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ID91639
NAMEJ Harkonen
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEHarkonen
SIGNATUREHARKONEN J
AFFILIATIONSStockholm University
ORCID0000-0001-9687-1932
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS426
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX11
  • Beyond hiring

    Open Access•Raffaele Grotti, Siddartha Aradhya et al.•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2026

    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…

  • The very early antecedents of Neet

    Open Access•Niko Eskelinen, Laura Salonen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•2026•References: 71

    Young people who are neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) are at risk of long-term exclusion and poorer wellbeing. Besides individual costs and adverse later life consequences, NEET can impose significant societal costs, making it a major public policy concern and an important indicator of social exclusion. Using high-quality register data on Finnish birth cohorts born between 1987 and 1992, we compared the risk of being NEET…

  • Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit

    Open Access•Joris Frese, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 17

    Public support for Brexit has declined since the 2016 referendum. We argue that part of this decline is due to cohort replacement where many older voters (who support Brexit) have passed away, while younger voters (who oppose Brexit) have entered the electorate. Using a series of original YouGov surveys from 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, each representative of the UK electorate, we first demonstrate the large and stable differences in Brexit support…

  • The effect of parental separation on educational achievement

    Open Access•Michael Grätz, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 57

    Parental separation is associated with a range of negative outcomes for children experiencing it, and there is ongoing scholarly and public interest in whether these associations reflect causal effects of parental separation. We estimate the effect of parental separation on children's educational achievement in Sweden using the proportion of male colleagues at the maternal workplace as an instrumental variable for parental separation. We discuss …

  • The Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes

    Open Access•Marco Cozzani, P Fallesen et al.•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2024•Cited by: 7•References: 72

    We examine the joint consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for fertility and birth outcomes by drawing on full population administrative data from Spain. We find a surprising improvement in birth outcomes in November and to a less extent in December 2020 (eight to nine months after the first wave of the pandemic) compared with monthly trends in the 10 previous years (2010-2019). The improvement in birth outcomes was shortly followed by a decline …

  • Double Disadvantage in a Nordic Welfare State

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Marika Jalovaara et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 49

    This study demonstrates how an evolving negative educational gradient of single parenthood can interact with changing labour market conditions to shape labour market inequalities between partnered and single parents. We analysed trends in employment rates among Finnish partnered and single mothers and fathers from 1987 to 2018. In the late 1980s’ Finland, single mothers’ employment was internationally high and on par with that of partnered mother…

  • Single Motherhood and Multigenerational Coresidence in Europe

    Open Access•B Hogendoorn, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 115

    Single motherhood has increased throughout Europe. Single mothers assume the dual role of provider and caregiver and often need external support from public policies or kin to meet their needs. Research has focused primarily on public policies, disregarding the role of kin support—and of multigenerational coresidence in particular. This study provides the first detailed description of single mothers’ multigenerational coresidence in Europe. To do…

  • The Sensitivity of Family-Related Behaviors to Economic and Social Turbulence in Post-Socialist Countries, 1970-2010

    Open Access•Sunnee Billingsley, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Population Studies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    Many demographic challenges and new trends have been observed across formerly state socialist countries after embarking on their political and economic transition. Including countries that range from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, this study explores whether some family-related events were more sensitive to the transformation that occurred in the 1990s than others, and whether the disruption was immediate or delayed across this wide range of con…

  • Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants

    Open Access•Siddartha Aradhya, Raffaele Grotti et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2023•Cited by: 10•References: 58

    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 …

  • Floods and maternal healthcare utilisation in Bangladesh

    Open Access•Hilde Orderud, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•Population and Environment•2022•References: 50

    Floods are a common natural hazard in Bangladesh, and climate change is expected to further increase flooding frequency, magnitude and extent. Pregnant women in flood contexts could face challenges in utilisation of maternal healthcare. The aim of this paper is to analyse associations between flood exposure and the use of maternal healthcare (antenatal care visits, birth assisted by skilled birth attendants, and giving birth in a health facility)…

  • Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations

    Open Access•Matti Lindberg, Saara Nolvi et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2021

    OBJECTIVES: Glucocorticoids are one component of human milk (HM) potentially affecting offspring development. Previous studies have identified various maternal, obstetric and socioeconomic characteristics that are associated with HM cortisol concentration but the literature is still scarce concerning these determinants in human populations. We aimed to identify which factors are linked with HM cortisol concentration at 2 months postpartum. METHOD…

  • Family Forerunners? Parental Separation and Partnership Formation in 16 Countries

