Recent publications of our researchers

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Veroszta, Zsuzsanna – Spéder, Zsolt – Kopcsó, Krisztina (2026): Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood: Evidence from Hungary. Demographic Research, 54, Article 1, 1–36. 

Veroszta, Zsuzsanna - Boros, Julianna - Horváth, Ágoston (2025). Perinatal Smoking Cessation and the Role of Antenatal Care. Substance Use & Misuse, 1–10. 

Pohárnok, M. – Lábadi, B. –  Regőczi-Balogh, E. – Kopcsó, Krisztina (2025): Psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the ages and stages questionnaires: Social–emotional-2 for 18-month-old children. Infant Mental Health Journal, 1–19.

Dávid Erát, Dávid – Spéder, Zsolt (2025): Contrasting destinations? Emerging intention trajectories of latent family size. Advances in Life Course Research, 65, 100693.

Nisén, J. – Klüsener, S. – Dahlberg, J. – Dommermuth, L.– Jasilioniene, A. – Kreyenfeld, M. – Lappegård, T. – Li, P. – Martikainen, P. – Neels, K. – Riederer, B. – te Riele, S. – Sulak, H. – Szabó, Laura – Trimarchi, A. – Viciana, F. – Myrskylä, M. (2025): Economic Conditions, Education and Parity-Specific Fertility: A Sub-National Regional Study Across 15 Countries in Europe. Population, Space and Place, 31, e70074.

Őri, Péter – Pakot, Levente (2025): Fertility and mortality responses to short-term economic stress: Evidence from two Hungarian sample populations, 1819-1914. Explorations in Economic History, 97, 101671.

Udvari, Orsolya – Szalma, Ivett (2025): Socio-demographic factors, informal payments and satisfaction with childbirth in the Hungarian context. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth, 25, 409.

Őri Péter (2024): Parental loss in 18th-19th century Hungary: the impact of parents’ widowhood and remarriage on their children’s survival, Zsámbék, 1720-1850. In Warner, Lyndan – Erdélyi, Gabriella (eds.): Stepfamilies across Europe and Overseas, 1550-1900. Routledge, London, 43–69.

Girasek, Edmond – Döbrössy, Bence – Boros, Julianna – Győrffy, Zsuzsa (2024): Exploring the attitudes and experiences of Hungarian primary care physicians on the utilisation of digital health solutions. BMC Primary Care 25, 396.

Spéder, Zsolt – Bálint, Lajos (2024): Realization of Short-Term Fertility Intentions in a Comparative Perspective: Which Macro-Level Conditions Matter? Population Research and Policy Review, 43, 72.

Szabó, Laura – Veroszta, Zsuzsanna (2024): Discrimination against Roma women during childbirth? Unraveling the underlying effects of ethnic and socio-economic factors. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 24, e101013.

Doblhammer, Gabriele – Spéder, Zsolt (2024): Editorial on the Special Issue "Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries". Comparative Population Studies, 49, May 2024.

Makay, Zsuzsanna (2023): Paid Parental Leave Reforms and Mothers’ Employment in Austria, France and Hungary. Comparative Population Studies, 48, (August 2023).

Spéder, Zsolt (2023): A Quarter Century of Change in Family and Gender-Role Attitudes in Hungary. Comparative Population Studies, 48.

Melegh, Attila – Csányi, Zoltán (2023): Migration anxieties in Eastern Europe. Material grounds for an anti-migrant turn in a global-historical perspective? Journal of Contemporary Central and Easter Europe.

Kollányi, Zsófia – Bálint, Lajos – Susovits, Kitti – Csépe, Péter – Kovács, Katalin (2023): Inequalities in Diabetes Mortality Between Microregions in Hungary. International Journal of Public Health, 68.

Vanhuysse, Pieter – Medgyesi, Márton – Gál, Róbert Iván: Taxing reproduction: The full transfer cost of rearing children in Europe. Royal Society Open Science, 10, 230759.

