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Curriculum Vitae Martin Kolk

Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology

Stockholm University

S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

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www.su.se/profiles/mkolk

Date of birth: January 21st, 1986

Citizenship: Swedish

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DEGREES

Oct 2016 Docent (title of Associate Professor) in Demography, Stockholm University, Sweden

Feb 2010 –

Oct 2014

PhD in Demography, Stockholm University, Sweden www.suda.su.se

Thesis title: Multigenerational processes in demography. Advisors: Gunnar Andersson and Juho

Härkönen. Opponent: Michael Murphy (LSE)

Aug 2009 –

Feb 2010

Chinese language program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)

www.ntu.edu.tw

Aug 2007 –

Jun 2009

Master in Demography, Stockholm University, Sweden, www.suda.su.se

Including an exchange at University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Aug 2008-Dec 2008.

Aug 2005-

Jun 2007

B.Soc.Sci in Economic History, Stockholm University, Sweden, www.su.se

Including 1½ years of studies in Engineering Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),

Stockholm

CURRENT POSITIONS

Oct 2014 – Researcher, Demography Unit at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden,

www.suda.su.se

Jan 2016 – Researcher, Center for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Sweden,

www.intercult.su.se

Aug 2016 – Researcher, Institute for future studies, Stockholm, Sweden, www.iffs.se

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oct 2019–

Dec 2019 &

Oct 2016–

Apr 2017

Visiting researcher, Program for Historical Demography, Academica Sinica (中央研究院),

Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), www.demography.sinica.edu.tw

Oct 2013 –

Dec 2013

Internship at United Nations Headquarter, Population Division, Fertility and Family Planning

Section, New York, NY, USA, www.un.org/esa/population/

Aug 2011 –

May 2012

Visiting scholar at Department of Demography, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA,

http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed journal articles

1. Kolk, Martin and Kieron Barclay (2020) “Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and

fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967” Intelligence conditionally

accepted for publication

2. Barclay, Kieron and Martin Kolk (2020) “The Influence of Health in Early Adulthood on Male Fertility” Population and

Development review, available online

3. Saarela, Jan and Martin Kolk (2020) “Alcohol-related mortality by ethnic origin of natives: A prospective cohort study

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based on multigenerational population register data from Finland and Sweden”, BMJ Open, 10:e042234

4. Chiara, Ludovica Comolli, Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson, Lars Dommermuth, Peter Fallesen, Marika Jalovaara, Ari

Jónsson, Martin Kolk and Trude Lappegård. ”Beyond the Economic Gaze: Childbearing during and after recessions in

the Nordic countries” European Journal of Population. available online

5. Brandén, Maria, Siddartha Aradhya, Martin Kolk, Juho Härkönen, Sven Drefahl, Bo Malmberg, Mikael Rostila, Agneta

Cederström, Gunnar Andersson, Eleonora Mussino (2020): Residential Context and COVID-19 Mortality among Older

Adults in Stockholm: A population-based, observational study. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. Lancet

Longevity. 1(2): e53-e54

6. Drefahl, Sven, Matthew Wallace, Eleonora Mussino, Siddartha Aradhya, Martin Kolk, Maria Brandén, Bo Malmberg,and

Gunnar Andersson (2020) “Socio-demographic risk factors of COVID-19 deaths in Sweden: A nationwide register

study” Nature Communications, 11 (5097)

7. Barclay, Kieron, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Martin Kolk, and Anneli Ivarsson (2020) “Interpregnancy Intervals and

Perinatal and Child Health in Sweden: A Comparison Within Families and Across Social Groups” Population Studies,

74(3): 363-378

8. Kolk, Martin and Gunnar Andersson (2020) “Two Decades of Same-sex Marriage in Sweden. A Demographic Account of

Developments in Marriage, Childbearing and Divorce” Demography, 57(1): 147-169

9. Bernard, Aude and Martin Kolk (2020) “Why are young Swedes moving more? A cohort analysis of internal migration by

move order” European Journal of Population, 36(3): 601-615

10. Morosow, Kathrin and Martin Kolk (2020) “How does Birth Order and Number of Siblings Effect Fertility? A Within-

Family Comparison using Swedish Register Data” European Journal of Population, 36: 197-233

11. Li, Chun-Hao, Martin Kolk, Wen-Shan Yang, and Ying-Chang Chuang (2020) “Uxorilocal Marriage as a Strategy for

Heirship in a Patrilineal Society: Evidence from Household Registers in Early 20th-Century Taiwan”, History of the

