2026
Singh, A., Rahut, D. B., Sonobe, T. & Skirbekk, V. F. (2026).
Family structure, orphanhood, and adolescent sexual debut and motherhood: Evidence from Africa and Asia. Journal of Population Research, 43(1), 1.
2025
Balachandran, A., Pei, H., Shi, Y., Beard, J. R., Caspi, A., Cohen, A. A., mfl. (2025).
Pace of aging analysis of healthspan and lifespan in older adults in the US and UK. Nature Aging, 1–11.
Mekonnen, T., Kristjansson, D., Bratsberg, B., Kohler, H. P., Selbæk, G., Larsen, F. K., mfl. (2025).
Changes in survival probabilities and mortality risks among population living with Down syndrome born 1967–2018: A Norwegian registry-based study. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 4272.
Mekonnen, T., Skirbekk, V., Zotcheva, E., Engdahl, B., Bratsberg, B., Jugessur, A., mfl. (2025).
Number of children and dementia risk: A causal mediation analysis using data from the HUNT study linked with national registries in Norway. BMC Neurology, 25(1), 39.
Compans, M. C., Beaujouan, E. & Skirbekk, V. (2025).
Time to birth for spontaneous and ART births among infertile groups. BMC Women’s Health, 25(1), 521.
Skodvin, S. N., Gjerdevik, M., Romanowska, J., Håberg, S. E., Havdahl, A., Lie, R. T., mfl. (2025).
Statistical methods to disentangle genetic effects influencing infertility and early fetal viability with a genome-wide application. PLoS Genetics, 21(12), e1011952.
Zotcheva, E., Strand, B. H., Skirbekk, V., Deckers, K., Krokstad, S., Livingston, G., mfl. (2025).
Sex differences in body mass index and waist circumference trajectories and dementia risk: The HUNT4 70+ study. GeroScience, 1–15.
Bratsberg, B., Harris, J. R., Skirbekk, V., Stern, Y., Håberg, A. K., Selbæk, G., mfl. (2025).
Occupational social interaction is associated with reduced dementia risk: The Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT). Psychology and Aging.
Blekesaune, M. & Skirbekk, V. (2025).
Frail parents and adult children’s life satisfaction: A longitudinal analysis of Norwegian data. European Journal of Ageing, 22(1), 49.
Skirbekk, V. F., Bratsberg, B., Page, C. M. & Kristjansson, D. (2025).
The overlooked legacy: Genetic contributions of the childless. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 28(3), 234–240.
Kravdal, Ø., Flatø, M. & Torvik, F. A. (2025).
Fertility among Norwegian women and men with mental disorders. European Journal of Population, 41(1), 17.
Skirbekk, V. & Spoorenberg, T. (2025).
Bringing mortality back into our understanding of fertility change: Revisiting the onset of fertility transitions using net reproduction measures. Journal of Population Research, 42(4), 45.
Skirbekk, V., Tamnes, C. K., Júlíusson, P. B., Jugessur, A. & von Soest, T. (2025).
Diverging trends in the age of social and biological transitions to adulthood. Advances in Life Course Research, 65, 100690.
Skirbekk, V., Blekesaune, M. & Sunde, H. F. (2025).
Personality and fertility dynamics in Norway across four decades: Findings from the HUNT survey. Personality and Individual Differences, 233, 112862.
Saarela, J., Skirbekk, V. & Hardy, M. (2025).
Partnership characteristics and childlessness in the Finnish cohorts born 1952–1966. Journal of Comparative Family Studies.
Spoorenberg, T. & Skirbekk, V. (2025).
A concentration of reproduction to later ages? A worldwide assessment of trends in fertility timing. Population and Development Review.
Working papers / Preprints
Navarro, J. & Skirbekk, V. (2025).
Declining fertility leading to long-term stability in demographic dependency ratios. ADBI Working Paper Series (No. 1501).
van Bergen, E., Sunde, H. F., Rowland, C. F. & Torvik, F. A. (2025).
Why educational inequality runs in families: Genetics matter more than environment. Preprint (OSF).
Streit, F., Awasthi, S., Hall, A. S., Braun, A., Niarchou, M., Marouli, E., mfl. (2025).
Genome-wide association study of borderline personality disorder identifies 11 loci and highlights shared risk with mental and somatic disorders. medRxiv (preprint).
doi: 10.1101/2024.11.12.24316957
2024
Spoorenberg, T., Carlsen, E. Ø., Flatø, M., Stonawski, M. & Skirbekk, V. (2024).
The global adolescent fertility decline is counteracted by increasing teen births in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies in Family Planning, 55(4).
Skirbekk, V., & Bowen, C. (2024). The low fertility fallacy – Why panic about birthrates is overblown. Foreign Affairs, 103(6).
2022
Skirbekk, V. (2022). Decline and prosper! Changing global birth rates and the advantages of fewer children. Palgrave Macmillan.
2021
Skirbekk, V., Langballe, E. M., & Strand, B. H. (2021). Preferred life expectancy and the association with hypothetical adverse life scenarios among Norwegians aged 60+. Age and Ageing, 50(6), 2012–2018.
2019
Skirbekk, V., Staudinger, U. M., & Cohen, J. E. (2019). How to measure population aging? The answer is less than obvious: A review. Gerontology, 65(2), 136–144.
2018
Patton, G., Olsson, C., Skirbekk, V., Saffery, R., Wlodek, M., Azzopardi, P., … Sawyer, S. M. (2018). Adolescence and the next generation. Nature, 554(7693), 458–466.
2017
Skirbekk, V., Ottersen, T., Sadik, N., Hannavid, H., & Dieleman, J. (2017). Vast majority of development assistance for health funds target those below age sixty. Health Affairs, 36(5), 926–930.
Bonsang, E., Skirbekk, V., & Staudinger, U. (2017). As you sow you shall reap: Gender-role attitudes and late-life cognition. Psychological Science, 28(9), 1201–1213.
2012
Skirbekk, V., Loichinger, E., & Weber, D. (2012). Variation in cognitive functioning as a refined approach to comparing aging across countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(3), 770–774.
2006
Lutz, W., Kritzinger, S., & Skirbekk, V. (2006). The demography of growing European identity. Science, 314(5798), 425.
2004
Skirbekk, V. (2004). Age and individual productivity: A literature survey. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2, 133–153.