Journal of Family Issues, doi:10.1177/0192513X14522244. Abstract Couples generally move to accommodate men’s, rather than women’s, career opportunities. Using Swedish panel data including 1,039 married o

Advances in Life Course Research, Volume 38, P. 22-36. doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2018.10.003. Abstract This study examines how married couples’ age differencesand gender dynamics influence retirement coordi outcomes of all marital couples in Sweden. Using , we find that the likelihood of couples retiring close in time decreases as their age difference increases but that age differences have a similar effect on retirement coordination for couples with larger age differences. Additionally, retirement coordination is largely gender-neutral in opposite-sex couples with age differences regardless of whether the male spouse is older. Additionally, male same-sex couples retire closer in time than both opposite-sex couples and female same-sex couples. The definition of retirement coordination as the number of years between retirements contributes to the literature on couples’ retirement behavior and allows us to study the degree of retirement coordination among all couples, including those with larger age differences.

How do we find intimacy outside of the nuclear family? This project examines couple dance, the relationship between humans and pets, and cohousing residents.

In order to offer more in-depth knowledge in research methodology and application the Institute organizes courses open to researchers and to people who use research in their work. In addition, we orga

European Sociological Review Abstract We studied how individuals’ ethnolinguistic affiliation relates to the ethnolinguistic structure of kinship in contemporary Finland, a society in which Finnish-spea

The Swedish government has appointed Berit Högman to the board of the Institute for Futures Studies during 2017–2022. Berit Högman is Deputy Group Leader (SocDem) in the Swedish Parliament and has been

Population, Space and Place, Volume 23, Issue 1, doi.org/10.1002/psp.1973. Abstract Education is one of the most important drivers of regional migration in European countries, and educational expansion

Did you take part in Earth Hour last month? On the 24th of March each year a big part of the earth’s population in the most energy consuming countries turn the lights off for one hour to stress the en

Demography 57, 147-169 Abstract In this study, we provide demographic insight into the still relatively new family form of same-sex marriage. We focus on period trends in same-sex marriage formation and