Szabó, Laura – Boros, Julianna (2023): Socio-economic differences among low-birthweight infants in Hungary. Results of the Cohort ‘18 – Growing Up in Hungary birth cohort study. PLoS ONE, 18(9), e0291117.

Makay, Zsuzsanna (2023): Paid Parental Leave Reforms and Mothers’ Employment in Austria, France and Hungary. Comparative Population Studies, 48.

Monostori, Judit – Szabó, Laura – Kopcsó, Krisztina (2023): The Impact of Family Complexity on the Risk of Developmental Delay and Socio-Emotional Difficulties in Early Childhood. Societies, 3(8), 192.

Veroszta, Zsuzsanna – Ökrös, Fruzsina – Kopcsó, Krisztina (2023): Impact of labour market reintegration on breastfeeding among mothers of 6-month-olds. Breastfeeding Review, 31(1), 7–19.

Vargha, Lili – Donehower, Gretchen – Binder-Hammer, Bernhard (2023): Time Transfers by Age and Gender in 28 Countries. Socius, 9.

Melegh, Attila (2023): The Migration Turn and Eastern Europe: A Global Historical Sociological Analysis. Palgrave MacMillan, pp 423.

Vanhuysse, Pieter – Gál, Róbert Iván (2023): Intergenerational Resource Transfers in the Context of the Welfare State. In Daly, Mary–Pfau-Effinger, Birgit–Gilbert, Neil–Besharov, Douglas J. (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy over the Life Course. Oxford University Press, 1015-1033.

Őri, Péter (2023): Orphans and stepchildren: the impact of parental loss and parental remarriage on children’s first marriages in Zsámbék in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Erdélyi, Gabriella–Szabó, András Péter (eds.): Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600–1900. Routledge, London – New York, 142–168.

Monostori, Judit (2023): Three‐Generation Households in a Central and Eastern European Country: The Case of Hungary. Social Inclusion,11(1) (online first).

Pohárnok, Melinda – Kopcsó, Krisztina – Polgár, Petra, Ibolya (2022): The structure and correlates of the 20-item Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale in a population-based sample of Hungarian expectant women. Midwifery, 112, 103422.

Szołtysek, Mikołaj – Beltrán Tapia, Francisco J – Ogórek, Bartosz – Gruber, Siegfried (2022): Family patriarchy and child sex ratios in historical Europe. The History of the Family.

Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, Members of the NTA Network (2022): Six Ways Population Change Will Affect the Global Economy. Population and Development Review, 48(1) 51-73. (Róbert Iván Gál is a member of the NTA Network).

Őri, Péter (2021): Parental loss in 18–19th century Hungary: the impact of the parents’ widowhood and remarriage on their children’s survival, Zsámbék, 1720–1850, The History of the Family, DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2021.2000472

Szołtysek, Mikołaj –– Ogórek, Bartosz – Gruber, Siegfried – Beltrán Tapia, Francisco J. (2022): Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data. Historical Methods, DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2021.2014377

Ogórek, Bartosz – Szołtysek, Mikołaj (2022): ‘Missing girls’ in interwar Poland: child sex ratios and their correlates across multiple borderlands. The History of the Family. DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2022.2055611

Szołtysek, Mikołaj – Ogórek, Bartosz – Gruber, Siegfried (2020): Global and local correlations of Hajnal’s household formation markers in historical Europe: A cautionary tale. Population Studies,75(1), 67–89.

Vanhuysse P, Medgyesi M, Gál RI (2021): Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines: Decomposing the roles of age and socio-economic status shows that European tax-and-benefit systems primarily redistribute across age groups. PLOS ONE 16(8): e0255760.

Szabó, L., Kiss, I., Sprocha, B., Spéder, Zs. (2021): Fertility of Roma Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. Comparative Population Studies Vol. 46: 387-424.

