong Kong
  • Carla Rowold (August) from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Germany
  • Jiani Yan (August and September), University of Oxford, UK
  • Heini Väisänen (August) Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris, France

 

Conferences, Workshops, and Meetings

  • European Population Conference (EPC) 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland, 12-15 June 2024 
    • Margherita Moretti “Evolution of Widowhood Expectancy in Finland and Its Inequalities” (oral presentation)
    • Lauren Bishop “Joint trajectories of parental and offspring psychiatric hospitalizations: A 30-year follow-up of Finnish birth cohorts 1980–1989” (oral presentation)
    • Liina Junna “Sibling Experiences During Childhood and Adolescence among the 1988 and 2000 Finnish Birth Cohorts” (poster)
    • Maria Ponkilainen “Premarital Cohabitation, Childbearing, and Divorce Risk in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples” (poster)
    • Joan Damiens “Residential mobility and suicide: Understanding the role of union transitions and life stages” (poster)
    • Luca Dei Bardi “14-year trend of care use before death in Finland” (oral presentation)
    • Eugenio Paglino “How Hot Is Too Hot and How Cold Is Too Cold? Estimating County-Level Relationships between Temperature and Mortality in California Counties” (oral presentation)
    • Kaarina Korhonen “Intermarriage and migrant health: Mortality among Finnish migrants in Sweden by spouse’s country of birth” (oral presentation)
    • Shubhankar Sharma “Disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and education in trends in the disability burden in the United States, 1996–2018” (poster presentation)
    • Hanna Remes “Living Alone in Mid-life – Socioeconomic Patterns and 
      Pathways into Living Alone in Finland, 1970–2018” (oral presentation)
  • Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference; Essex, United Kingdom, 24-26 September 2024 
    • Lauren Bishop “Accumulation of sibling complexity over 16 years and its impact on mental health and education” (oral presentation)
    • Lauren Bishop “Biological and household contributions to childhood adversity trajectories and their associations with psychiatric hospital treatment in early adulthood” (poster)
    • Olivia McEvoy “Can Social Exclusion explain Inequalities in Health Behaviours? Insights from a longitudinal study of Irish young people” (oral presentation)
  • Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Working Group Workshop, Bilbao, Spain, 25-27 September 2024 
    • Margherita Moretti “Three Decades of Widowhood Lifespan in Finland and Its Inequalities” (oral presentation)
  • European Public Health Conference (EPH) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 November 2024,
    • Niina Metsä-Simola “Guidelines to Practice in Hospitals at Home: Penicillin Infusion Pumps in Erysipelas Treatment” (poster)
  • FLUX Consortium’s 2nd period Kickoff Event, Mustio, Finland, 19-20 September 2024
    • Julia Hellstrand “Predicting ultimate childlessness for cohorts aged 35+ by level of education in the Nordic countries” (oral presentation)
  • BIOSFER Synergy Camp, Lillehammer, Norway, 3-6 March 2025
    • Julia Hellstrand “Economic uncertainty and men’s fertility: analysing the 2010s fertility decline in Finland by field of education and employment characteristics” (oral presentation)
  • GIF Conference 2025, Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity, Rostock, Germany, 19-21 March 2025
    • Julia Hellstrand “Predicting ultimate childlessness by education in the Nordic countries” (poster)
    • Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist "Mental Health and Childlessness: The Role of Partnerships" (Poster)
  • ESA conference, Portugal, Porto, 27-30 August 2024. 
    • Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist "Own depression, partner’s depression, and childlessness: A nationwide register-based study" (Oral presentation)
  • SWECOV - Swedish COVID-19 Research Workshop, Vår Gård Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, 22-23 August 2024
    • Moritz Oberndorfer “The COVID-19 pandemic changed the socioeconomic composition of parents: A register-based study of 76.5 million live births in 12 countries” (oral presentation)
  • Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health 2024, Glasgow, Scotland, 4-6 September 2024
    • Moritz Oberndorfer “Changes in parental socioeconomic composition of birth cohorts conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic: A register-based study of 76.5 million live births in 12 countries” (oral presentation)
  • Annual Conference of the Austrian Health Economics Association, Vienna, Austria, 6-7 March 2025
    • Moritz Oberndorfer was an invited speaker for the panel discussion “What can health economics contribute to society and what data access is needed?”
  • DEMOGRAPHY-programme’s policy symposium, Helsinki, Finland, 18 November 2024
    • Kaarina Korhonen “Millaista vanhusväestön hoiva on tulevaisuudessa?” [The future of elderly care] (oral presentation)
  • Zurich Population Research Conference 2025, Zurich, Switzerland, 20-21 January 2025
    • Shubhankar Sharma “Gender and educational trends in lifetime risk, age at onset, expectancy, and survival with cardiovascular disease in Finland, 1996-2020” (oral presentation)