Family, 25(1): 22-45

12. Kolk, Martin (2019) “Period and Cohort Measures of Internal Migration” Population, 74(3): 333-348

13. Molitoris, Joseph, Kieron Barclay, and Martin Kolk (2019) “When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child

Survival: An International Comparison using the DHS” Demography, 56(4): 1349-1370

14. Kolk, Martin and Kieron Barclay (2019) “Cognitive ability and fertility amongst Swedish men born 1951-1967.

Evidence from military conscription registers” Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286 (1902): 20190359

15. Barclay, Kieron and Martin Kolk (2019) “Parity and Mortality: An Examination of Different Explanatory Mechanisms

Using Data on Biological and Adoptive Parents” European Journal of Population, 35(1): 63-85

16. Kolk, Martin (2019) “Weak support for a U-shaped pattern between societal gender equality and fertility when

comparing societies across time” Demographic Research, 40: 27-48

17. Kridahl, Linda and Martin Kolk (2018) “Retirement coordination in opposite-sex and same-sex married couples:

Evidence from Swedish registers” Advances in Life Course Research, 38: 22-36

18. Dahlberg, Johan and Martin Kolk (2018) “Explaining Swedish Sibling Similarity in Fertility – Parental Fertility

Behavior vs. Social Background” Demographic Research, 39: 884-893

19. Barclay, Kieron and Martin Kolk (2018) “Birth Intervals and Health in Adulthood: A Comparison of Siblings using



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Swedish Register Data” Demography, 55(3): 929–955

20. Kolk, Martin and Martin Hällsten (2017) “Demographic and educational success of lineages in northern Sweden”

Population and Development Review, 43(3): 491–51

21. Barclay, Kieron and Martin Kolk (2017) “The long-term cognitive and socioeconomic consequences of birth intervals: a

within-family sibling comparison using Swedish register data” Demography, 54(2): 459-484

22. Kolk, Martin (2017) “A life course analysis of geographical distance to siblings, parents and grandparents in Sweden”

Population, Space and Place, 23(3): e2020

23. Baranowska-Rataj, Anna, Kieron Barclay and Martin Kolk (2017) ”The effect of the number of siblings on adult

mortality: Evidence from Swedish registers” Population Studies, 68(1): 111-129

24. Chudnovskaya, Margarita, & Martin Kolk (2017) “Educational expansion and intergenerational proximity in Sweden”

Population, Space and Place, 23(1): e1973

25. Barclay, Kieron, Katherine Keenan, Emily Grundy, Martin Kolk and Mikko Myrskylä (2016). “Reproductive history

and post-reproductive mortality: A sibling comparison analysis using Swedish register data” Social Science & Medicine,

155: 82-92

26. Kolk, Martin and Sebastian Schnettler (2016) “Socioeconomic status and sex ratios at birth in Sweden. No evidence for

a Trivers-Willard effect for a wide range of status indicators” American Journal of Human Biology, 28(1): 67-73

27. Andersson, Gunnar and Martin Kolk (2015) ”Trends in childbearing, marriage and divorce in Sweden: An update with

data up to 2012” Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 50: 21-30

28. Kolk, Martin (2015) “Age differences in unions: Continuity and divergence in Sweden between 1932 and 2007”

European Journal of Population, 31(4): 365-382

29. Kolk, Martin (2015) “The causal effect of an additional sibling on completed fertility – An estimation of

intergenerational fertility correlations by looking at siblings of twins” Demographic Research, 32: 1409-1420

30. Barclay, Kieron and Martin Kolk (2015) “Birth order and mortality: A population based cohort study” Demography,

52(2): 613-639

31. Kolk, Martin, Daniel Cownden and Magnus Enquist (2014) “Correlations in fertility across generations – can low

fertility persist” Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281(1779): 20132561

32. Kolk, Martin (2014) “Understanding transmission of fertility across multiple generations – Socialization or

socioeconomics?” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 35: 89-103

33. Kolk, Martin (2014) “Multigenerational transmission of family size in contemporary Sweden” Population Studies,

68(1): 111-129

34. Kolk, Martin and Sebastian Schnettler (2013) “Parental status and gender preferences for children: Is differential

fertility stopping consistent with the Trivers-Willard hypothesis?” Journal of Biosocial Science, 45(5): 683-704

35. Andersson, Gunnar and Martin Kolk (2011) ”Trends in childbearing and nuptiality in Sweden: An update with data up

to 2007” Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 46: 21-27

36. Kolk, Martin (2011) “Deliberate birth spacing in 19th century Northern Sweden” European Journal of Population,

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Book chapters

37. Kolk, Martin (forthcoming) “Demographic theory and population ethics” in Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Byqvist, Tim