Gödri, I. – Csányi, Z. (2020): Immigration from the Former Soviet Union to Hungary: Economic mobility rooted in historical links and ethnic ties. In M. Denisenko, S. Strozza, M. Light (Eds.): Migration from the Newly Independent States. 25 Years After the Collapse of the USSR, Springer, 483–509 (ISBN: 978-3-030-36075-7)

Hammer, B., Spitzer, S., Vargha, L., Istenič, T. (2020): The gender dimension of intergenerational transfers in Europe. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing. Volume 15, Article no. 100234

Jeffrey Swindle, Shawn Dorius & Attila Melegh (2019) The mental map of national hierarchy in Europe, International Journal of Sociology, DOI: 10.1080/00207659.2019.1705051

Zsolt Spéder, Lívia Murinkó & Livia Sz. Oláh (2019) Cash support vs. tax incentives: The differential impact of policy interventions on third births in contemporary Hungary. Population Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2019.1694165

Seme, A., Vargha, L., Istenič, T. and Sambt, J. (2019): The patterns of non-monetary transfers in Europe: A historical NTTA analysis by age and gender. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. Vol. 17: 121-140.

Sánchez-Romero, M., Abío, G., Botey, M., Prskawetz, A., Sambt, J., Solé Juvés, M., Souto, G., Vargha, and L., Patxot, C. (2019): Welfare state winners and losers in ageing societies. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. Vol. 17: 9-36.

Mackenbach Johan P, Valverde José Rubio, Bopp Matthias, Brønnum-Hansen Henrik, Deboosere Patrick, Kalediene Ramune, Kovács Katalin, Leinsalu Mall, Martikainen Pekka, Menvielle Gwenn: Determinants of inequalities in life expectancy: an international comparative study of eight risk factors Lancet Public Health 4 : 10 pp. 529-537. , 9 p. (2019)

Melegh, Attila (2019): 20th Century Demographic Change in Global History Writing. In Matthias Middel (ed.) The Practice of Global History: European Perspectives Bloomsbury, London.

Gál, Róbert I. and Radó, Márta (2019): Labour Market Participation and Postponed Retirement in Central and Eastern Europe in Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes Vol. 1. ch. 16.

Istenic, Tanja, Vargha, Lili, Sambt Joze (2019): Is there a connection between welfare regimes and inter-age reallocation systems? Journal of the Economics of Ageing. Volume 14.

Joubert Kálmán et al. (2019): Height SDS Changes (ΔhSDS) in Healthy Children from Birth to 18 Years, with Correction Factors for Measurement Intervals of Less than One Year, Pediatric Endocrinolology Reviews 16(4):457-467.

Őri Péter (2019): Entering the reproductive phase of life: first marriages in Zsámbék, Hungary (1720–1945). In Glavatskaya, Elena – Thorvaldsen, Gunnar – Fertig, Georg – Szołtysek, Mikolaj (eds.): Nominative data in demographic research in the East and the West. Ural University Press, Ekaterinburg, 97–120.

Vargha, Lili - Donehower, Gretchen (2019): The Quantity‐Quality Tradeoff: A Cross‐Country Comparison of Market and Nonmarket Investments per Child in Relation to Fertility. Population and Development Review. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12245. (Early View)

Murinkó, Lívia (2019): Housing consequences of divorce and separation in a 'super home ownership' regime: The case of Hungary. Demographic Research, vol.40/34., pp.975-1014.

Spéder, Zsolt: Demographic trends: fertility, mortality, ageing. In: Tóth, István György (ed.): Hungarian Social Report 2019. TÁRKI, Budapest, 13-31.

Harcsa, István - Monostori, Judit (2019): Correlations between household structure and level of education. In: Tóth, István György (ed.): Hungarian Social Report 2019. TÁRKI, Budapest, 32-45.

Melegh, Attila - Gábriel, Dóra - Gresits, Gabriella - Hámos, Dalma(2018): Abandoned Hungarian workers and the political economy of care work in Austria. Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association 28(4), pp.61-88.

