Gunnar Andersson

Gunnar Andersson is Professor in Demography and Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Master's Programme in Demography at Stockholm University. He is Associate Director of the Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe, SPaDE, and coordinates "Register-based Research in Nordic Demography", as part of the Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM).

 

Research topics

• Pathways to highest-low fertility in universalistic welfare states
• Family policies and fertility behavior: child care, parental-leave policies and childbearing dynamics in Sweden
• Childbearing after migration: fertility patterns of foreign-born women
  
• Family dynamics and life-course perspectives in Europe
  
• The demographics of same-sex partnerships
  
• Sex preferences for children and family dynamics
  
• Advanced demographic methods
  

 

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

SPaDE

SUNDEM/SIMSAM

 

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