Campbell, & Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, Oxford University Press, Oxford

38. Barclay, Kieron and Martin Kolk (2020) “Birth spacing and health outcomes: differences across the life course and

developmental contexts” in Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou and Dr Athina Vlachantoni (eds.) Handbook on

Demographic Change and the Lifecourse, pages 170-181, Edvard Elgars, Cheltenham

39. Drefahl, Sven, Martin Kolk, and Jani Turunen (2017) ”Dödlighet [Mortality]” in Duvander, Ann-Zofie & Jani Turunen

(eds.) Demografi: Befolkningsperspektiv på samhället, pages 67-91, Studentlitteratur, Stockholm

40. Brandén, Maria and Martin Kolk (2017) ”Inrikesflyttningar [Internal migration]” in Duvander, Ann-Zofie & Jani

Turunen (eds.) Demografi: Befolkningsperspektiv på samhället, pages 115-132, Studentlitteratur, Stockholm

Doctoral thesis

41. Kolk, Martin (2014) Multigenerational processes in demography. Stockholm University: Stockholm.

Working papers

42. Saarela, Jan and Martin Kolk, Birth order and alcohol-related mortality by ethnic origin and national context: Within-

family comparisons for Finland and Sweden Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. 2020:XX

43. Cheng, Yen-hsin Alice and Martin Kolk (2020) “An East–West dichotomy? Shifting marriage age patterns in Taiwan

and Sweden over two centuries” Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. 2020:41

44. Gardner, Eugene J., Matthew D. C. Neville, Kaitlin E. Samocha, Kieron Barclay, Martin Kolk, Mari E. K. Niemi,

George Kirov, Hilary C. Martin, and Matthew E. Hurles (2020) “Sex-biased reduction in reproductive success drives

selective constraint on human genes” bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2020.05.26.116111

45. Saarela, Jan, Martin Kolk, and Ognjen Obućina. (2020) “Kinship, Heritage and Ethnic Choice: Ethnolinguistic

Registration across Four Generations in Contemporary Finland” Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. 2020:16

46. Kolk, Martin and Kieron Barclay (2020) “Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability

and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967” Stockholm Research

Reports in Demography. 2020:11

47. Hällsten, Martin, and Martin Kolk (2020) “The shadow of peasant past: Seven generations of inequality persistence in

Northern Sweden” SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yjksz

48. Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego, Martin Kolk, and Emilio Zagheni (2019) “Women's Experience of Child Death over the Life

Course: A Global Demographic Perspective” SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/s69fz.

49. Kolk, Martin and Vegard Skirbekk (2019) “Fading Family Lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and

great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century Northern Sweden” Stockholm Research Reports in Demography.

2019:24

50. Kolk, Martin (2019) “The relationship between lifecourse accumulated income and childbearing of Swedish men and

women” Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. 2019:19

51. Kolk, Martin (2019) “Demographic theory and population ethics - relationships between population size and population



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growth” Studies on climate ethics and future generations - working paper series. 2019:11

52. Grätz, Michael and Martin Kolk (2019) “Sibling Similarity in Income: A Life Course Perspective” Stockholm Research

Reports in Demography. 2019:14

Other publications

53. Kolk, Martin and Gunnar Andersson (2020) ” Same-sex marriages in Sweden: 20 years of change?” N-IUSSP online

news magazine, March 16 - 2020

54. Kolk, Martin (2019) Review of the book ”Mer familj, mer omsorg [More family, more care]”, by Gerdt Sundström” in

Äldre i Centrum 2019(1): 81-82

55. Kolk, Martin (2019) ”Gender equality and fertility: is there a connection?” N-IUSSP online news magazine, April 1 -

2019

56. Barclay, Kieron, and Martin Kolk (2018) ” Birth spacing and long-term health and mortality?” N-IUSSP online news

magazine, July 9 - 2018

57. Barclay, Kieron, and Martin Kolk (2017) ” Does birth spacing matter for long-term outcomes?” N-IUSSP online news

magazine, March 17 - 2017

58. Kolk, Martin (2013) ”Ålderskillnader mellan föräldrar i Sverige [Age differences between parents in Sweden]” Välfärd,

2013:3

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Kinship and intergenerational demography, economic demography, historical demography, family composition effects on

demographic outcomes, social stratification, and cultural evolutionary demography (www.intercult.su.se)