 

PopHel research visits

  • Margherita Moretti visited the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain, from September to November 2024, to work with Tim Riffe
  • Joan Damiens visited the Vrije Universiteit van Brussels (VUB/BRISPO), Brussels, Belgium, in January 2024, to work with Sylvie Gadeyne and Joachim Gotink
  • Moritz Oberndorfer visited the Inequalities Team at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow in September 2024
  • Eugenio Paglino visited the Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris, France, from March to June 2024, to work with Giancarlo Camarda
  • Hanna Remes visited the Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris, France, in June 2024 to work with Heini Väisänen
  • Kaarina Korhonen visited the department of public health sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden, September to October 2024 to work with Olof Östergren and Agneta Cederström
  • Niina Metsä-Simola visited the Umeå University, Sweden, from in October 2024, to work with Anna Baranowska-Rataj and Björn Högberg
  • Niina Metsä-Simola visited the University College London (UCL), London, UK, in February 2025, to work with Alice Goisis

 

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Publications 01/06/2024- 28/02/2025

Aaltonen, M., Pitkänen, J., Tyni, S., & Martikainen, P. (2024). The changing socioeconomic composition of the Finnish prison population. Demographic Research, 51, 823‑854. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2024.51.27

Abrams, L., Brower, N., Myrskylä, M., & Mehta, N. (2024). Pervasive Stagnation : Flat and Rising Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Post-2010 Across US States and Counties. American Journal of Epidemiology, kwae414. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae414 

Abrams, L. R., Myrskylä, M., & Mehta, N. K. (2024). Reply to Timonin and Cooley : Varied effects of counterfactuals in 42 countries underscore value of within-country counterfactual. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(24), e2407918121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407918121

Afable, S. B. D., Vierboom, Y., Evans, M., Mikolai, J., Kulu, H., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Health decline and residential transitions among older adults in Europe. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2024-018.pdf

Arge, L. A., Lee, Y., Skåra, K. H., Myrskylä, M., Ramlau-Hansen, C. H., Håberg, S. E., & Magnus, M. C. (2024). Epigenetic aging and fecundability : The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. Human Reproduction, 39(12), 2806‑2815. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deae242 

Boydell, V., Wright, K. Q., Elnakib, S., & Galavotti, C. (2024). Toward person-centred measures of contraceptive demand : A systematic review of the relationship between intentions to use and actual use of contraception. Gates open research, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.15078.2

Campisi, N., Kulu, H., Mikolai, J., Klüsener, S., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Urban–Rural Disparities in the Transition to Parenthood During Times of Uncertainty : A Multilevel Perspective on Finland. European Journal of Population, 40(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-024-09725-3

D Lee, S., Barclay, K., Magnus, M. C., Ernst, A., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Multiple births mortality by maternal age at birth : A within-family analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data on 42 low-income countries. https://su.figshare.com/articles/preprint/Multiple_births_mortality_by_maternal_age_at_birth_A_within-family_analysis_of_Demographic_and_Health_Survey_data_on_42_low-income_countries/27889908?file=50717424

Damiens, J., Fadel, L., Marteau, B., Rees, A., Schnor, C., Cleemput, O. V., & Zilincikova, Z. (2023). Identifying partnership biographies from residential information in Belgian administrative data. Quetelet Journal, 11(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.14428/rqj2023.11.01.02

Dierker, P., Gueltzow, M., Lahtinen, H., Kühn, M., Martikainen, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Do genetics shape mental health trajectories around partnership transitions? Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2024-033.pdf

Dierker, P., Kühn, M., & Myrskylä, M. (2025). Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK. Acta Sociologica, 00016993241300435. https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241300435