    Open Access•J Harkonen, M D Bron et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2021

    Objective To analyze the relationships between parental separation and partnership formation patterns across 16 countries and over time, and how the relationships are shaped by contextual factors. Background Several studies have found that parental separation predicts higher rates of cohabitation and lower rates of marriage. Few studies have analyzed these relationships over time or across countries, and none have systematically analyzed whether …

  • Cash‐for‐Care Use and Union Dissolution in Finland

    Open Access•K Morosow, Marika Jalovaara et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2021

    OBJECTIVE: This study examines how the receipt of the cash-for-care (CFC) benefit affects short- and long-term risks of union dissolution. BACKGROUND: Several theories predict that couples' gendered division of labor decreases their risk of separation, either due to increased partnership satisfaction or because it establishes economic dependency. Family policies such as the Finnish CFC benefit, which is paid if a young child does not attend publi…

  • Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens

    Open Access•R A Settersten, L Bernardi et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Life Course Research•2020

  • Educational differences in prenatal anxiety and depressive symptoms and the role of childhood circumstances

    Open Access•Sanni Kotimäki, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•SSM - Population Health•2020

    Despite interest in unequal maternal and child health, previous research has not focused on educational differences in anxiety and depressive symptoms during pregnancy, although they threaten maternal and child wellbeing. Using the prospective FinnBrain Cohort Study data on 2763 pregnant women over the three pregnancy trimesters and Finnish register data, we estimated multilevel regressions to describe educational differences in prenatal anxiety …

  • Relationship between socioeconomic status and incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is dependent on age

    Open Access•Martin Jonsson, Petter Ljungman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2020•References: 23

    Background The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to see if area-level socioeconomic differences, measured in terms of area-level income and education, are associated with the incidence of OHCA, and if this relationship is dependent on age. Methods We included OHCAs that occurred in Stockholm County between the 1st of January 2006…

  • Over-coverage in population registers leads to bias in demographic estimates

    Open Access•Angel Monti, Sven Drefahl et al.•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 18

    Estimating the number of individuals living in a country is an essential task for demographers. This study assesses the potential bias in estimating the size of different migrant populations due to over-coverage in population registers. Over-coverage-individuals registered but not living in a country-is an increasingly pressing phenomenon; however, there is no common understanding of how to deal with over-coverage in demographic research. This st…

  • Nationalistic bias in sport performance evaluations

    Open Access•Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•References: 2

    Illegitimate biases of non-independent judges represent a threat to the legitimacy of international sport competitions. Judges’ nationalities represent one source of bias, as they consciously or subconsciously may prefer athletes from their own nation. Such biases may affect the outcomes of competitions. The literature offers no complete consensus on the magnitude, origin and stability of such biases. In this paper, we shed light on these problem…

  • Educational Transitions and Educational Inequality

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Outi Sirniö•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 37

    We developed a multiple pathways sequential logit model for analysing social background inequality in completed education and applied it to analyse educational inequality in Finland (birth cohorts 1960-1985). Our model builds on the sequential logit model for educational transitions, originally presented by Robert D. Mare and later extended by Maarten Buis, which disaggregates inequality in completed education into the weighted sum of inequalitie…

  • Moving back to “mamma”? Divorce, intergenerational coresidence, and latent family solidarity in Sweden

    Open Access•Marco Albertini, M Gahler et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 20•References: 13

    One of the most obvious consequences of divorce is the moving out of one or both ex‐partners from the formerly common household. Here we focus on a particular postdivorce residential move, the return to the parental home in Sweden, where intergenerational coresidence is uncommon. We ask whether family dissolution increases the likelihood of intergenerational coresidence among separated/divorced individuals who have at least 1 child below age 18. …

  • Why does women's education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorce

    Open Access•D Boertien, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Demographic Research•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 66

    Despite widespread attention paid to the negative correlation between female education and divorce, we lack an explanation for it. In this study we use social exchange theory to assess two broad groups of explanations. According to the â marital attractionâ

  • Parental Education and Family Dissolution

    Open Access•M D Bron, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 46

    This is the first study to systematically analyze whether the association between parental education and family dissolution varies cross-nationally and over time. The authors use meta-analytic tools to study cross-national variation between 17 countries with data from the Generations and Gender Study and Harmonized Histories. The association shows considerable cross-national variation, but is positive in most countries. The association between pa…

  • Parental Separation and School Performance Among Children of Immigrant Mothers in Sweden

    Open Access•Jeylan Erman, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 60