AWARDS

the European Assocation for Population Studies 2020 Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis for outstanding

achievements by an individual scholar in the development and application of the methods of demographic analysis, including

mathematical and bio-demography

CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“The shadow of peasant past: Higher order cousin correlations in educational attainment in Sweden” together with Martin

Hällsten

CEDAR seminar, Umeå University, Sweden, February 2020; SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University,

Sweden, January 2020; Nordic Demographic Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2019

“Shifting Spousal Age Patterns in Taiwan and Sweden from the 19th to 21st centuries” together with Yen-Hsin Alice Cheng

Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography, Pecs, Hungary, June 2019

“Parity Progression as Expressions of preferences for Children - a Global Comparative Analysis Using Micro-Level Data from

97 Countries” together with Joseph Molitoris and Kieron Barclay

Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Austin, USA, April 2019

“Interpregnancy Intervals and Perinatal and Child Health in Sweden: A Comparison Within Families and Across Social Groups”

together with Kieron Barclay, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, and Anneli Ivarsson

Nordic Demographic Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2019; Annual Conference for the Population



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http://www.niussp.org/article/birth-spacing-long-term-health-mortalityintervalles-intergenesiques-quelles-consequences-sur-la-sante-aux-ages-adultes/

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Association of America, Austin, USA, April 2019

“Sibling Similarity in Income: A Life Course Perspective” together with Michael Grätz

Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden, March 2019

“Government transfers from nonparents to parents and population policy in a global perspective – An economic demographic

approach”

2nd Conference on Climate Ethics and Future Generations, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2019; Cultural

Evolution Seminar Series, Stockholm, Sweden, December 2018

“Birth spacing and health outcomes: differences over the life course and developmental context”

Workshop on Family and Fertility over the Life Course in Europe, St Andrews, UK, November 2018

“Accumulated life course income and union formation trajectories”

European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 2018

“Pronatalist Policies and Future Generations” together with Julia Mosquera and Tim Campbell

Kick Off Conference:Climate Ethics and Future Generations Project, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2018

“Weak support for a U-shaped pattern between societal gender equality and fertility when comparing societies across time”

Nordic Demographic Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2019; Annual Conference for the Population

Association of America, Austin, USA, April 2019; Beijing 2018 Sino-Nordic Workshop, Beijing, PRC, August 2018

“Interdependencies between population growth, emissions, economic growth, and technological growth in future populations“

The size of future and current generations and climate change – perspectives from demography, population ethics,

and environmental studies, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2018

“Cognitive ability and fertility amongst Swedish men. Evidence from 18 cohorts of military conscription” together with Kieron

Barclay

European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, Toulouse, France, April 2019; ECSR, Paris, France,

October 2018; CostPost final conference, Como, Italy, September 2018; Annual Conference for the Population

Association of America, Denver, USA, April 2018

“Sex Composition and Parity Progression in Sweden and Taiwan: Evidence of Changing Gender Preferences from 200 Years of

Micro Level Fertility Histories” together with Yen-Hsin Alice Cheng

Social Sciene and History Conference, Leiden, Netherlands, March 2021; Life at the Extremes 2.0: A new research

agenda for studying historical life courses in the Netherlands and Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2019; Conference

of the European Society of Historical Demography, Pecs, Hungary, June 2019; European Population Conference,

Brussels, Belgium, June 2018; Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Denver, USA, April

2018

“When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child Survival: An International Comparison Using the DHS” together

with Joseph Molitoris and Kieron Barclay

European Population Conference, Brussels, Belgium, June 2018; Annual Conference for the Population Association

of America, Denver, USA, April 2018

“Birth Intervals and Health in Adulthood: A Within-family Sibling Comparison using Swedish Register Data” together with

Kieron Barclay

European Population Conference, Brussels, Belgium, June 2018; Annual Conference for the Population Association

of America, Denver, USA, April 2018; XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Cape Town, South Africa,

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“Accumulated Income and fertility”

Center for Social Research, Peking University, Beijing, China, December, 2019; Max Planck Institute for

Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, October, 2019; ECSR, Paris, France, October 2018; European Population

Conference, Brussels, Belgium, June 2018; Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Denver,

USA, April 2018; Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute for Public Health, March 2018; Demographic

Database seminar series, Umeå University, Sweden, January 2018; Alp-Pop Conference, La Thuille, Italy, January

2018; SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, January 2018; RC28, New York, US, August 2017

“Fading Family Lines - Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21st century