Kopcsó, Krisztina – Láng, András (2018): Uncontrolled Thoughts in the Dark? Effects of Lighting Conditions and Fear of the Dark on Thinking Processes. Imagination, Cognition and Personality. DOI:10.1177/0276236618816035

Kopcsó, Krisztina – Láng, András (2017): Regulated divergence: Textual patterns, creativity and cognitive emotion regulation. Creativity Research Journal, 29(2), 218-223.

Melegh, Attila - Papp Z., Attila (2018): Historical Links and Integration of Migrants from Neighbouring Countries in Hungary. In: Aimie Bouju - Andreas Edel (eds.): Similar but Different Inclusion and Exclusion of Immigrant Communities Sharing Similar Cultural Backgrounds with Their Host Societies. Population Europe Discussion Paper No. 8., pp.47-53.

Hammer, B. - Istenic, T. - Vargha, Lili (2018): The Broken Generational Contract in Europe: Generous transfers to the elderly population, low investments in children. Intergenerational Justice Review 12(1), pp.21-31.

Mackenbach, J. P. - Valverde, J. R. - Artnik, B. - Bopp, M. - Brønnum-Hansen, H. - Deboosere, P. - Kalediene, R. - Kovács, Katalin et al. (2018): Trends in health inequalities in 27 European countries. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1800028115.

Németh, László - Missov, Trifon I. (2018): Adequate life-expectancy reconstruction for adult human mortality data. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198485. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198485

Lorant, Vincent - de Gelder, Rianne - Kapadia, Dharmi - Borrell, Carme - Kalediene, Ramune - Kovács, Katalin  et al. (2018): Socioeconomic inequalities in suicide in Europe: the widening gap. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 212(6), pp.356-361.

Gál, Róbert Iván - Vanhuysse, Pieter - Vargha, Lili (2018): Pro-elderly welfare states within child-oriented societies. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(6), 944-958. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2017.1401112

Gál, Róbert Iván - Monostori, Judit (2017): A taxonomy of indicators of economic sustainability and intergenerational fairness. Intergenerational Justice Review 11(2), pp.77-86.

Gál, Róbert Iván - Törzsök, Árpád (2017): The savings gap in Hungary. Journal of the Economics of Ageing, doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2017.05.002

Attila Melegh (2017): Historical Demography. In: D. Mishkova and B. Trencsényi (eds.): European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History. Berghan Books, New York. pp.300-321.

Mackenbach, Johan P.  - Bopp, Matthias - Deboosere, Patrick - Kovacs, Katalin - Leinsalue, Mall  - Martikainen, Pekka - Menvielle, Gwenn - Regidor, Enrique - de Gelder, Rianne (2017) : Determinants of the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: A study of 17 European countries. Health & Place 47, p. 44-53.

Makay, Zsuzsanna (2017): Parental Leave and Career Interruption of Mothers in France and Hungary. Régnier-Loilier, Arnaud (Ed.): A Longitudinal Approach To Family Trajectories In France. The Generations and Gender Survey. Paris, INED/Springer, p.173-197.

Lippényi, Zoltán - van Leeuwen, Marco H. D. - Maas, Ineke - Őri, Péter (2017): Social status homogamy in a religiously diverse society. Modernization, religious diversity, and status homogamy in Hungary between 1870-1950. The History of the Family,  DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2017.1319399

Mackenbach, Johan P. - Looman, Caspar W.N.- Artnik, Barbara - Bopp, Matthias - Deboosere, Patrick - Dibben, Chris - Kaledine, Ramune - Kovács, Katalin et al. (2017): ‘Fundamental causes’ of inequalities in mortality: an empirical test of the theory in 20 European populations. Sociology of Health and Illness, DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12562, Early View

Gregoraci, G.- van Lenthe, F. J.-Artnik, B. - Bopp, M.-Deboosere, P. - Kovács, K. et al. (2017): Contribution of smoking to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: a study of 14 European countries, 1990–2004. Tobacco Control, 2017(26), 260-268. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052766

Vargha, L. - Gál, R.I. - Crosby-Nagy, M. (2017): Household production and consumption over the life cycle: National Time Transfer Accounts in 14 European countries. Demographic Research, 36(32), pp.905-944.

