Martin Kolk
Curriculum Vitae
Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden
[email protected]
people.su.se/~mkolk/
Date of birth: January 21th, 1986
Citizenship: Swedish
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2014-12-09
EDUCATION
Feb 2010-Oct 2014
PhD in Demography, Stockholm University, Sweden www.suda.su.se
Thesis title: Multigenerational processes in demography. Advisors: Gunnar Andersson and
Juho Härkönen. Opponent: Michael Murphy (LSE)
Oct 2013-Dec 2013
Internship at United Nations Headquarter, Population Division, Fertility and Family
Planning Section, New York, NY, USA
Aug 2011-May 2012
Visiting scholar at Department of Demography, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Aug 2009 -Feb 2010
Chinese language program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)
www.ntu.edu.tw
Aug 2007-Jun 2009
Master in Demography, Stockholm University, Sweden, www.suda.su.se
Including an exchange at University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Aug 2008-Dec 2008.
Aug 2005-Jun 2007
B.Soc.Sci in Economic History, Stockholm University, Sweden, www.su.se
Including 1½ years of studies in Engineering Physics in Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm
CURRENT POSITION
Oct 2014-
Researcher, Demography Unit at the Department of Sociology, Sweden., Stockholm
University, Sweden www.suda.su.se
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed articles
Kolk, Martin (2015) “The causal effect of an additional sibling on completed fertility – An estimation of intergenerational fertility
correlations by looking at siblings of twins” Demographic Research , accepted for publication
Kieron J. Barclay and Martin Kolk (2015) “Birth Order and Mortality: A Population Based Cohort Study” Demography,
10.1007/s13524-015-0377-2
Kolk, Martin (2015) “Age Differences in Unions: Continuity and Divergence in Sweden between 1932 and 2007” European Journal
of Population, 10.1007/s10680-015-9339-z
Kolk, Martin, Daniel Cownden and Magnus Enquist (2014) “Correlations in fertility across generations – can low fertility persist”
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281(1779): 20132561
Kolk, Martin (2014) “Understanding transmission of fertility across multiple generations – Socialization or socioeconomics?”
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 35:89-103
Kolk, Martin (2014) “Multigenerational transmission of family size in contemporary Sweden”. Population Studies, 68(1): 111-129
Kolk, Martin and Sebastian Schnettler (2013) “Parental status and gender preferences for children: Is differential fertility stopping
consistent with the Trivers-Willard hypothesis?” Journal of Biosocial Science, 45(5): 683-704.
Andersson, Gunnar and Martin Kolk (2011) ”Trends in childbearing and nuptiality in Sweden: An update with data up to 2007”
Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 46:21-27.
Kolk, Martin (2011) “Deliberate Birth Spacing in 19th Century Northern Sweden” European Journal of Population, 27(3): 337-359.
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Martin Kolk
Curriculum Vitae
Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden
[email protected]
people.su.se/~mkolk/
Date of birth: January 21th, 1986
Citizenship: Swedish
+46 (0) 8 16 17 22 (office)
+ 46 (0) 76 239 79 46 (cell)
2014-12-09
Working papers
Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Kieron J. Barclay and Martin Kolk (2015) ”The Effect of the Number of Siblings on
Adult Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Registers” Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2015:2.
Kieron J. Barclay and Martin Kolk (2015) “Parity and Mortality: Evidence from Biological and Adoptive Parents” Stockholm
Research Reports in Demography 2015:1.
Kolk, Martin (2014) “A Life Course Analysis of Geographical Distance to Siblings, Parents and Grandparents in Sweden” Stockholm
Research Reports in Demography 2014:13.
Chudnovskaya, Margarita, & Kolk, Martin (2014) “Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Proximity in Sweden: Developments
in Geographical Distance between Young Adults and Their Parents, 1980-2007” Stockholm Research Reports in Demography
2014:12.
Doctoral thesis
Kolk, Martin (2014) Multigenerational processes in demography. Stockholm University: Stockholm.