Northern Sweden” together with Vegard Skirbekk

XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2017; Nordic

Demographic association, Turku, Finland, June 2017 ; Department of Sociology, Madison, US, May 2017; Annual

Conference for the Population Association of America, Chicago, USA, April 2017

“Joint retirement among opposite-sex and same-sex couples: An analysis using Swedish administrative registers from 1995 to

2012 “ together with Linda Kridahl

Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Chicago, USA, April 2017

“Elementary relationships in economic demography”

Cumberland lodge conference on “Population Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Birth and Death”, Windsor,

UK, September 2016

“Two Decades of Same-Sex Marriage in Sweden: A Demographic Account” together with Gunnar Andersson

Center for Social Research, Peking University, Beijing, China, August 2018; XXVII IUSSP International Population

Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2017; Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden November

2017; Stockholm Pride Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017; Nordic Demographic association, Turku, Finland,

June 2017 ; Annual Conference for the Taiwanese Population Association, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), April

2017; Social Science division, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, March 2017; 14th

Meeting of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce, Stockholm, Sweden

October 2016European Population Conference, Mainz, Germany, September 2016; Annual Conference for the

Population Association of America, Washington, DC, USA, April 2016

“The long-term cognitive and socioeconomic consequences of birth intervals: a within-family sibling comparison using Swedish

register data” together with Kieron Barclay

RC28, Singapore, May 2016; Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Washington, DC,

USA, April 2016; SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, September 2015

“Number of descendants and their socioeconomic outcomes. A prospective analysis of multigenerational stratification in

Northern Sweden in the 19th and 20th centuries.” together with Martin Hällsten

International Seminar on Linking Past to Present Long-term perspectives on micro-level demographic processes,

Tokyo, Japan, December 2016 ; Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography, Leuven, Belgium,

September 2016; European Population Conference, Mainz, Germany, September 2016; RC28, Singapore, May 2016;

The European Human Behavior and Evolution Association Meeting, London, UK, April 2016; Alp-Pop Conference,

Villars, Switzerland, January 2016; Conference on education and reproduction in low-fertility settings, Vienna,

Austria, December 2015; Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm October 2015; World Economic

History Congress, Kyoto, Japan, August 2015

“Historical and contemporary kinship in Northern Sweden – linked micro data from 1730-2007”

Workshop on New Developments in Register-based Demographic Research, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2015

”The prevalence of half siblings over the demographic transition - Northern Sweden 1750-2007” together with Jani Turunen

XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2017; Demographic Database

seminar series, Umeå University, Sweden, May 2015; IUSSP seminar on Separation, Divorce, Repartnering and Remarriage



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around the World, Montreal, Canada, May 2015; Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, San Diego,

CA, USA, April 2015

“Period and Cohort Measures of Migration”

Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, San Diego, CA, USA, April 2015; Internal

Migration and Commuting in International Perspective Symposium, Wiesbaden, Germany, February 2015

“Intergenerational and intragenerational correlations in family size across time – Northern Sweden, 1750-2007” together with

Johan Dahlberg

Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, San Diego, CA, USA, April 2015; Centre for

Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden, March 2015; Conference of the European Society of Historical

Demography, Alghero, Italy, September 2014

“The Causal Effect of Another Sibling on Own Fertility – an Estimation of Intergenerational Fertility Correlations by Looking at

Siblings of Twins”

XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 2014; European Population Conference, Budapest,

Hungary, June 2014; Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Boston, MA, USA, April 2014

“The Effect of Number of Siblings on Mortality Risk: Evidence from Swedish Register Data” together with Anna Baranowska-

Rataj, and Kieron Barclay

Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, San Diego, CA, USA, April 2015; IUSSP seminar

Early-life Determinants of Late-life Employment, Ill Health and Early Death, Lund, Sweden, October 2014; European

Population Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2014

“Dizygotic Twinning and Fecundity – Is There an Association between a Family History of Twinning and Birth Intervals in

Contemporary Sweden?” together with Kieron Barclay,

Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Boston, MA, USA, April 2014

“Parity and Mortality amongst Biological and Adoptive Parents in Contemporary Sweden” together with Kieron Barclay,

Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Boston, MA, USA, April 2014

“Intergenerational Transmission of Age at First Birth in Age-Heterogeneous Couples” together with Sven Drefahl,

European Population Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2014; Annual Conference for the Population

Association of America, Boston, MA, USA, April 2014

“Global age-patterns in married and cohabiting unions”,

Population Division, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA, November 2013

“Analytical Sociology and Cultural Evolution”, together with Magnus Enquist,

6th International Network of Analytical Sociologists Conference, Sweden, May 2013