Dierker, P., Metsä-Simola, N., Remes, H. M., Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S., Kühn, M., Martikainen, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Parental separation risk before and after the diagnosis of a child physical health condition. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/demwpaper/wp-2024-011.htm

Duerst, R., Hellstrand, J., Schöley, J., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Calibrated probabilistic forecasts of Finnish TFR 2024–2070. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/demwpaper/wp-2024-016.htm

Grindstad, T., Håberg, S. E., Basso, O., Hanevik, H. I., Caspersen, I. H., Arge, L. A., Ramlau-Hansen, C. H., Myrskyla, M., & Magnus, M. C. (2025). Environmental exposures and fecundability : The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort study. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 263, 114492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114492 

Gueltzow, M., Lahtinen, H., Bijlsma, M. J., Myrskylä, M., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Genetic propensity to depression and the role of partnership status. Social Science & Medicine, 351, 116992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116992 

Heiskanen, L., Aaltonen, M., Pitkänen, J., Suonpää, K., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Vakavaa väkivaltaa tekevät nuoret : - Perhetausta, oheisrikollisuus ja rikosurat suomalaisessa rekisteriaineistossa. Kriminologia, 4(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.54332/krim.136579

Heiskala, L., Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S., Karonen, E., & Erola, J. (2024) Change in human capital of the immediate family. . Mapineq deliverables. Turku: INVEST Research Flagship Centre / University of Turku. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14355337 https://mapineq.eu/change-in-human-capital-of-the-immediate-family/ 

Hellstrand, J., Nisén, J., & Myrskylä, M. (2025). Economic uncertainty and men’s fertility : Analysing the 2010s fertility decline in Finland by field of education and employment characteristics (No. WP-2025-001; 0 éd., p. WP-2025-001). Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2025-001

Hemelrijck, W. M. J. V., Kunst, A. E., Sizer, A., Martikainen, P., Zengarini, N., Costa, G., & Janssen, F. (2024). Trends in educational inequalities in smoking-attributable mortality and their impact on changes in general mortality inequalities : Evidence from England and Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin). J Epidemiol Community Health, 78(9), 561‑569. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2023-221702

Jang, S. Y., Oksuzyan, A., van Lenthe, F. J., Myrskylä, M., Loi, S., & Jang, S. Y. (2024). Living arrangements and chronic disease accumulation among native-born and immigrant older adults in Europe. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2024-032.pdf

Junna, L., Tarkiainen, L., Leinonen, T., Korhonen, K., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Trends in working life expectancy by education and occupational social class in Finland, 1991–2020. Finnish Centre for Pensions, Analyses, 4https://www.julkari.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/149888/2024-04-analyses.pdf?sequence=1

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S., Jalovaara, M., & Myrskylä, M. (2025). Parental Separation and Children’s Education—Changes Over Time? European Journal of Population, 41(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-024-09721-7

Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, S., Moustgaard, H., Martikainen, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Own depression, partner’s depression, and childlessness : A nationwide register-based study. Social Science & Medicine, 361, 117356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117356 

Korhonen, K., Cederström, A., Martikainen, P., & Östergren, O. (2024). Intermarriage and mortality among Finnish migrants in Sweden : A prospective register study using binational data. European Journal of Public Health, ckae179. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae179 

Korhonen, K., Moustgaard, H., Murphy, M., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Trends in Life Expectancy in Residential Long-Term Care by Sociodemographic Position in 1999–2018 : A Multistate Life Table Study of Finnish Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79(7), gbae067. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae067

Laine, R., Aaltonen, M., Martikainen, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2025). Industry-specific Labour Demand, Post-prison Employment and Recidivism – Evidence from Finland. Journal of Quantitative Criminologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-024-09599-y

Lam, A. A., Keenan, K., Kulu, H., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Working longer despite poorer health? Inequalities in working and health expectancies at older ages in South Korea (No. WP-2024-022; 0 éd., p. WP-2024-022). Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2024-022

Lam, A. A., Keenan, K., Myrskylä, M., & Kulu, H. (2024). Disease accumulation across birth cohorts in South Korea. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2024-019.pdf

Loi, S., Li, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). At the Intersection of Adverse Life Course Pathways : The Effects on Health by Migration Status. Demography, 61(3), 665‑686. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11314758 

