I am a historical demographer at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research, Umeå University, working on the study of demographic processes and social networks. In my PhD dissertation, I studied the role of social networks for the Swedish fertility transition, specifically that of voluntary associations and spatial communities.
Investigates how social structures, climate, and disability shape historical population patterns and well-being.
Sundvall, S. & Junkka, J. (2024). Better off in the city? Economic outcomes of rural out-migration in Sweden - sibling study of cohorts 1960–1984. Population, Space and Place, e2765. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2765
Junkka, J. & Hiltunen, M. (2024). Temperature- and seasonality-related infectious disease mortality among infants: A retrospective time-series study of Sweden, 1868-1892. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 22. https://doi.org/10.1553/p-33g4-pgab
Vikström, L., Junkka, J., & Karhina, K. (2023). Two centuries of disability disadvantages in Swedish partnerships. Disability & Society, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2160924
Eriksson, L., Junkka, J., Sandström, G., & Vikström, L. (2022). Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–59. History of Psychiatry, 33(2), 180–199. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X221084976
Vikström, L., Karhina, K. and Junkka, J. (2022). Two Centuries of Inequalities: Disability and Partnership in Sweden. In Nico, M, Pollock, G (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course. Routledge: New York. 10.4324/9780429470059-14
Karlsson, L., Junkka, J., Lundevaller, E. and Schumann, B. (2021). Ambient temperature and stillbirth risks in northern Sweden, 1880-1950. Environmental epidemiology. 5 (6). 10.1097/EE9.0000000000000176
Karlsson, L., Junkka, J., Schumann, B. and Lundevaller, E. (2021). Socioeconomic disparities in climate vulnerability: neonatal mortality in northern Sweden, 1880–1950. Population and Environment. 10.1007/s11111-021-00383-9
Junkka, J., Karlsson, L., Lundevaller, E., and Schumann, B. (2021). Climate vulnerability of Swedish newborns: Gender differences and time trends of temperature-related neonatal mortality, 1880–1950. Environmental Research. 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110400
Junkka, J., Sandström, G. and Vikström, L. (2020). The emergence of social gaps in mental health: A longitudinal population study in Sweden, 1900-1959. PLOS ONE. 15 (4). 10.1371/journal.pone.0232462
Junkka, J. (2019). Spatial diffusion of fertility decline in northern Sweden, 1850-1950. Annales de Démographie Historique. 138(2). 10.3917/adh.138.0083
Vikström, L., Häggström Lundevaller, E., Junkka, J. and Haage, H. (2019). Ett annorlunda liv? Följder av funktionsnedsättningar i 1800-talets Sverige. Funktionsnedsättning i arbetsliv och välfärd, Försäkringskassan, Analys och prognos. 2019:01, 15-30. https://www.forsakringskassan.se/wps/wcm/connect/fac0708f-cade-48e1-9a03-df7e59d0407a/socialforsakringsrapport-2019-1.pdf
Junkka, J. (2018) Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949. Historical Life Course Studies. 5, 3-36. 10.51964/hlcs9335.
Junkka, J. (2018). Shared practices. Social networks and fertility decline during the Swedish demographic transition, 1850-1950. Umeå: Umeå University. http://umu.diva-portal.org
Junkka, J. (2018). Voluntary associations and net fertility during the Swedish demographic transition. European Journal of Population. 34(5). doi: 10.1007/s10680-018-9465-5
Reproducable analysis github.com/junkka/voluntary-associations
Junkka, J. and Edvinsson, S. (2016). Gender and fertility within the free churches in the Sundsvall region, Sweden, 1860-1921. The History of the Family. 21(2). doi: 10.1080/1081602X.2015.1043929
Authors copy and reproducable analysis github.com/junkka/freechurchfertility
db2connect - Interface for DB2 databases, using the RJDBC package. Integrates with RStudio database connections pane.
ehahelper - Event history analysis helper package for R, including predict and tidying functions for coxme.
Tesseract OCR boxfile web editor - Web app for editing tesseract OCR box files, using the leaflet maping library and leaflet.draw.
Fertility transition research topic analysis - An interactive exploration of topics in fertility transition research from an LDA analysis of a large collection of scientific abstracts published 1964-2014.
histmaps - A R data package of Swedish historical administrative boundaries for parishes and counties 1634-1990.
swe-parish - Compilation of information on Swedish historical parishes.
Bygdeå - a small village in Västerbotten.
meankielensanakirja.com- a dictionary for the minority language Meänkieli.
hisco - A R package for classification of HISCO codes to Historical social class systems.
swe-mfrt - Visualization of marital fertility rates by county in Sweden.
Umeå University
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