“Correlations in family size across generations – can low fertility persist” together with Daniel Cownden and Magnus Enquist

Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, May 2013

“A Life Course Perspective on Geographical Distance to Siblings, Parents and Grandparents in Sweden”

Population Dynamics and Public Policy workshop, Evian, France, May 2014; 18th Aage Sorensen Memorial

Conference, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, April 2014;Department of Sociology, Oslo University, Norway, March

2014; XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013; SUDA Colloquium

series, Stockholm University, Sweden, May 2013; Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, New

Orleans, LA, USA, April 2013; ISA Research Committee 06 Conference, ‘Demographic and Institutional Change in

Global Families’, Academica Sinica, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), March 2013

“Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Proximity in Sweden: Developments in Geographical Distance between Young



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Adults and Their Parents, 1980-2007”, together with Margarita Chudnovskaya,

XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013; ISA Research Committee 06

Conference, ‘Demographic and Institutional Change in Global Families’, Academica Sinica, Taipei, Republic of China

(Taiwan), March 2013

“Birth Order and Mortality: A Population Based Cohort Study”, together with Kieron Barclay

XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013; Annual Conference for the

Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, USA, April 2013; SUDA Colloquium series” Stockholm

University, Sweden, February 2013

“Understanding intergenerational transmission of fertility in a multigenerational context – Socialization of fertility preferences

or transmission of socioeconomic traits?

Inequality across Multiple Generations Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, September 2012;

Inequality and the Life Course, ECSR & EQUALSOC Summer School, University of Trento, Italy, September 2012;

European Population Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2012; Annual Conference for the Population Association

of America (Awarded “Best Poster”), San Francisco, CA, USA, May, 2012

“Socioeconomic status and sex ratios at birth in contemporary Sweden. No evidence for a Trivers Willard effect using

longitudinal register data across a wide range of status indicators.”

XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013; Consilience Conference, St

Louis, MO, USA, April 2012

“Age Differences between Couples in Sweden over Time: Continuity, Divergence, and Globalization”

26th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 2012, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 2012; Annual Conference

for the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2012; Department of Demography, UC

Berkeley, California, CA, USA, April 2012; 4th Next Generation Global Workshop, Seoul National University, Seoul,

South Korea, November 2011

“The Trivers-Willard effect of parental status on sex composition of children: What role for fertility stopping behavior?”

together with Sebastian Schnettler,

25th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 2011, Oslo, Norway, August 2011

”Intergenerational continuities in fertility - Multigenerational transmission of fertility in contemporary Sweden”

25th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 2011, Oslo, Norway, August 2011; Workshop on the

Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, June 2011; Mölle-PhD

Student Conference in Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden, May 2011; Inter-Ivy and Sorensen Memorial

Sociology Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 2011;Annual Conference for the Population

Association of America, Washington DC, USA, April 2011; Demographic Database seminar series, Umeå University,

Sweden, December 2010

“Birth control in Sweden before the Fertility Transition”

14th Annual Harvard-Oxford-Stockholm, Aage Sorensen Memorial Conference, Oxford (Nuffield College), UK,

April 2010

“Deliberate birth spacing before the fertility transition in France and Germany” together with Sara Moreels

36th Annual Conference of the Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, USA, November 2009

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

Interviews, coverage, and quotations by international media and newspapers such as the Economist, the New York Times, NBC

News, Reuters, the Huffington Post, El Pais, as well as Swedish media such as Dagens Nyheter, Morgonstudion (SVT),

Vetenskapsstudion (SVT), Nordegren & Epstein (P1), Aftonbladet, SvD, Vetenskapsradion (P1), Forskning och Framsteg.

Research presentation broadcased in Swedish national television (Kunskapskanalen). Coverage in Swedish, UK, US, German,



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French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Chinese media, and other countires.

Opinion pieces published on DN Debatt and SvD Debatt.

Outreach presentations at for example Kunskapskanalen/UR (2020), the Swedish Radio’s internal meeting of foreing

correspondents (2020), the Swedish Parliament (2019), Stockholm Pride festival (2017), the Future Strategy Group of the

Gyeonggi province (largest province in South Korea) (2018), and the Swedish association of municipal planners (2017).

58 peer-reviews verified in Publons (publons.com/author/654116), including reviews for: Demography, European Journal of

Population, Population Studies, Social Science and Medicine, Social Science Research, Journal of Family Issues, European

Societies, Journal of Marriage and Family, Acta Sociologica, Historical Method, Philosophical transactions of the Royal

Society B (Biological Section), Population Space & Place

Experience designing, organizing, updating planning, and applying for ethical approval for several national Swedish register

databases.

