Gunnar Andersson Professor of Demography
Contact
Name and title: Gunnar AnderssonProfessor of Demography
Phone: +468163261
Workplace: Department of Sociology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room B 857
About me
Gunnar Andersson is Professor in Demography and Head of the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA). He coordinates research projects in register- and survey-based demographic research, and is involved in research programs with focus on fertility and family dynamics, ageing, and migrant life trajectories.
Curriculum Vitae with full list of publications pdf, 468.3 kB.
Research on Sweden's falling birth rates pdf, 712.6 kB.
High and low resolution photos, 2023. Photo: Rickard Kilström/Stockholms universitet
High and low resolution photos, 2023. Photo: Elin Sahlin/Stockholm Universitet
Research keywords
Demography, fertility, mortality, migration, family formation, register-based research, generations and gender, Nordic countries, Sweden
Andersson, Gunnar, 2026. From relatively high to declining fertility rates: What happened in Sweden? Report nr. 2 for the Committee for a Future with Children. Sweden's Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.
Ohlsson-Wijk, Sofi, and Gunnar Andersson, 2022. Disentangling the Swedish fertility decline of the 2010s. Demographic Research 47(12): 345-358.
Cantalini, Stefano, Sofi Ohlsson-Wijk and Gunnar Andersson, 2024. Cohabitation and marriage formation in times of fertility decline: The case of Sweden in the twenty-first century. European Journal of Population 40, article 15.
Andersson, Gunar, Marit Rønsen, Lisbeth Knudsen, Trude Lappegård, Gerda Neyer, Kari Skrede, Kathrin Teschner and Andres Vikat, 2009. Cohort fertility patterns in the Nordic countries. Demographic Research 20(14): 313-352.
Höhn, Andreas, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu and Brad Campbell, 2024. Childbearing across immigrants and their descendants in Sweden: The role of generation and gender. International Migration Review 59(4): 1919-1949.
Andersson, Gunnar and Sven Drefahl, 2017. Long-distance migration and mortality in Sweden: Testing the salmon bias and healthy migrant hypotheses. Population, Space and Place 23(4): e2032.
Andersson, Gunnar, 2004. Childbearing after migration: Fertility patterns of foreign-born women in Sweden. International Migration Review 38(2): 747-775.
Drefahl, Sven, Matthew Wallace, Eleonora Mussino, Siddartha Aradhya, Martin Kolk, Maria Brandén, Bo Malmberg, and Gunnar Andersson, 2020. A population-based cohort study of socio-demographic risk factors for COVID-19 deaths in Sweden. Nature Communications 11: 5097.
Neyer, Gerda, Gunnar Andersson and Johan Dahlberg, 2024. The Swedish Generations and Gender Survey 2021: Forerunner of new modules for the Generations and Gender Programme. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research 57: 145-164.
Andersson, Gunnar, Andrea Monti and Martin Kolk, 2023. Vem bor här? En ESO-rapport om gamla och nya folkräkningar. Rapport till Expertgruppen för Studier i Offentlig ekonnomi 2023:2. Regeringskansliet: Statens offentliga utredningar. ISBN 978-91-525-0550-2.