Other publications
Kolk, Martin (2014) ”Ålderskillnader mellan föräldrar i Sverige [Age differences between parents in Sweden]” Välfärd, 2013:3
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Kinship and intergenerational demography, historical demography, age differences within couples, early life effects on demographic
outcomes, and cultural evolution and demography (www.intercult.su.se)
CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Stepfamily Prevalence in Northern Sweden, 1750-2007” together with Jani Turunen
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IUSSP seminar on Separation, Divorce, Repartnering and Remarriage around the World, Montreal, Canada, May
2015
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , San Diego, CA, USA, April, 2015
SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, April 2015
“Period and Cohort Measures of Migration”
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Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , San Diego, CA, USA, April, 2015
SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, March 2015
Internal Migration and Commuting in International Perspective Symposium, Wiesbaden, Germany, February 2015
“Intergenerational and intragenerational correlations in family size across time – Northern Sweden, 1750-2007” together with
Johan Dahlberg
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Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , San Diego, CA, USA, April, 2015
Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden, March 2015
Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography, Alghero, Italy, September 2014
“The Causal Effect of Another Sibling on Own Fertility – an Estimation of Intergenerational Fertility Correlations by Looking at
Siblings of Twins”
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Martin Kolk
Curriculum Vitae
Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden
[email protected]
people.su.se/~mkolk/
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Date of birth: January 21th, 1986
Citizenship: Swedish
+46 (0) 8 16 17 22 (office)
+ 46 (0) 76 239 79 46 (cell)
2014-12-09
XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 2014
European Population Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2014
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , Boston, MA, USA, April, 2014
“The Effect of Number of Siblings on Mortality Risk: Evidence from Swedish Register Data” together with Anna BaranowskaRataj, and Kieron Barclay
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Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , San Diego, CA, USA, April, 2015
IUSSP seminar Early-life Determinants of Late-life Employment, Ill Health and Early Death, Lund, Sweden,
October 2014
European Population Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2014
“Dizygotic Twinning and Fecundity – Is There an Association between a Family History of Twinning and Birth Intervals in
Contemporary Sweden?” together with Kieron Barclay, Annual Conference for the Population Association of America ,
Boston, MA, USA, April, 2014
“Parity and Mortality amongst Biological and Adoptive Parents in Contemporary Sweden” together with Kieron Barclay,
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , Boston, MA, USA, April, 2014
“Intergenerational Transmission of Age at First Birth in Age-Heterogeneous Couples” together with Sven Drefahl,
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SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, November 2014
European Population Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 2014
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , Boston, MA, USA, April, 2014
“Global age-patterns in married and cohabiting unions”, Population Division, United Nations Headquarter, New York, USA,
November 2013
“Analytical Sociology and Cultural Evolution”, together with Magnus Enquist, 6th International Network of Analytical
Sociologists Conference, Sweden, May 2013
“Correlations in family size across generations – can low fertility persist” together with Daniel Cownden and Magnus Enquist
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SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, September 2013
Department of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, May 2013
“A Life Course Perspective on Geographical Distance to Siblings, Parents and Grandparents in Sweden”
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Population Dynamics and Public Policy workshop, Evian, France, May 2014
18th Aage Sorensen Memorial Conference, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, April 2014
Department of Sociology, Oslo University, Norway, March 2014
XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013
SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, May 2013
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America , New Orleans, LA, USA, April, 2013
ISA Research Committee 06 Conference, ‘Demographic and Institutional Change in Global Families’, Academica
Sinicia, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), March 2013
“Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Proximity in Sweden: Developments in Geographical Distance between Young
Adults and Their Parents, 1980-2007”, together with Margarita Chudnovskaya,
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XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013
ISA Research Committee 06 Conference, ‘Demographic and Institutional Change in Global Families’, Academica
Sinicia, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), March 2013
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Martin Kolk
Curriculum Vitae
Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden
[email protected]
people.su.se/~mkolk/
Date of birth: January 21th, 1986
Citizenship: Swedish
+46 (0) 8 16 17 22 (office)
+ 46 (0) 76 239 79 46 (cell)
2014-12-09
“Birth Order and Mortality: A Population Based Cohort Study”, together with Kieron Barclay
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XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, USA, April, 2013
SUDA Colloquium series” Stockholm University, Sweden, February 2013
“Understanding intergenerational transmission of fertility in a multigenerational context – Socialization of fertility preferences
or transmission of socioeconomic traits?