External evaluator for a position as Assistant professor in Historical Demography and Health at Umeå Univeristy, 2020

Grant reviwer for the Czech Science Foundation, 2020

Grant reviewer for the Swedish Research Council, 2019

Jury member for the annual thesis competition of the Swedish Demographic Association, 2019

Main organizer of the international workshop “The size of future and current generations and climate change – perspectives

from demography, population ethics, and environmental studies” at the Institute for Future Studies, May 2018

Member of the Swedish Research Council’s scientific advisory board on register-based research, 2018-

Participation as expert in the reference group for Statistics Sweden’s population forecast, 2018

Member of the appointing committee for (full) professors at the social science faculty, Stockholm University, 2013-2014

Main organizer of the Sociology Department’s, SOFI’s, SoRAD’s and ChESS’s ‘Working Paper Seminar Series for PhD

Students’, Stockholm University 2013-2014

Member of the sociology department PhD-student council, Stockholm University, 2013-2014

Member of the national organizing team for the European Population Conference in Stockholm June 2012

Research Assistant, Demography Unit, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, February 2009-August 2009

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

Course organizer and lecturer for the course Family Dynamics in a Changing Europe, masters-level course at Stockholm

University (24 lecture hours, course evaluation 5.3/6), 2020

Lecturer on “Intergenerational Relations” in Family Sociology, masters-level course at Stockholm University (18 lecture hours),

2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Lecturer and computer labs on “Migration” in Basic Demographic Methods, masters-level course at Stockholm University (6

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Advisor for undergraduate and master theses in Demography and Sociology at Stockholm University (448 supervision hours),

2012-present

Topic coordinator for the topic “population change, migration, and family” for C-level theses at the Sociology Department,

Stockholm University, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Advisor for Kathrin Morosow, PhD Student in Sociological Demography, Stockholm University, 2014-2018

Opponent for Mark Gortfelders PhD-defence at Talinn University (2020)

External pre-PhD-defence examiner to Mark Gortfelders at Talinn University (2020)

External member of the reading group for Johan Junkkas PhD thesis at Umeå University (2018)

Advisor for Per Ola Ockell master thesis in Demography “Generalized trust and fertility - A micro-level analysis of social trust

and its relationship to fertility” , Stockholm University, 2020

Advisor Simon Helperin master thesis in Sociology “An Economic Proposition? Educational Assortative Mating and Earnings

inequality in Sweden, 2000-2010”, Stockholm University, 2020

Advisor for Marcus Immonen Hagley master thesis in Demography “Kinship structure in Sweden 2041: Differences between

Swedish born and Iranian born in the birth cohort of 1965-1975”, Stockholm University, 2018

Advisor for Markus Läll, master thesis in Demography “Fertility transition in 19th-20th century Estonia: An individual level

perspective” available as SRRD 2015:24, Stockholm University, 2014

Author of two chapters in a course book in demography for a Swedish undergraduate audience (see publications)

Examiner 3 master theses in sociology and demography (2017, 2018, 2019), second examiner 3 master theses in demography

(2016, 2017, 2018), opponent 2 master theses (2016, 2020)

PEDAGOGICAL COURSES, GRADUATE SCHOOLS, ADVANCED LEVEL COURSES, AND WORKSHOPS

University pedagogical course, “Research supervision — theory and practice”, 3 hp, Stockholm University, 2020

University pedagogical course, “Professional Development Course on Teaching and Learning 1 (UL1)”, 7.5 hp, Stockholm

University, 2014

University pedagogical course, “Supervision of Student Theses”, 4.5 hp, Stockholm University, 2014

“Citi Training Biomedical Course” on Ethics in Human Subject Research, Online Course, CITI Program, University of Utah,

May 2017

IDEM 134: Matrix Approaches to Health Demography”, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR),

Rostock, Germany, January 2016

IDEM 156: “Spatial Demography Concepts, Spatial Statistics, GIS and Cartographic Techniques”, Max Planck Institute for

Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany, January 2015

Participant in the “Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy”, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, April

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“Spatial Mobility over the Life Course and its Links to Family Life - LIVES Winter School”, les Diablerets, Switzerland,

March 2014

ICPSR “Summer Program in Quantitative Methods”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA, July 2013-August 2013

“Competing risks and multi-state models”, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2012

“Inequality and the Life Course”, ECSR-EQUALSOC-summer school, Trento, Italy, September 2012