Törő, Klára -  Vörös, Krisztina -  Mészner, Zsófia - Váradi-T., Aletta, Adrienn Tóth and Katalin Kovács (2016): Evidence for Infection and Inflammation in Infant Deaths in a Country with Historically Low Incidences of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In Blackwell, Caroline - Cox, Amanda - Lumbers, Eugenie Ruth (eds.): Infection and inflammation: potential triggers of sudden infant deaths. Frontiers Media, Lausanne. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-049-7 pp.15-20.

Melegh, A. - Kiss, T. - Csanova, S. - Philipov, D. - Thornton, A. - Young-DeMarco, L. (2016): The perception of global hierarchies: South Eastern European patterns in comparative perspectives. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2(4).

Colchero, F. - Rau, R. - Jones O. R.  Barthold, J. A. - Conde, D. A. - Lenart, A. - Németh, L. - Scheuerlein, A. - Schoeley, J. - Torres, C. - Zarulli, V. - Altmann, J. - Brockman, D. K. - Bronikowski, A. M. - Fedigan, L. M. - Pusey, A. E. - Stoinski, T. S. - Strier, K. B. - Baudisch, A. - Alberts, S. C. - Vaupel, J. W. (2016): The emergence of longevous populations. PNAS, 113(48), E7681-E7690, doi:10.1073/pnas.1612191113

de Gelder, R. - Menvielle, G. - Costa, G. - Kovács, K. - Martikainen, P. - Strand, B. H. - Mackenbach, J. P. (2016): Long-term trends of inequalities in mortality in 6 European countries. Int J Public Health. doi:10.1007/s00038-016-0922-9

Melegh, A. (2016): Unequal Exchanges and the Radicalization of Demographic Nationalism in Hungary. Intersections, 2(4).

Blaskó, Zs. - Szabó, L. (2016): Migrants with left-behind children in Hungary. In: Zsuzsa Blaskó - Károly Fazekas (Eds.): The Hungarian Labour Market 2016. Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, 2016.

Colchero, F. - Rau, R. - Jones O. R.  Barthold, J. A. - Conde, D. A. - Lenart, A. - Németh, L. - Scheuerlein, A. - Schoeley, J. - Torres, C. - Zarulli, V. - Altmann, J. -Brockman, D. K. - Bronikowski, A. M. - Fedigan, L. M. - Pusey, A. E. - Stoinski, T. S. - Strier, K. B. - Baudisch, A. - Alberts, S. C. - Vaupel, J. W. (2016): The emergence of longevous populations. PNAS, 113(48), E7681-E7690, doi:10.1073/pnas.1612191113

de Gelder, R. - Menvielle, G. - Costa, G. - Kovács, K. - Martikainen, P. - Strand, B. H. - Mackenbach, J. P. (2016): Long-term trends of inequalities in mortality in 6 European countries. Int J Public Health. doi:10.1007/s00038-016-0922-9

Spéder, Zsolt - Bartus, Tamás (2016): Educational enrolment, double-status positions and the transition to motherhood in Hungary. European Journal of Population. DOI: 10.1007/s10680-016-9394-0

Murinkó, Lívia - Szalma, Ivett (2016): Fatherhood and men’s second union formation: Norway, France and Hungary, 1980s–2000s. In: Mortelmans, Dimitri - Matthijs, Koenraad - Alofs, Elisabeth - Segaert, Barbara, eds., Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution: The Family Kaleidoscope. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp.179-213.