    Immigration and family change are two demographic processes that have changed the face of European societies and are associated with inequalities in child outcomes. Yet there is little research outside the USA on whether the effects of family dynamics on children's life chances vary by immigrant background. We asked whether the effect of parental separation on educational achievement varies between immigrant backgrounds (ancestries) in Sweden. We…

  • Family Dynamics and Child Outcomes

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Fabrizio Bernardi et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2017•Cited by: 38•References: 97

  • Divorce

    Open Access•J Harkonen•OTHER•Emerging Trends in the Social and…•2015

    There is by now a large literature on divorce which seeks to understand the underlying reasons behind trends in divorce rates and establish the predictors of divorce as well as its consequences for adults and children. Early research examined divorce over time and across societies, and developed conceptual models to understand which factors affect partners' decisions to divorce. Recent cutting edge research has expanded on this literature and exa…

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  • Stability and Change in the Educational Gradient of Divorce. A Comparison of Seventeen Countries

    J Harkonen, Jaap Dronkers•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2006•Cited by: 134

    In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the class composition of divorce is inverse. Starting from his hypothesis, we examine the relationship between female education and the risk of divorce over time in 17 countries. We expect that the relationship differs across countries and across time, so that women with higher education have a higher risk of divorce in countries and at times when the s…

  • Family Dynamics and Child Outcomes

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Fabrizio Bernardi et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2017•Cited by: 38•References: 97

  • The intergenerational transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective

    Jaap Dronkers, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2008•Cited by: 36•References: 30

    We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variation. Our results show that women whose parents divorced have a significantly higher risk of divorce in 17 countries. There is some cross-national variation. When compared with the USA, the association is strong…

  • Occupational Attainment and Career Progression in Sweden

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Erik Bihagen•ARTICLE•European Societies•2011•Cited by: 31•References: 21

    We analyze occupational attainment and career progression over the life course for Swedish men and women, born in 1925–1974. Careers progress (measured as improvements in occupational prestige) fast during the first 5–10 years in the labour market, and flatten out afterwards (approximately between 30–40 years of age). This is in line with the occupational status maturation hypothesis. Both class origin and educational attainment affect occupation…

  • Labor and Love

    Lynn Prince Cooke, J Erola et al.•ARTICLE•Social Politics International…•2013•Cited by: 28•References: 12

    We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…

  • Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment and Educational Transitions in West Germany

    J Harkonen•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2014•Cited by: 22•References: 51

    Using sibling data from the German Life History Study and fixed-effects models, I find that birth order has a strong negative effect on educational attainment in West Germany—being born later translates to less education. The strength of the birth order effect is comparable to those of many commonly used family background indicators. This finding contrasts many sceptical accounts of birth order found in the sociological and psychological literatu…

  • Moving back to “mamma”? Divorce, intergenerational coresidence, and latent family solidarity in Sweden

    Open Access•Marco Albertini, M Gahler et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 20•References: 13

    One of the most obvious consequences of divorce is the moving out of one or both ex‐partners from the formerly common household. Here we focus on a particular postdivorce residential move, the return to the parental home in Sweden, where intergenerational coresidence is uncommon. We ask whether family dissolution increases the likelihood of intergenerational coresidence among separated/divorced individuals who have at least 1 child below age 18. …

  • Why does women's education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorce

    Open Access•D Boertien, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Demographic Research•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 66

    Despite widespread attention paid to the negative correlation between female education and divorce, we lack an explanation for it. In this study we use social exchange theory to assess two broad groups of explanations. According to the â marital attractionâ

  • Cross-national differences in the gender gap in subjective health in Europe

    Open Access•J Dahlin, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2013•Cited by: 17•References: 12

  • Over-coverage in population registers leads to bias in demographic estimates

    Open Access•Angel Monti, Sven Drefahl et al.•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 18

    Estimating the number of individuals living in a country is an essential task for demographers. This study assesses the potential bias in estimating the size of different migrant populations due to over-coverage in population registers. Over-coverage-individuals registered but not living in a country-is an increasingly pressing phenomenon; however, there is no common understanding of how to deal with over-coverage in demographic research. This st…

  • Educational Transitions and Educational Inequality

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Outi Sirniö•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 37

    We developed a multiple pathways sequential logit model for analysing social background inequality in completed education and applied it to analyse educational inequality in Finland (birth cohorts 1960-1985). Our model builds on the sequential logit model for educational transitions, originally presented by Robert D. Mare and later extended by Maarten Buis, which disaggregates inequality in completed education into the weighted sum of inequalitie…

  • Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants

    Open Access•Siddartha Aradhya, Raffaele Grotti et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2023•Cited by: 10•References: 58

    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 …

  • Parental Separation and School Performance Among Children of Immigrant Mothers in Sweden

    Open Access•Jeylan Erman, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 60

    Immigration and family change are two demographic processes that have changed the face of European societies and are associated with inequalities in child outcomes. Yet there is little research outside the USA on whether the effects of family dynamics on children's life chances vary by immigrant background. We asked whether the effect of parental separation on educational achievement varies between immigrant backgrounds (ancestries) in Sweden. We…

  • Prenatal Health, Educational Attainment, and Intergenerational Inequality

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Hande Kaymakçalan et al.•ARTICLE•Demography•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 71

    In this article, we study the effects of prenatal health on educational attainment and on the reproduction of family background inequalities in education. Using Finnish birth cohort data, we analyze several maternal and fetal health variables, many of which have not been featured in the literature on long-term socioeconomic effects of health despite the effects of these variables on birth and short-term health outcomes. We find strong negative ef…

  • The Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes

    Open Access•Marco Cozzani, P Fallesen et al.•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2024•Cited by: 7•References: 72

    We examine the joint consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for fertility and birth outcomes by drawing on full population administrative data from Spain. We find a surprising improvement in birth outcomes in November and to a less extent in December 2020 (eight to nine months after the first wave of the pandemic) compared with monthly trends in the 10 previous years (2010-2019). The improvement in birth outcomes was shortly followed by a decline …

  • Single Motherhood and Multigenerational Coresidence in Europe

    Open Access•B Hogendoorn, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2023•Cited by: 7•References: 115

    Single motherhood has increased throughout Europe. Single mothers assume the dual role of provider and caregiver and often need external support from public policies or kin to meet their needs. Research has focused primarily on public policies, disregarding the role of kin support—and of multigenerational coresidence in particular. This study provides the first detailed description of single mothers’ multigenerational coresidence in Europe. To do…

  • Children and Dual Worklessness in Europe

    Open Access•J Harkonen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 36

  • Double Disadvantage in a Nordic Welfare State

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Marika Jalovaara et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 49

    This study demonstrates how an evolving negative educational gradient of single parenthood can interact with changing labour market conditions to shape labour market inequalities between partnered and single parents. We analysed trends in employment rates among Finnish partnered and single mothers and fathers from 1987 to 2018. In the late 1980s’ Finland, single mothers’ employment was internationally high and on par with that of partnered mother…

  • Parental Education and Family Dissolution

    Open Access•M D Bron, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 46

    This is the first study to systematically analyze whether the association between parental education and family dissolution varies cross-nationally and over time. The authors use meta-analytic tools to study cross-national variation between 17 countries with data from the Generations and Gender Study and Harmonized Histories. The association shows considerable cross-national variation, but is positive in most countries. The association between pa…

  • The effect of parental separation on educational achievement

    Open Access•Michael Grätz, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 57

    Parental separation is associated with a range of negative outcomes for children experiencing it, and there is ongoing scholarly and public interest in whether these associations reflect causal effects of parental separation. We estimate the effect of parental separation on children's educational achievement in Sweden using the proportion of male colleagues at the maternal workplace as an instrumental variable for parental separation. We discuss …

  • The Sensitivity of Family-Related Behaviors to Economic and Social Turbulence in Post-Socialist Countries, 1970-2010

    Open Access•Sunnee Billingsley, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Population Studies•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    Many demographic challenges and new trends have been observed across formerly state socialist countries after embarking on their political and economic transition. Including countries that range from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, this study explores whether some family-related events were more sensitive to the transformation that occurred in the 1990s than others, and whether the disruption was immediate or delayed across this wide range of con…

  • Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit

    Open Access•Joris Frese, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 17

    Public support for Brexit has declined since the 2016 referendum. We argue that part of this decline is due to cohort replacement where many older voters (who support Brexit) have passed away, while younger voters (who oppose Brexit) have entered the electorate. Using a series of original YouGov surveys from 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, each representative of the UK electorate, we first demonstrate the large and stable differences in Brexit support…

  • Stability and Change in the Educational Gradient of Divorce. A Comparison of Seventeen Countries

    J Harkonen, Jaap Dronkers•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2006•Cited by: 134

    In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the class composition of divorce is inverse. Starting from his hypothesis, we examine the relationship between female education and the risk of divorce over time in 17 countries. We expect that the relationship differs across countries and across time, so that women with higher education have a higher risk of divorce in countries and at times when the s…