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Inequality across Multiple Generations Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, September 2012
Inequality and the Life Course, ECSR & EQUALSOC Summer School, University of Trento, Italy, September 2012
European Population Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2012
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America (Awarded “Best Poster”), San Francisco, CA, USA,
May, 2012
“Socioeconomic status and sex ratios at birth in contemporary Sweden. No evidence for a Trivers Willard effect using
longitudinal register data across a wide range of status indicators.”
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XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, August 2013
Consilience Conference, St Louis, MO, USA, April 2012
“Age Differences between Couples in Sweden over Time: Continuity, Divergence, and Globalization”
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26th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 2012, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 2012
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, USA, May, 2012
Department of Demography, UC Berkeley, California, CA, USA, April 2012
4th Next Generation Global Workshop, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, November 2011
“The Trivers-Willard effect of parental status on sex composition of children: What role for fertility stopping behavior?”
together with Sebastian Schnettler, 25th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 2011, Oslo, Norway, August 2011
”Intergenerational continuities in fertility - Multigenerational transmission of fertility in contemporary Sweden”
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25th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association 2011, Oslo, Norway, August 2011
Workshop on the Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, June
2011
Mölle-PhD Student Conference in Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden, May 2011
Inter-Ivy and Sorensen Memorial Sociology Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 2011
Annual Conference for the Population Association of America, Washington DC, USA, April, 2011
SUDA Colloquium series, Stockholm University, Sweden, March 2011
National SIMSAM meeting, Lund University, Sweden, March 2011
Demographic Database seminar series, Umeå University, Sweden, December 2010
“Kinship and intergenerational transmission”, Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Sweden,
November 2010
“Multi-generational patterns in Swedish fertility - Linking 4 generations using the multi-generation register”, SUNDEM
Workshop on Register-based Demographic Research, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2010
“Birth control in Sweden before the Fertility Transition” 14th Annual Harvard-Oxford-Stockholm, Aage Sorensen Memorial
Conference, Oxford (Nuffield College), UK, April 2010
“Deliberate birth spacing before the fertility transition in France and Germany” together with Sara Moreels at the 36th Annual
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Martin Kolk
Curriculum Vitae
Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden
[email protected]
people.su.se/~mkolk/
Date of birth: January 21th, 1986
Citizenship: Swedish
+46 (0) 8 16 17 22 (office)
+ 46 (0) 76 239 79 46 (cell)
2014-12-09
Conference of the Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, USA,November 2009
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES AND TEACHING
Interviews and quotations by international media and newspapers such as the Economist, and the Huffington Post, as well as
Swedish media such as Forskning och Framsteg.