Spéder, Zs. (2016): Fertility decline and the persistence of low fertility in a changing policy environment-a Hungarian case study. In: Rindfuss, R. Choe, M, eds., Low Fertility Institutions, and their Policies. Springer, p.165-194.

Gregoraci, G.- van Lenthe, F. J.-Artnik, B. - Bopp, M.-Deboosere, P. - Kovács, K. et al. (2016): Contribution of smoking to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: a study of 14 European countries, 1990–2004. Tobacco Control, Aviable online 27 April 2016, doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052766

Makay, Zsuzsanna (2016): Congé parental et interruption de l’activité professionnelle des mères en France et en Hongrie. Régnier-Loilier, Arnaud (Ed.): Parcours de familles. L'ênquête des relations familiales et intergénérationnelles. Paris, Éditions INED, p. 333-357.

Murinkó, Lívia - Szalma, Ivett (2016): Men’s Fertility in Second Unions in Three European Countries: The Effect of Parenthood Status. Finnish Yearbook of Population Research. Väestöliitto, Helsinki.

Missov, I. Trifon - Németh, László (2015): Sensitivity of model-based human mortality measures to exclusion of the Makeham or the frailty parameter. Genus, 71(2-3).

Missov, I. Trifon - Németh, László - Daňko, J. Maciej (2016): How much can we trust life tables? Sensitivity of mortality measures to right-censoring treatment. Palgrave Communication. Doi:10.1057/palcomms.2015.49

Mackenbach, Johan P. – Kulhánová, Ivana – Bopp, Matthias – Borrell, Carme – Deboosere, Patrick – Kovács, Katalin et al. (2015): Inequalities in Alcohol-Related Mortality in 17 European Countries: A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality Registers. PLoS Medicine12(12): e1001909.

Törő, Klára - Vörös, Krisztina - Mészner, Zsófia - Váradi-T, Aletta - Tóth, Adrienn - Kovács, Katalin (2015): Evidence for infection and inflammantion in infant Deaths in a country with historically low incidence of sudden infant death syndrome. Frontiers in Immunology. 2015(6):389. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2015.00389.

Mackenbach, Johan P – Kulhánová, Ivana –  Menvielle, Gwenn – Bopp, Matthias – Borrell, Carme – Costa, Giuseppe –  Deboosere, Patrick –  Esnaola, Santiago – Kalediene, Ramune –  Kovács, Katalin –  Leinsalu, Mall – Martikainen, Pekka – Regidor, Enrique – Rodriguez-Sanz, Maica –  Strand, Bjørn Heine –  Hoffmann, Rasmus – Eikemo, Terje A – Östergren, Olof –  Lundberg, Olle (2015): Trends in inequalities in premature mortality: a study of 3.2 million deaths in 13 European countries. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2015(69), 207–217.

Rihmer, Zoltán – Hal, Melinda – Kapitány, Balázs – Gonda, Xénia – Vargha, Márta – Döme, Péter (2015): Preliminary investigation of the possible association between arsenic levels in drinking water and suicide mortality. Journal of Affective Disorders. Available online 28 April 2015.

Berkő, Péter – Joubert, Kálmán – Gárdos, Éva – Gyenis, Gyula (2014): Effects of bodily development and nutritional status at birth on physical and mental development measured at age 18. Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics,2(6), 116-122.

Heinz Fassmann, Elisabeth Musil, Ramon Bauer, Attila Melegh, Kathrin Gruber (2014): Longer-Term Demographic Dynamics in South–East Europe: Convergent, Divergent and Delayed Development. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, Vol.3(2), 150-172.

Spéder, Zsolt – Kapitány, Balázs (2014): Influences on the Link Between Fertility Intentions and Behavioural Outcomes. In Philipov, Dimiter - Liefbroer, Aart C. - Klobas, Jane E. (eds): Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective. Springer, 79-112.

