Karina Nilsson

I am a Senior Researcher and Associated Professor in Sociology. My current research interest include social inequalities over the life course.

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

karina.nilsson@umu.se

+46 90 786 63 11

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Associate professor at Department of Sociology

Hus Y, Beteendevetarhuset & Norra beteendevetarhuset Mediagränd 14, Beteendevetarhuset, Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I study childhood characteristics, resources, health and educational achievements, as well as the meaning of family formation and characteristics for individual life courses.

I primarily work with Swedish register data in interdisciplinary collaborations. I am part of the Research data group at Umeå University, and also affiliated with Swedish National Data Service (SND) as a domain specialist for register data. I am also part of the steering group for Umeå SIMSAM lab.

My work has recently been published in Acta Sociologica, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, BMC Public Health and PLoS ONE.

Associations between academic achievement and internalizing disorders in Swedish students aged 16 years between 1990 and 2018

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Högberg, Björn; Strandh, Mattias; Petersen, Solveig; et al.

Associations between children’s diagnosed mental disorders and educational achievements in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Sage Publications 2022, Vol. 50, (8) : 1140-1147

Bortes, Cristian; Nilsson, Karina; Strandh, Mattias

Labor market trajectories of teenage mothers- and fathers: a sibling comparison study

CEDAR Working Papers, 2022:24

Kalucza, Sara; Nilsson, Karina; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna

Intergenerational persistence of family formation trajectories among teenage-mothers and -fathers in Sweden

Journal of Population Research, Springer 2021, Vol. 38 : 259-282

Kalucza, Sara; Vidal, Sergi; Nilsson, Karina

Parental Illness and Young People's Education

Child Indicators Research, Springer 2020, Vol. 13, (6) : 2069-2091

Bortes, Cristian; Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina

Sibling Ill-Health and Children's Educational Outcomes

Journal of School Health, John Wiley & Sons 2020, Vol. 90, (5) : 407-414

Bortes, Cristian; Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina

Not all the same: Swedish teenage mothers' and fathers' selection into disparate early family formation trajectories

Advances in Life Course Research, Elsevier 2020, Vol. 44

Kalucza, Sara; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Nilsson, Karina

Decomposition of income-related inequality in upper secondary school completion in Sweden by mental health, family conditions and contextual characteristics.

SSM - Population Health, Vol. 11

Vaezghasemi, Masoud; Mosquera, Paola; Gustafsson, Per E.; et al.

Is the effect of ill health on school achievement among Swedish adolescents gendered?

SSM - Population Health, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 8

Bortes, Cristian; Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina

Health problems during childhood and school achievement: Exploring associations between hospitalization exposures, gender, timing, and compulsory school grades

PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science 2018, Vol. 13, (12) : 1-14

Bortes, Cristian; Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina

Effect of childhood coeliac disease on ninth grade school performance: evidence from a population-based study

Archives of Disease in Childhood, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 2018, Vol. 103, (2) : 143-148

Namatovu, Fredinah; Strandh, Mattias; Ivarsson, Anneli; et al.

Mental-health and educational achievement: the link between poor mental-health and upper secondary school completion and grades

Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 26, (4) : 318-325

Brännlund, Annica; Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina

Childhood family structure and women's adult overweight risk: A longitudinal study

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 45, (5) : 511-519

Chaparro, M Pia; de Luna, Xavier; Häggström, Jenny; et al.

The relationship between work and family preferences and behaviors: a longitudinal study of gender differences in Sweden

Acta Sociologica, Vol. 60, (2) : 120-133

Nilsson, Karina; Hammarström, Anne; Strandh, Mattias

Data Resource Profile: Swedish Microdata Research from Childhood into Lifelong Health and Welfare (Umeå SIMSAM Lab)

International Journal of Epidemiology, Oxford University Press 2016, Vol. 45, (4) : 1075-1075g

Lindgren, Urban; Nilsson, Karina; de Luna, Xavier; et al.

Regional inequalities in overweight and obesity among first-time pregnant women in Sweden, 1992–2010

22nd European Congress on Obesity (ECO2015), Prague, Czech Republic, May 6-9, 2015: abstracts, S. Karger 2015 : 119-119

Chaparro, M Pia; Ivarsson, Anneli; Koupil, Ilona; et al.

Regional inequalities in pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity in Sweden, 1992, 2000, and 2010

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 43, (5) : 534-539

Chaparro, M. Pia; Ivarsson, Anneli; Koupil, Ilona; et al.

Social inequality in BMI change and gestational weight gain in the first and second pregnancy among women in Sweden

Acta Paediatrica, Vol. 104 : 3-4

Holowko, N.; Chaparro, M. P.; Nilsson, Karina; et al.