Lorenti, A., Nisén, J., Mencarini, L., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Gendered Parenthood-Employment Gaps from Midlife : A Demographic Perspective Across Three Different Welfare Systems. European Journal of Population, 40(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-024-09699-2

Malmberg, S., Tarkiainen, L., Junna, L., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Stagnation in old age mortality among Finnish women : Cause-of-death decomposition of life expectancy trends by income. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 14034948241266438. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948241266438

McEvoy, O., & Layte, R. (2024). Bringing the group back in : Social class and resistance in adolescent smoking. Sociology of Health & Illness, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13858

Metsä-Simola, N. S., Einiö, E. K., & Martikainen, P. T. (2024). Changes in Chlamydia trachomatis risk before and after union formation and separation among women of reproductive age. European Journal of Public Health, 34(5), 890‑894. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae074

Metsä-Simola, N., Saarenketo, J., Lehtonen, H., Broman, N., Häggblom, T., Björklöf, P., Sariola, S., & Valta, M. P. (2024). Guidelines to practice in hospitals at home : Safe and effective continuous infusion pumps substantially increased penicillin use in erysipelas treatment. European Journal of Public Health, 34(5), 860‑865. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae112

Moretti, M., Cisotto, E., & De Rose, A. (2024). Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decompositionhttps://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2024.50.42

Moustgaard, H., Hiltunen, E., Malmberg, S., Tarkiainen, L., & Martikainen, P. (2025). Childhood family income and medication use in youth. J Epidemiol Community Healthhttps://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-222129

Myrskylä, M., Hale, J. M., Schneider, D. C., & Mehta, N. K. (2024). Trends in Memory Function and Memory Impairment Among Older Adults in the United States and Europe, 1996–2018. The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 79(Supplement_1), S11‑S21. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae154

Näsi, M., Aaltonen, M., Kaakinen, M., Suonpää, K., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Explaining Long-Term Trajectories in Youth Delinquency : Evidence From Survey and Register Data. Crime & Delinquency, 00111287241295982. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287241295982

Nissinen, I., Latvala, A., Suonpää, K., Aaltonen, M., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Parental incarceration and offspring criminality : A Finnish total population study with sibling comparison. Journal of Criminal Justice, 95, 102275.

Oberndorfer M, Luukkonen J, Remes HM, Waldhör T, Burgos Ochoa L, Rado M, Been JV, Paixao ES, Falcão IR, Martikainen PT. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the socioeconomic composition of parents: a register-based study of 76.5 million live births in 12 countries. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. https://dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2024-039

Obeso, A., Drouard, G., Jelenkovic, A., Aaltonen, S., Palviainen, T., Salvatore, J. E., Dick, D. M., Kaprio, J., & Silventoinen, K. (2024). Genetic contributions to body mass index over adolescence and its associations with adult weight gain : A 25-year follow-up study of Finnish twins. International Journal of Obesity, 1‑7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102275 

Ollonqvist, J., Kotakorpi, K., Laaksonen, M., Martikainen, P., Pirttilä, J., & Tarkiainen, L. (2025). Incentives, Health, and Retirement : Evidence From a Finnish Pension Reform. Health Economics, 34(3), 537‑572. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4917

Pelikh, A., Remes, H., Metsä‐Simola, N., & Goisis, A. (2024). Medically Assisted Reproduction and Partnership Stability. Population and Development Review, 50(4), 1289‑1317. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12660

Pelikh, A., Smith, K. R., Myrskylä, M., Debbink, M. P., & Goisis, A. (2022). Maternal Morbidity and Medically Assisted Reproduction Treatment Types. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 10‑1097. https://doi.org/10.1097/aog.0000000000005808 

Pitkänen, J., Junna, L., & Martikainen, P. (2024). Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Episodes and Subsequent Labor Market Trajectories. Journal of Adolescent Health, 74(6), 1175‑1183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.02.001

Ponkilainen, M., Einiö, E., Pietiläinen, M., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Educational Differences in Fertility Among Female Same-Sex Couples in Finland. Demography, 61(6), 2053‑2079. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11687583 

Rao, Z., & Zhang, Y. (2024). Rely on children or work longer? The impact of fertility and child gender on old-age labor supply. World Development, 181, 106661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106661 