Participant in the “Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School in Register-based Research (SINGS)”, various Swedish

universities, an assortment of courses. March 2010-September 2012

IMPRSD 189: “Introduction to Evolutionary Demography”, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR),

Rostock, Germany, July 2011

IMPRSD 116: “Microsimulation using SocSim”, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock,

Germany, June 2010

IMPRSD 172: “Historical Demography”, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, August 2009

ICPSR “Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data Workshop”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA,

July 2009-August 2009

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Received support from (10 SEK ≈ 1 USD):

Larger grants:

“Demographic and economic growth during three centuries. Longitudinal micro-level data for 1800-2007 from Sweden and

Taiwan.” Riksbankens Jublieumsfond, Project investigator, 2018-2021, 2 709 000 SEK

“Rising social inequalities and Swedish fertility decline” Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare

(FORTE), of 4 300 000 SEK for 2021-2023 (co-applicant, PI Gunnar Andersson)

“The shadow of peasant past: The impact of past generations on living conditions in contemporary Sweden” Swedish

Scientific Council (Vetenskapsrådet), 2020-2023, 4 615 780 SEK (co-applicant, PI Martin Hällsten)

“The shadow of peasant past: The impact of past generations on living conditions in contemporary Sweden” Swedish

Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2020-2022, 4 200 000 SEK (co-applicant, PI Martin

Hällsten , declined)

“Demographic change and ethnolinguistic identity in an intergenerational perspective: The Swedish‐speaking population in

Finland (DemSwed)”, Åbo Akademi center of excellence, program of 1 000 000 EUR for 2019-2023 (co-applicant, PI. Jan

Saarela)

“Climate ethics and future generations” Riksbankens Jublieumsfond, member of a program of 40 930 000 SEK for 2018-

2023 (co-applicant, PI Gustaf Arrhenius)

“Ageing Well: Individuals, Families and Households under Changing Demographic Regimes in Sweden” Swedish Research

Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), program of 9 000 000 SEK for 2017-2022 (co-applicant, PI Gunnar

Andersson)



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“Swedish families in the past and present: Family structure and kinship over 250 years” Swedish Research Council for

Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 3 030 000 SEK for 2014-2017 (main organizer/contributor of the project as I

was a PhD student when applying, together with PI Gunnar Andersson and Jani Turunen)

“Age structure and cultural learning – a matrix population modeling approach”, Planning grant for cross-faculty research

projects, Main investigator with Magnus Enquist, 2016, Stockholm University (88 000 SEK)

“Cultural Evolutionary Demography”, Planning grant for cross-faculty research projects, co-applicant together with Magnus

Enquist, Daniel Cownden, Stefano Ghirlanda, & Arne Jarrick, 2015, Stockholm University (74 240 SEK)

Minor grants:

STINT: The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, (125 000 SEK)

Sweden-America Foundation, (40 000 SEK)

Swedish International Development Agency’s (SIDA) scholarship for internships at international organizations, (25 000 SEK)

Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School in Register-based Research (SINGS), (10 000 SEK)

Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy, (6 000+12 000+6 000+14 000 SEK)

The Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation (30 000 SEK)

Åke Wibergs foundation (50 000 SEK)

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs foundation, (20 000 + 24 500 SEK)

Rhodin, Elizabeth & Herman foundation, (9 000 SEK)

Magnus Bergvalls foundation (40 000 SEK)

Wenner-Gren foundation (14 000 SEK)

Lydia och Emil Kinanders foundation (10 000 + 20 000 SEK)

the Taiwanese Ministry of Education’s Huayu Enrichment Scholarship - 教育部華語文獎學金, (6 months: tuition+living

expenses)

FAS/FORTE-Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap, (7 200+10 800+8 900 SEK)

NordForsk - Register-Based Life Course Studies: Sociological, Demographic, and Economic Perspectives (6 000+4 000

SEK)

(US) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, (1 350 USD)

Furthermore, an assortment of other grants and awards to cover travel costs, course attendance and conference fees

LANGUAGE & COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages: English (fluent), Swedish (native), Mandarin (intermediate), German (basic)

Skills in data management and statistics: Very experienced using STATA and SQL, knowledge of R and micro

simulations (SocSim). Skills in survival analysis, management of individual longitudinal data, complex relational databases,

national population registers (Sweden & Finland), and multinational panel surveys (DHS,GGS, WVS, FFS). Experience

programming in Java and C++. Extensive knowledge of a large number of different registers in Swedish national

administrative register data.



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