Stockholm Research Reports in Demography

We congratulate Amber Beckley who is to be appointed new Stockholm University lecturer at the Department of Criminology.

Two new projects at SUDA, Department of Sociology, get funding from Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council.

60 per cent higher. This is how much higher the risk of dying from COVID-19 is for individuals aged 70 and older in Stockholm County who live in the same household as a person of working age compared with the elderly who live with other old individuals. Crowded living conditions are not a risk […]

We are very happy and proud to announce that the 2020 EAPS Award for Population Studies has been awarded to Elizabeth Thomson, and the EAPS 2020 Trailblazer award for demographic analysis has been awarded to Martin Kolk.

Two new projects at SUDA, Department of Sociology, get funding from Forte, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare.

Being a man, having a lower income, having a lower level of education, not being married, and being born abroad in low- or middle-income countries – these are factors that, independent of one another, are related to an elevated risk of dying from COVID-19 in Sweden. These are the findings of […]

His goal was to take the first chance to move abroad and then move further and further south through research jobs in different countries. And then finally retire in a warmer climate, such as Spain or Italy. But for Gunnar Andersson, Professor of Demography at Stockholm University, things turned […]

Even though a vast majority of the firstborn children in Iceland are born outside of marriage, most parents there tend to marry in the end. In a new PhD thesis in Sociological Demography, Ari Klængur Jónsson shows that in terms of fertility and family behavior in Iceland, things […]

On March 4, the Swedish Research Council held a conference in Stockholm to present the final evaluation of all their past Linnaeus Centers and the concept of supporting Swedish Centers of Excellence. 

Our alumna My Järnefelt studied our two-year Multidisciplinary Master’s Programme in Demography, and is now working as an analyst and forecaster at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. 

Our latest Stockholm Research Reports in Demography are listed here. When a working paper is published in an academic journal, we remove the working paper pdf and replace it with a link to the journal publication.

Our alumnus Sebastian Ruiz is heading to make a post doc at Shanghai University, after having finished his PhD in Spain.

The Stockholm University Demography Unit, SUDA, congratulates Li Ma who will be new collaborator in national Demography at the forecast institute of Statistics Sweden, SCB, from January 2020. 

Oskar Adenfelt studied our Multidisciplinary Master's Programme in Demography, and is now working as the acting program director of migration and integration at the green and liberal think tank FORES.

A newly published study shows that people who enter a same-sex marriage have higher suicide rates than people entering opposite-sex marriages. But the study also found that across the years since same-sex marriage was legalized, the suicide rate has been decreasing more rapidly among people in […]

Matilda Rehn is a spatial planner and a demographer working as a regional planner at Region Stockholm. Our Master's Programme in Demography gave her the base knowledge needed about various aspects of the demographic development both in Sweden, Europe and the rest of the world.

Ignacio Carrasco studied our two-year Multidisciplinary Master's Programme in Demography. He is now enrolled in a PhD programme at Pompeu Fabra University, after having worked at the UN-ECLAC in Chile for several years.

Fewer and fewer children are being born in Sweden, while the average age of first-time mothers is rising. The latest figures from Statistics Sweden show that fertility rates in Sweden have fallen every year since 2009, and that the average age at first birth is the highest over a very long time. […]

Taking parental leave as a father can lead to lower wages afterwards – if you already have a lower wage. But fathers who have higher wages may instead get a raise. This is one of the findings in a new PhD thesis in Sociological Demography from Stockholm University that has predicted effects […]

The autumn work season in Sweden has already got started and we have two new visiting researchers at the Stockholm University Demography Unit.