Gál, Róbert Iván – Szabó, Endre – Vargha, Lili (2014): The age-profile of invisible transfers: The true size of asymmetry in inter-age reallocations. Journal of the Economics of Ageing.

Lee, Ronald –  Mason, Andrew – members of the NTA Network (2014): Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption. Science 346/6206, 229-234.

Hoffmann, Rasmus –Borsboom, Gerard – Saez, Marc – Mari Dell’Olmo, Marc –Burström, Bo – Corman, Diana – Costa, Claudia – Deboosere, Patric – Domínguez-Berjón, M Felicitas – Dzúrová, Dagmar – Gandarillas, Ana – Gotsens, Mercè – Kovács, Katalin –Mackenbach, Johan – Martikainen, Pekka – Maynou, Laia – Morrison, Joana – Palència, Laia – Pérez, Gloria – Pikhart, Hynek – Rodríguez-Sanz, Maica – Santana, Paula – Saurina, Carme – Tarkiainen, Lasse – Borrell, Carme (2014): Social differences in avoidable mortality between small areas of 15 European cities: an ecological study. International Journal of Health Geographics, 13(8), doi:10.1186/1476-072X-13-8.

Mackenbach, Johan P – Kulhánová, Ivana – Gwenn Menvielle – Matthias Bopp, Matthias –  Carme Borrell, Carme – Giuseppe Costa, Giuseppe – Deboosere, Patrick –  Esnaola, Santiago – Ramune Kalediene, Ramune – Kovacs, Katalin – Mall Leinsalu, Mall –Martikainen, Pekka – Enrique Regidor, Enrique – Rodriguez-Sanz, Maica – Heine Strand, Bjørn –Hoffmann, Rasmus – Eikemo, Terje A –  Östergren, Olof – Olle Lundberg, Olle (2014): Trends in inequalities in premature mortality: a study of 3.2 million deaths in 13 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, doi:10.1136/jech-2014-204319.

Kovács, Katalin (2014): Social Disparities in the Evolution of an Epidemiological Profile: Transition Processes in Mortality Between 1971 and 2008 in an Industrialized Middle Income Country: The Case of Hungary. In Anson, Jon – Luy, Marc (eds.): Mortality in an International Perspective. European Studies of Population, Vol. 18., Springer. 79-117.

Borrell, Carme – Marí-Dell’olmo, Marc – Palència, Laia – Gotsens, Mercè – Burström, Bo – Domínguez-Berjón, Felicitas – Rodríguez-Sanz, Maica – Dzúrová, Dagmar – Gandarillas, Ana – Hoffmann, Rasmus – Kovács, Katalin – Marinacci, Chiara – Martikainen, Pekka – Pikhart, Hynek – Corman, Diana – Rosicova, Katarina – Saez, Marc –  Santana, Paula – Tarkiainen, Lasse – Puigpinós, Rosa – Morrison, Joana –  Pasarín, M Isabel – Díez, Èlia (2014): Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in 16 European cities. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 42(3), 245-254.

Spéder, Zsolt - Kapitány, Balázs (2014): Failure to Realize Fertility Intentions: A Key Aspect of the Post-communist Fertility Transition. Population Research and Policy Review, January 2014, doi: 10.1007/s11113-013-9313-6.

Gotsens, Mercè - Kovács, Katalin (2013): Socioeconomic inequalities in injury mortality in small areas of 15 European cities. Health & Place, Volume 24, November 2013, 165–172.

Berkő, Péter - Joubert, Kálmán - Gárdos, Éva - Gyenis, Gyula (2013): The MDN system Aids in the identification of neonates with a high probability of needing growth hormone therapy. Journal of Clinical Research Letters, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2013.

Spéder, Zsolt - Murinkó, Lívia - Settersten, Richard A. (2013): Age conceptions of Adulthood Universal and Unisex? Ages and Social Markers in 25 European Countries. Social Forces, doi: 10.1093/sf/sot100.

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