LNU-publikationer
Sedan slutet av 1960-talet har Levnadsnivåundersökningen (LNU) bidragit med viktig kunskap om välfärdens utveckling i Sverige. Undersökningen har genom åren legat till grund för många avhandlingar och vetenskapliga artiklar. Här hittar du ett urval av publikationer och böcker som bygger på analyser av LNU.

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Vetenskapliga artiklar
Augustsson, E., Keller Celeste, R., Fors, S., Rehnberg, J., Lennartsson, C. & Agahi, N. (2025). Friends and trends: Friendship across life phases and cohorts. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 135.
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2025.105872
Boye, K. (2025). Paid leave to care for sick children: The limitations and opportunities at work. Community, Work & Family, 28(3), 337–362.
DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2023.2295229
Mood, C. & Kjellsson, S. (2025). Divergent incomes, divergent lives? A multidimensional assessment of disparities in the level of living during Sweden’s income equality U-turn, 1968–2010. Mens & Maatschappij, 100(2), 179–200.
DOI: 10.5117/MEM2025.2.004.MOOD
Naurin, E., Markstedt, E., Schneider, M. C., Lizotte, M.-K. & Stolle, D. (2025). The effects of parental leave on attitudes toward the state. Politics & Gender, 21(4), 824–846.
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X25000054
Nilsen, C., Finkel, D., Sindi, S. & Kåreholt, I. (2025). Different stressors across the life course have different paths to impact cognitive and physical aging. Advances in Life Course Research, 63.
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100661
Rödenhake, E., Fritzell, J., Rostgaard, T. & Agahi, N. (2025). Varför återhämtar sig vissa äldre personer efter förluster och andra inte? Äldre i Centrum: Vetenskapligt supplement, 5(1), 37–53.
DOI: 10.52585/icvs.v5i1.22
2024
Agahi, N., Augustsson, E., McGarrigle, C., Rostgaard, T. & Fritzell, J. (2024). Psychosocial resilience surrounding age-typical losses among older adults in Sweden: Group-based trajectories over a 25-year period. Frontiers in Public Health, 12.
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1434439
Almstedt Valldor, A. (2024). Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe. Social Science Research, 124.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103091
Augustsson, E., Fors, S. & Agahi, N. (2024). 20-year trends in the social participation of the oldest old. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 53(7), 721–730.
DOI: 10.1177/14034948241261720
Bihagen, E., Shahbazian, R. & Kjellsson, S. (2024). Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 89.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100884
Cecchini, V. & Agahi, N. (2024). Does losing family members in midlife matter for late-life mental and cognitive health? A longitudinal study of older Swedes spanning 30 years. Aging & Mental Health, 28(10), 1401–1409.
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2024.2341877
Grönlund, A. & Öun, I. (2024). Shackled by double disadvantage? Gender, segregation and immigrants’ occupational attainments. Acta Sociologica, 68(1), 83–101.
DOI: 10.1177/00016993231219133
2023
Wahlström, J., Magnusson, C., Brolin Låftman, S. & Svensson, J. (2023). Parents’ drinking, childhood hangover? Parental alcohol use, subjective health complaints and perceived stress among Swedish adolescents aged 10–18 years. BMC Public Health, 23, 162.
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15097-w
Avhandlingar
Almstedt Valldor, A. (2025). Essays on the Links Between Vertical and Horizontal Social Stratification, Political Attitudes, and Radical Right Support: Evidence from Sweden and Europe. Stockholms universitet.
Syk, E. (2025). Quantifying (ine)quality: Job quality over half a century in Sweden and Europe. Stockholms universitet.
Palmtag, E.-L. (2023). Breaking down break-ups: Studies on the heterogeneity in (adult) children’s outcomes following a parental separation. Stockholms universitet.
Böcker
Boye, K., & Westerman, J. (red.). (2026). Välfärd och livsvillkor. Perspektiv på samtida samhällsbilder. Liber.
Bokkapitel
Grönlund, A., & Magnusson, C. (2024). “Workplace flexibility and the dilemmas of family-friendly choice: A new perspective on the puzzling gender inequality in Sweden”. I Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work, red. Rönnmar, M., & Hayter, S. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Magnusson, C., & Tåhlin, M. (2023). “Skills, class and gender”. I A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality, red. Tåhlin, M. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Westerman, J., & Syk, E. (2023). “Skills and structural change”. I A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality, red. Tåhlin, M. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Rapporter
Senast uppdaterad: 2026-11-09
Sidansvarig: Institutet för social forskning,Psykologiska institutionen