Overview
Gunnar Andersson is a Swedish demographer at Stockholm University's Department of Sociology (Demography Unit), formerly at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock). His research uses Scandinavian administrative population register data to study fertility, family dynamics, and demographic behavior with exceptional coverage and precision. He is known for work on Swedish and Nordic fertility trends, multi-partner fertility, union dissolution, same-sex families, and the interplay of institutional context and reproductive behavior.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-authored Billari et al. (2006), providing Swedish vital statistics expertise and contributing to the century-long (1900–2001) occurrence-exposure rate analysis of late fertility trends.
- Extensive work on Swedish fertility dynamics: the 1980s–1990s recovery from lowest-low levels, the "speed premium" in Swedish parental leave policy on birth spacing, and Nordic exceptionalism in fertility-employment compatibility.
- Research on union stability, divorce, and multi-partner fertility in Scandinavia using complete population register linkage.
- Comparative demographic work on same-sex partnerships and parenthood in Nordic countries using register data.
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