Siddartha Aradhya
Biographic Data
| ID | 375912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siddartha Aradhya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siddartha |
| FAMILY NAME | Aradhya |
| SIGNATURE | ARADHYA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3748-6270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From “Them” to “Us”: Intergroup Contact Leads to Improved Intergroup Attitudes through Building Common Ingroup Identity: Longitudinal Evidence from Four European Countries
The successful integration of ethnic minorities is largely contingent on establishing positive relations between minority and majority groups. Drawing on the common ingroup identity model, we argue that for minority youth, intergroup contact (e.g., friendship) with majority youth predicts more positive attitudes toward the majority group because it may foster a stronger common-ingroup identity. Using three-wave panel data from the Children of Imm…
Beyond hiring: The dynamics of ethnic disparities in unemployment
Many ethnic and racial minorities experience higher unemployment rates than majority populations. Recent research in this area has largely focused on inequalities in getting a job—through employer discrimination in hiring—using field experiments. While these studies typically identify significant levels of discrimination, they rarely examine or discuss how hiring discrimination contributes to ethnic employment penalties at the aggregate level. Ou…
Group Differences in Income Distributions, Poverty Gaps, and Poverty Buffers: Inequalities between the Children of Swedish-Born and Migrant Parents
Conventional approaches define income poverty as a binary status, implying that being poor or nonpoor is equivalent across groups. The authors propose a novel visualization that moves beyond head count rates to display group-specific income distributions relative to the poverty threshold, simultaneously illustrating poverty prevalence, poverty gaps, and what the authors term poverty buffers: the distance above the threshold capturing income secur…
Is overqualification a stepping stone for career progression among children of immigrants
Overqualification is one of the key labor market disadvantages that the children of immigrants born in the host society––the second-generation (G2)––disproportionately experience compared to the majority population. A higher prevalence of overqualification among the G2 may result from their strategic choice to circumvent persistent unemployment but also from the use of overqualification as a stepping stone into adequate employment ––as predicted …
Returns to Returning with Sibling Comparisons: Register-Based Evidence from Finland
How experience of migration affects the labor market outcome after remigration is difficult to examine because both migration and remigration processes are driven by various mechanisms of selection. In this study, we investigate the labor market outcomes of return migration in Finland in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. With Finnish register data covering the period 1987–2019, we use a counterfactual sibling fixed-effects design that compa…
Poverty Dynamics in Early Childhood among the Native-Born Children of Immigrants in Sweden and Finland
This brief report delves into the poverty dynamics of second-generation immigrant (G2) children in Sweden and Finland, comparing them with their peers from the majority population. These are unique contexts to examine such socioeconomic inequalities since they are the two highest ranked countries in terms of the Migrant Integration Policy Index. This study draws on longitudinal full-population register data from 2011–2019 for children aged 0–4. T…
Armed conflict and birthweight: The role of organized violence and anti-coca fumigation in Colombia
Armed conflict has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, with long-term negative health effects for current and future generations. This study analyzes birthweight in Colombia, where a long-standing conflict has created multiple stressors that may impair maternal and child health, including high levels of conflict mortality and anti-coca fumigation. We analyze births in 2000-2016 using Demographic and Health Survey data from 2004/2005,…
Labor market disadvantages and mental health among the second-generation children of immigrants in Sweden. A population cohort study
Children of immigrants born in the host country -the second generation (G2)-face higher risks of unemployment and overqualification compared to the majority native population in Western Europe. While the health effects of unemployment and overqualification are well documented, it remains unclear whether these factors impact the mental health of the G2 in the same way as in the majority population. This study uses Swedish register data to examine …
Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported Covid-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
BACKGROUND: The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths differed across countries and across waves of the pandemic. Patterns also differed between groups within a country. OBJECTIVE: We combine data on excess mortality with data on cause-of-death-specific mortality in the case of Sweden to identify which groups had excess mortality beyond what can be captured by analyses of COVID-19-specific deaths. We also explore the possibility that some groups ma…
Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following separation? Sweden 1997-2015
Separation often leads to worse economic consequences for women than for men. However, little is known about how economic consequences of separation play out for different groups of women. Women who are younger than their male partner are generally assumed to have lesser agency, but evidence mostly comes from contexts with low gender equality. Here, we examine women's benefit recipiency as a function of the partner age gap of their dissolved unio…
Is it Better to Intermarry? Immigration Background of Married Couples and Suicide Risk Among Native-Born and Migrant Persons in Sweden
Marriage is protective against suicide across most populations, including for persons of different ethnicities and immigrant backgrounds. However, the well-being benefits of marriage are contingent upon marital characteristics—such as conflict and quality—that may vary across spousal dyads with different immigration backgrounds. Leveraging Swedish register data, we compare suicide mortality among married persons on the basis of their and their sp…
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants
Many immigrant groups disproportionately experience unemployment and this disadvantage often extends to their children-the second generation. This paper contributes to this stream of research by studying unemployment dynamics of the ancestral population and second-generation immigrants in Sweden. In particular, we ask: does unemployment persistence differ between ancestral Swedes and 10 second-generation immigrant groups? We answer this question …
Immigrant ancestry and birthweight across two generations born in Sweden: An intergenerational cohort study
INTRODUCTION: Differences in birthweight are often seen between migrants and natives. However, whether migrant-native birthweight inequalities widen, narrow or remain persistent across generations when comparing the descendants of immigrants and natives remains understudied. We examined inequalities in birthweight of mothers (G2) and daughters (G3) of foreign-born grandmothers (G1) compared with those of Swedish-born grandmothers. METHODS: We use…
A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for Covid-19 deaths in Sweden
As global deaths from COVID-19 continue to rise, the world’s governments, institutions, and agencies are still working toward an understanding of who is most at risk of death. In this study, data on all recorded COVID-19 deaths in Sweden up to May 7, 2020 are linked to high-quality and accurate individual-level background data from administrative registers of the total population. By means of individual-level survival analysis we demonstrate that…
Father’s Repeat Migration and Children’s Educational Performance
Repeat migration is a common, but unstudied, pattern of migration. This study examines the potential intergenerational consequences of this behavior. To investigate this, we estimate the effect of fathers’ repeat migration on their children’s grade point averages using population-level register data from Sweden. We find that the children of fathers who repeat migrate have a significantly lower grade point average, even after controlling for indiv…
Region of Origin: Settlement Decisions of Turkish and Iranian Immigrants in Sweden, 1968–2001
This paper focuses on the residential resettlement decisions of a sample of immigrants from Iran and Turkey living in Sweden between 1968 and 2001. Using the Swedish Longitudinal Immigrant database, we are able to link unique pre‐ and post‐migration data to understand whether region of origin is a better predictor of internal migration decisions than is country of origin, the more often used measure in existing research. More specifically, we tes…
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants
Many immigrant groups disproportionately experience unemployment and this disadvantage often extends to their children-the second generation. This paper contributes to this stream of research by studying unemployment dynamics of the ancestral population and second-generation immigrants in Sweden. In particular, we ask: does unemployment persistence differ between ancestral Swedes and 10 second-generation immigrant groups? We answer this question …
Region of Origin: Settlement Decisions of Turkish and Iranian Immigrants in Sweden, 1968–2001
This paper focuses on the residential resettlement decisions of a sample of immigrants from Iran and Turkey living in Sweden between 1968 and 2001. Using the Swedish Longitudinal Immigrant database, we are able to link unique pre‐ and post‐migration data to understand whether region of origin is a better predictor of internal migration decisions than is country of origin, the more often used measure in existing research. More specifically, we tes…
Armed conflict and birthweight: The role of organized violence and anti-coca fumigation in Colombia
Armed conflict has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, with long-term negative health effects for current and future generations. This study analyzes birthweight in Colombia, where a long-standing conflict has created multiple stressors that may impair maternal and child health, including high levels of conflict mortality and anti-coca fumigation. We analyze births in 2000-2016 using Demographic and Health Survey data from 2004/2005,…
Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported Covid-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
BACKGROUND: The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths differed across countries and across waves of the pandemic. Patterns also differed between groups within a country. OBJECTIVE: We combine data on excess mortality with data on cause-of-death-specific mortality in the case of Sweden to identify which groups had excess mortality beyond what can be captured by analyses of COVID-19-specific deaths. We also explore the possibility that some groups ma…
Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following separation? Sweden 1997-2015
Separation often leads to worse economic consequences for women than for men. However, little is known about how economic consequences of separation play out for different groups of women. Women who are younger than their male partner are generally assumed to have lesser agency, but evidence mostly comes from contexts with low gender equality. Here, we examine women's benefit recipiency as a function of the partner age gap of their dissolved unio…
Is it Better to Intermarry? Immigration Background of Married Couples and Suicide Risk Among Native-Born and Migrant Persons in Sweden
Marriage is protective against suicide across most populations, including for persons of different ethnicities and immigrant backgrounds. However, the well-being benefits of marriage are contingent upon marital characteristics—such as conflict and quality—that may vary across spousal dyads with different immigration backgrounds. Leveraging Swedish register data, we compare suicide mortality among married persons on the basis of their and their sp…
Region of Origin: Settlement Decisions of Turkish and Iranian Immigrants in Sweden, 1968–2001
This paper focuses on the residential resettlement decisions of a sample of immigrants from Iran and Turkey living in Sweden between 1968 and 2001. Using the Swedish Longitudinal Immigrant database, we are able to link unique pre‐ and post‐migration data to understand whether region of origin is a better predictor of internal migration decisions than is country of origin, the more often used measure in existing research. More specifically, we tes…
Father’s Repeat Migration and Children’s Educational Performance
Repeat migration is a common, but unstudied, pattern of migration. This study examines the potential intergenerational consequences of this behavior. To investigate this, we estimate the effect of fathers’ repeat migration on their children’s grade point averages using population-level register data from Sweden. We find that the children of fathers who repeat migrate have a significantly lower grade point average, even after controlling for indiv…
A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for Covid-19 deaths in Sweden
As global deaths from COVID-19 continue to rise, the world’s governments, institutions, and agencies are still working toward an understanding of who is most at risk of death. In this study, data on all recorded COVID-19 deaths in Sweden up to May 7, 2020 are linked to high-quality and accurate individual-level background data from administrative registers of the total population. By means of individual-level survival analysis we demonstrate that…
Immigrant ancestry and birthweight across two generations born in Sweden: An intergenerational cohort study
INTRODUCTION: Differences in birthweight are often seen between migrants and natives. However, whether migrant-native birthweight inequalities widen, narrow or remain persistent across generations when comparing the descendants of immigrants and natives remains understudied. We examined inequalities in birthweight of mothers (G2) and daughters (G3) of foreign-born grandmothers (G1) compared with those of Swedish-born grandmothers. METHODS: We use…
Is it Better to Intermarry? Immigration Background of Married Couples and Suicide Risk Among Native-Born and Migrant Persons in Sweden
Marriage is protective against suicide across most populations, including for persons of different ethnicities and immigrant backgrounds. However, the well-being benefits of marriage are contingent upon marital characteristics—such as conflict and quality—that may vary across spousal dyads with different immigration backgrounds. Leveraging Swedish register data, we compare suicide mortality among married persons on the basis of their and their sp…
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants
Many immigrant groups disproportionately experience unemployment and this disadvantage often extends to their children-the second generation. This paper contributes to this stream of research by studying unemployment dynamics of the ancestral population and second-generation immigrants in Sweden. In particular, we ask: does unemployment persistence differ between ancestral Swedes and 10 second-generation immigrant groups? We answer this question …
Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported Covid-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