Peer reviewed articles for: European Journal of Population*, Population Studies*, Social Science and Medicine, Social Science
Research, Journal of Family Issues, European Societies, Journal of Marriage and Family. *repeated occasions
Advisor for Kathrin Morosow, PhD Student in Sociological Demography, Stockholm University , 2014-present
Advisor for Markus Läll, master thesis in Demography “Fertility transition in 19th-20th century Estonia: An individual level
perspective” , Stockholm University , 2014
Advisor for undergraduate theses in Demography and Sociology at Stockholm University (152 hours), 2012-present
Member of the appointing committee for full professors at the social science faculty, Stockholm University, 2013-2014
Main organizer of the Sociology Department‟s, SOFI‟s, SoRAD‟s and ChESS‟s „Working Paper Seminar Series for PhD
Students‟, Stockholm University 2013-2014
Member of the national organizing team for the European Population Conference in Stockholm June 2012
Member of the sociology department PhD student council, Stockholm University, 2013-2014
PEDAGOGICAL COURSES, GRADUATE SCHOOLS, ADVANCED LEVEL COURSES, AND WORKSHOPS
University pedagogical course, “Professional Development Course on Teaching and Learning 1 (UL1)”, 7.5 hp, Stockholm
University, 2014
University pedagogical course, “Supervision of Student Theses”, 4.5 hp, Stockholm University, 2014
IDEM 156: “Spatial Demography Concepts, Spatial Statistics, GIS and Cartographic Techniques”, Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany, January 2015
Participant in the “Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy”, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, April
2011-October 2014
“Spatial Mobility over the Life Course and its Links to Family Life - LIVES Winter School”, les Diablerets, Switzerland,
March 2014
ICPSR “Summer Program in Quantitative Methods”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA, July 2013-August 2013
“Competing risks and multi-state models”, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2012
“Inequality and the Life Course”, ECSR-EQUALSOC-summer school, Trento, Italy, September 2012
Participant in the “Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School in Register-based Research (SINGS)”, various Swedish
universities, assortment of courses. March 2010-September 2012
IMPRSD 189: “Introduction to Evolutionary Demography”, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR),
Rostock, Germany, July 2011
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Martin Kolk
Curriculum Vitae
Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden
[email protected]
people.su.se/~mkolk/
Date of birth: January 21th, 1986
Citizenship: Swedish
+46 (0) 8 16 17 22 (office)
+ 46 (0) 76 239 79 46 (cell)
2014-12-09
IMPRSD 116: “Microsimulation using SocSim”, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock,
Germany, June 2010
IMPRSD 172: “Historical Demography”, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, August 2009
ICPSR “Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data Workshop”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA,
July 2009-August 2009
GRANTS AND SCOLARSHIPS
Received support from (9 SEK ≈ 1 EUR):
Major grants:
“Swedish families in the past and present: Family structure and kinship over 250 years” Swedish Research Council for
Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 3 030 000 SEK for 2014-2017 (co-applicant together with Gunnar Andersson
and Jani Turunen)
Minor grants:
“Cultural Evolutionary Demography”, Planning grant for cross-faculty research projects, co-applicant together with Magnus
Enquist, Daniel Cownden, Stefano Ghirlanda , & Arne Jarrick, Stockholm University (74 240 SEK)
STINT: The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, (125 000 SEK)
Sweden-America Foundation, (40 000 SEK)
Swedish International Development Agency‟s scholarship for internships at international organizations, (25 000 SEK)
Swedish Interdisciplinary Graduate School in Register-based Research (SINGS), (10 000 SEK)
Graduate School in Population Dynamics and Public Policy, (6 000+12 000+6 000+14 000 SEK)
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs foundation, (20 000 SEK)
Rhodin, Elizabeth & Herman foundation, (9 000 SEK)
Lydia och Emil Kinanders foundation, (10 000 +20 000 SEK)
the Taiwanese Ministry of Education’s Huayu Enrichment Scholarship - 教育部華語文獎學金, (6 months: tuition+living
expenses)
FAS/FORTE-Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap, (7 200+10 800+8 900 SEK)
NordForsk - Register-Based Life Course Studies: Sociological, Demographic, and Economic Perspectives (6 000+4 000
SEK)
(US) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, (1 350 USD)
Furthermore, an assortment of other grants and awards to cover travel costs, course attendance and conference fees
LANGUAGE & COMPUTER SKILLS
Languages: English (fluent), Swedish (native), Mandarin (intermediate), German (basic)
Skills in data management and statistics: Very experienced using STATA and SQL, knowledge of SAS, R and micro
simulations (SocSim). Skills in survival analysis, management of individual longitudinal data, relational databases and
national population registers. Experience programming in Java and C++.
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