  • The intergenerational transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective

    Jaap Dronkers, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2008•Cited by: 36•References: 30

    We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variation. Our results show that women whose parents divorced have a significantly higher risk of divorce in 17 countries. There is some cross-national variation. When compared with the USA, the association is strong…

  • Occupational Attainment and Career Progression in Sweden

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Erik Bihagen•ARTICLE•European Societies•2011•Cited by: 31•References: 21

    We analyze occupational attainment and career progression over the life course for Swedish men and women, born in 1925–1974. Careers progress (measured as improvements in occupational prestige) fast during the first 5–10 years in the labour market, and flatten out afterwards (approximately between 30–40 years of age). This is in line with the occupational status maturation hypothesis. Both class origin and educational attainment affect occupation…

  • Children and Dual Worklessness in Europe

    Open Access•J Harkonen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 36

  • More Careful or Less Marriageable? Parental Divorce, Spouse Selection and Entry into Marriage

    J Erola, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2012

    Despite the large literature on the long-term effects of parental divorce, few studies have analyzed the effects of parental divorce on spouse selection behavior. However, the characteristics of one's spouse can have important effects on economic well-being and on marital success. We use discrete-time, event-history data from Finnish population registers to study the effects of parental divorce on entry into marriage with spouses who have differe…

  • Prenatal Health, Educational Attainment, and Intergenerational Inequality

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Hande Kaymakçalan et al.•ARTICLE•Demography•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 71

    In this article, we study the effects of prenatal health on educational attainment and on the reproduction of family background inequalities in education. Using Finnish birth cohort data, we analyze several maternal and fetal health variables, many of which have not been featured in the literature on long-term socioeconomic effects of health despite the effects of these variables on birth and short-term health outcomes. We find strong negative ef…

  • Labor and Love

    Lynn Prince Cooke, J Erola et al.•ARTICLE•Social Politics International…•2013•Cited by: 28•References: 12

    We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…

  • Cross-national differences in the gender gap in subjective health in Europe

    Open Access•J Dahlin, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2013•Cited by: 17•References: 12

  • Moving On? A Growth-Curve Analysis of Occupational Attainment and Career Progression Patterns in West Germany

    Anna Manzoni, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Forces•2014

    In this paper, we use multilevel growth-curve analysis to model occupational stratification across West German careers for cohorts born between 1919 and 1971. We argue that a life-course approach gives a more appropriate perspective into social stratification by focusing on the permanence of inequalities across human lives. With data from the German Life History Study (GLHS), our primary interest is in the amount and timing of career progression …

  • Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment and Educational Transitions in West Germany

    J Harkonen•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2014•Cited by: 22•References: 51

    Using sibling data from the German Life History Study and fixed-effects models, I find that birth order has a strong negative effect on educational attainment in West Germany—being born later translates to less education. The strength of the birth order effect is comparable to those of many commonly used family background indicators. This finding contrasts many sceptical accounts of birth order found in the sociological and psychological literatu…

  • Divorce

    Open Access•J Harkonen•OTHER•Emerging Trends in the Social and…•2015

    There is by now a large literature on divorce which seeks to understand the underlying reasons behind trends in divorce rates and establish the predictors of divorce as well as its consequences for adults and children. Early research examined divorce over time and across societies, and developed conceptual models to understand which factors affect partners' decisions to divorce. Recent cutting edge research has expanded on this literature and exa…

  • Parental Separation and School Performance Among Children of Immigrant Mothers in Sweden

    Open Access•Jeylan Erman, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 60

    Immigration and family change are two demographic processes that have changed the face of European societies and are associated with inequalities in child outcomes. Yet there is little research outside the USA on whether the effects of family dynamics on children's life chances vary by immigrant background. We asked whether the effect of parental separation on educational achievement varies between immigrant backgrounds (ancestries) in Sweden. We…

  • Family Dynamics and Child Outcomes

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Fabrizio Bernardi et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Population /…•2017•Cited by: 38•References: 97

  • Moving back to “mamma”? Divorce, intergenerational coresidence, and latent family solidarity in Sweden

    Open Access•Marco Albertini, M Gahler et al.•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 20•References: 13

    One of the most obvious consequences of divorce is the moving out of one or both ex‐partners from the formerly common household. Here we focus on a particular postdivorce residential move, the return to the parental home in Sweden, where intergenerational coresidence is uncommon. We ask whether family dissolution increases the likelihood of intergenerational coresidence among separated/divorced individuals who have at least 1 child below age 18. …