BACKGROUND: The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths differed across countries and across waves of the pandemic. Patterns also differed between groups within a country. OBJECTIVE: We combine data on excess mortality with data on cause-of-death-specific mortality in the case of Sweden to identify which groups had excess mortality beyond what can be captured by analyses of COVID-19-specific deaths. We also explore the possibility that some groups ma…
Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following separation? Sweden 1997-2015
Separation often leads to worse economic consequences for women than for men. However, little is known about how economic consequences of separation play out for different groups of women. Women who are younger than their male partner are generally assumed to have lesser agency, but evidence mostly comes from contexts with low gender equality. Here, we examine women's benefit recipiency as a function of the partner age gap of their dissolved unio…
Armed conflict and birthweight: The role of organized violence and anti-coca fumigation in Colombia
Armed conflict has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, with long-term negative health effects for current and future generations. This study analyzes birthweight in Colombia, where a long-standing conflict has created multiple stressors that may impair maternal and child health, including high levels of conflict mortality and anti-coca fumigation. We analyze births in 2000-2016 using Demographic and Health Survey data from 2004/2005,…
Labor market disadvantages and mental health among the second-generation children of immigrants in Sweden. A population cohort study
Children of immigrants born in the host country -the second generation (G2)-face higher risks of unemployment and overqualification compared to the majority native population in Western Europe. While the health effects of unemployment and overqualification are well documented, it remains unclear whether these factors impact the mental health of the G2 in the same way as in the majority population. This study uses Swedish register data to examine …
From “Them” to “Us”: Intergroup Contact Leads to Improved Intergroup Attitudes through Building Common Ingroup Identity: Longitudinal Evidence from Four European Countries
The successful integration of ethnic minorities is largely contingent on establishing positive relations between minority and majority groups. Drawing on the common ingroup identity model, we argue that for minority youth, intergroup contact (e.g., friendship) with majority youth predicts more positive attitudes toward the majority group because it may foster a stronger common-ingroup identity. Using three-wave panel data from the Children of Imm…
Beyond hiring: The dynamics of ethnic disparities in unemployment
Many ethnic and racial minorities experience higher unemployment rates than majority populations. Recent research in this area has largely focused on inequalities in getting a job—through employer discrimination in hiring—using field experiments. While these studies typically identify significant levels of discrimination, they rarely examine or discuss how hiring discrimination contributes to ethnic employment penalties at the aggregate level. Ou…
Group Differences in Income Distributions, Poverty Gaps, and Poverty Buffers: Inequalities between the Children of Swedish-Born and Migrant Parents
Conventional approaches define income poverty as a binary status, implying that being poor or nonpoor is equivalent across groups. The authors propose a novel visualization that moves beyond head count rates to display group-specific income distributions relative to the poverty threshold, simultaneously illustrating poverty prevalence, poverty gaps, and what the authors term poverty buffers: the distance above the threshold capturing income secur…
Is overqualification a stepping stone for career progression among children of immigrants
Overqualification is one of the key labor market disadvantages that the children of immigrants born in the host society––the second-generation (G2)––disproportionately experience compared to the majority population. A higher prevalence of overqualification among the G2 may result from their strategic choice to circumvent persistent unemployment but also from the use of overqualification as a stepping stone into adequate employment ––as predicted …
Returns to Returning with Sibling Comparisons: Register-Based Evidence from Finland
How experience of migration affects the labor market outcome after remigration is difficult to examine because both migration and remigration processes are driven by various mechanisms of selection. In this study, we investigate the labor market outcomes of return migration in Finland in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. With Finnish register data covering the period 1987–2019, we use a counterfactual sibling fixed-effects design that compa…
Poverty Dynamics in Early Childhood among the Native-Born Children of Immigrants in Sweden and Finland
This brief report delves into the poverty dynamics of second-generation immigrant (G2) children in Sweden and Finland, comparing them with their peers from the majority population. These are unique contexts to examine such socioeconomic inequalities since they are the two highest ranked countries in terms of the Migrant Integration Policy Index. This study draws on longitudinal full-population register data from 2011–2019 for children aged 0–4. T…
Demography (9 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)