Sariaslan, A., Pitkänen, J., Forsman, J., Kuja-Halkola, R., Brikell, I., D’Onofrio, B. M., Aaltonen, M., Larsson, H., Martikainen, P., Lichtenstein, P., & Fazel, S. (2024). Risk of common psychiatric disorders, suicidal behaviours, and premature mortality following violent victimisation : A matched cohort and sibling-comparison study of 127,628 people who experienced violence in Finland and Sweden. PLOS Medicine, 21(10), e1004410. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004410

Schubert, H.-A., Dudel, C., Kolobova, M., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Revisiting the J-shape : Human development and fertility in the United States. Demography, 61(6), 1949‑1973. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680156 

Sharma, S., Martikainen, P., Myrskyla, M., Tarkiainen, L., & Suulamo, U. (2025). Gender and educational trends in lifetime risk, age at onset, expectancy, and survival with cardiovascular disease in Finland, 1996-2020. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbaf007. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf007 

Sharma, S., Hale, J. M., & Feraldi, A. (2025). Gender, racial/ethnic, and educational disparities in the trends in disability burden in the United States, 1996-2018. Population Studies (forthcoming) https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2462283 

Silventoinen, K., Lahtinen, H., Korhonen, K., Morris, T. T., & Martikainen, P. (2025). Genetic contributions to the educational inequalities in coronary heart disease incidence: a population-based study of 32 000 middle-aged men and women. J Epidemiol Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-222618

Silventoinen, K., Honda, C., Tomizawa, R., Sakai, N., Ikehara, S., Miyazaki, J., Tanigawa, K., Kimura, T., Kawasaki, R., & Iso, H. (2024). Chorionicity and Psychomotor Development From Infancy to Childhood : The Japan Environment and Children’s Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 1‑7. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2024.39 

Silventoinen, K., Maia, J., Sillanpaa, E., Sund, R., Gouveia, E. R., Antunes, A., Marques, G., Thomis, M., Kaprio, J., & Freitas, D. (2024). Genetic Regulation of Physical Fitness in Children : A Twin Study of 15 Tests from Eurofit and Fitnessgram Test Batteries. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 56https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/99092

Silventoinen, K., Maia, J., Sund, R., Gouveia, É. R., Antunes, A., Marques, G., Thomis, M., Jelenkovic, A., Kaprio, J., & Freitas, D. (2025). Associations of body size and morphology with cardiometabolic health in children : The contribution of genetic factors. Obesity, 33(1), 125‑133. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.24196

Stolz, E., Oberndorfer, M., & Freidl, W. (2025). Education-related inequalities in disability during the last years of life : A full population register-based study. J Epidemiol Community Health, 79(2), 82‑86. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-222669

van Raalte, A. A., Basellini, U., Camarda, C. G., Nepomuceno, M., & Myrskylä, M. (2024). Response to Carl Schmertmann Commentary—Drawing Cohort Profiles From Period Data : Improvements and Risks. Demography, 61(4), 973‑977. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11484973 

Woldemariam, S., Oberndorfer, M., Stein, V. K., Haider, S., & Dorner, T. E. (2024). Association between frailty and subsequent disability trajectories among older adults : A growth curve longitudinal analysis from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2004–19). European Journal of Public Health, 34(6), 1184‑1191. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckae146 

Yokoyama, Y., Ogata, Y., Suzuki, K., Kanaoka, S., Furushou, K., Masuda, R., Horiuchi, S., Yamagata, Z., Kondo, N., & Silventoinen, K. (2024). Continuous Support from the Same Public Health Nurse and Parental Perception and Use of Health Care Services : A Retrospective Observational Study. Maternal and Child Health Journalhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-024-03971-x

Zazueta-Borboa, J.-D., Van Hemelrijck, W. M., Zengarini, N., Sizer, A., Kunst, A. E., Martikainen, P., & Janssen, F. (2024). Long-term trends in educational inequalities in alcohol-attributable mortality, and their impact on trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy. Frontiers in public health, 12, 1355840. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1355840 

Zong, X., & Wang, H. (2024). Do early-life circumstances predict late-life suicidal ideation? Evidence from SHARE data using machine learning. Frontiers in psychiatry, 15, 1426876. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1426876