  • Why does women's education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorce

    Open Access•D Boertien, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Demographic Research•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 66

    Despite widespread attention paid to the negative correlation between female education and divorce, we lack an explanation for it. In this study we use social exchange theory to assess two broad groups of explanations. According to the â marital attractionâ

  • Parental Education and Family Dissolution

    Open Access•M D Bron, J Harkonen•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 46

    This is the first study to systematically analyze whether the association between parental education and family dissolution varies cross-nationally and over time. The authors use meta-analytic tools to study cross-national variation between 17 countries with data from the Generations and Gender Study and Harmonized Histories. The association shows considerable cross-national variation, but is positive in most countries. The association between pa…

  • Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens

    Open Access•R A Settersten, L Bernardi et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Life Course Research•2020

  • Educational differences in prenatal anxiety and depressive symptoms and the role of childhood circumstances

    Open Access•Sanni Kotimäki, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•SSM - Population Health•2020

    Despite interest in unequal maternal and child health, previous research has not focused on educational differences in anxiety and depressive symptoms during pregnancy, although they threaten maternal and child wellbeing. Using the prospective FinnBrain Cohort Study data on 2763 pregnant women over the three pregnancy trimesters and Finnish register data, we estimated multilevel regressions to describe educational differences in prenatal anxiety …

  • Relationship between socioeconomic status and incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is dependent on age

    Open Access•Martin Jonsson, Petter Ljungman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2020•References: 23

    Background The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to see if area-level socioeconomic differences, measured in terms of area-level income and education, are associated with the incidence of OHCA, and if this relationship is dependent on age. Methods We included OHCAs that occurred in Stockholm County between the 1st of January 2006…

  • Over-coverage in population registers leads to bias in demographic estimates

    Open Access•Angel Monti, Sven Drefahl et al.•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 18

    Estimating the number of individuals living in a country is an essential task for demographers. This study assesses the potential bias in estimating the size of different migrant populations due to over-coverage in population registers. Over-coverage-individuals registered but not living in a country-is an increasingly pressing phenomenon; however, there is no common understanding of how to deal with over-coverage in demographic research. This st…

  • Nationalistic bias in sport performance evaluations

    Open Access•Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, J Harkonen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2020•References: 2

    Illegitimate biases of non-independent judges represent a threat to the legitimacy of international sport competitions. Judges’ nationalities represent one source of bias, as they consciously or subconsciously may prefer athletes from their own nation. Such biases may affect the outcomes of competitions. The literature offers no complete consensus on the magnitude, origin and stability of such biases. In this paper, we shed light on these problem…

  • Educational Transitions and Educational Inequality

    Open Access•J Harkonen, Outi Sirniö•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 37

    We developed a multiple pathways sequential logit model for analysing social background inequality in completed education and applied it to analyse educational inequality in Finland (birth cohorts 1960-1985). Our model builds on the sequential logit model for educational transitions, originally presented by Robert D. Mare and later extended by Maarten Buis, which disaggregates inequality in completed education into the weighted sum of inequalitie…

  • Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations

    Open Access•Matti Lindberg, Saara Nolvi et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2021

    OBJECTIVES: Glucocorticoids are one component of human milk (HM) potentially affecting offspring development. Previous studies have identified various maternal, obstetric and socioeconomic characteristics that are associated with HM cortisol concentration but the literature is still scarce concerning these determinants in human populations. We aimed to identify which factors are linked with HM cortisol concentration at 2 months postpartum. METHOD…

  • Family Forerunners? Parental Separation and Partnership Formation in 16 Countries

    Open Access•J Harkonen, M D Bron et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2021

    Objective To analyze the relationships between parental separation and partnership formation patterns across 16 countries and over time, and how the relationships are shaped by contextual factors. Background Several studies have found that parental separation predicts higher rates of cohabitation and lower rates of marriage. Few studies have analyzed these relationships over time or across countries, and none have systematically analyzed whether …

  • Cash‐for‐Care Use and Union Dissolution in Finland

    Open Access•K Morosow, Marika Jalovaara et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2021

    OBJECTIVE: This study examines how the receipt of the cash-for-care (CFC) benefit affects short- and long-term risks of union dissolution. BACKGROUND: Several theories predict that couples' gendered division of labor decreases their risk of separation, either due to increased partnership satisfaction or because it establishes economic dependency. Family policies such as the Finnish CFC benefit, which is paid if a young child does not attend publi…

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