Social inequality in pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain in the first and second pregnancy among women in Sweden

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Vol. 69, (12) : 1154-1161

Holowko, Natalie; Chaparro, M Pia; Nilsson, Karina; et al.

Mental health and parenthood: a longitudinal study of the relationship between self-reported mental health and parenthood

Health Sociology Review, Taylor & Francis 2015, Vol. 24, (3) : 283-296

Kalucza, Sara; Hammarström, Anne; Nilsson, Karina

Do open youth unemployment and youth programs leave the same mental health scars?: Evidence from a Swedish 27-year cohort study

BMC Public Health, Vol. 15

Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina; Nordlund, Madelene; et al.

Unemployment and mental health scarring during the life course

European Journal of Public Health, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014, Vol. 24, (3) : 440-445

Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina; Winefield, Anthony; et al.

Unemployment, gender and mental health: the role of the gender regime

Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 35, (5) : 649-665

Strandh, Mattias; Hammarström, Anne; Nilsson, Karina; et al.

Ger arbetslösheten ärr? – Arbetslöshet och mental hälsa över livsbanan

Tiden, Stockholm: 2013, (2/3) : 46-49

Strandh, Mattias; Nilsson, Karina

The importance of stressful events during childhood on adult labour market outcome

6th International Conference on Population Geographies, Umeå, June 14-17, 2011

Borrie, Mats; Olsson Skog, Frida; Nilsson, Karina; et al.

SIMSAM-nätverket i Umeå strävar mot att bli ett framstående center för registerforskning som knyter samman barndomen med livslång hälsa och välfärd

SVEPET - Medlemstidning för Svensk Epidemiologisk Förening (SVEP), Göteborg: Svensk epidemiologisk förening 2011, Vol. 29, (3) : 8-9

Holmström, Anna; Oudin, Anna; de Luna, Xavier; et al.

Registerdata om barndomen: kunskapsbas för hållbar hälsa och välfärd

SVEPET. Medlemsbladet för Svensk Epidemiologisk Förening (Svep), Malmö: Svensk Epidemiologisk Förening (Svep) 2010, Vol. 28, (3) : 4-6

Ivarsson, Anneli; de Luna, Xavier; Nilsson, Karina; et al.

Parenthood and welfare outcomes in late-twentieth-century Sweden

The History of the Family, Elsevier 2010, Vol. 15, (2) : 206-214

Nilsson, Karina

The feeling of tiredness among Swedish parents: a longitudinal cohort comparison

International Journal of Social Welfare, Wiley and copyright by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2010, Vol. 19, (4) : 424-432

Nilsson, Karina

Housework and Family Formation: Exploring the Relationship Between Gender Division of Housework and Having Children

The Open Demography Journal, Bentham 2010, Vol. 3 : 1-10

Nilsson, Karina

Skilsmässor och separationer: betydelsen av rollspecialisering och jämställdhet

Sociologisk forskning, Sveriges sociologförbund 2009, Vol. 46, (3) : 19-36

Nilsson, Karina; Strandh, Mattias

Skilsmässor och separationer: Betydelsen av rollspecialisering och jämställdhet

Sociologisk forskning, Uppsala: Sveriges sociologförbund 2009, Vol. 46, (3) : 19-36

Nilsson, Karina; Strandh, Mattias

The feeling of tiredness among Swedish parents

The practice of birth control and historical fertility change

Nilsson, Karina

Jämställdhet, barnafödande och separationer

Jämställdhetens pris, Boréa bokförlag, Umeå 2008 : 83-109

Nilsson, Karina

New gender roles – new explanations for separation?: From specialisation and trading to role balance?

Journal of Societal and Social Policy, Vol. 7, (3) : 107-117

Nilsson, Karina; Strandh, Mattias

Vi kan inte bortse från jämställdhetens baksida

Dagens Nyheter 2008

Nordenmark, Mikael; Grönlund, Anne; Halleröd, Björn; et al.

Work in Swedish households: the role of education

Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Canberra: Adult Learning Australia 2004, Vol. 44, (2) : ?-

Nilsson, Karina; Strandh, Mattias

Nest leaving in Sweden: the importance of early educational and labour market careers

Journal of Marriage and Family, Minneapolis: National council on family relations 1999, Vol. 61, (4) : 1068-1079

Nilsson, Karina; Strandh, Mattias

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Research groups

Affiliated with the group

Family Sociology

Research projects

1 January 2019 until 31 December 2021

Life course consequences of teenage parenthood

1 February 2016 until 31 December 2019

Adolescent mental health in relation to macroeconomic factors: protective and risk factors

1 March 2015 until 28 February 2017

The impact of the number of siblings on child health

1 July 2007 until 30 June 2012

Welfare and Work in an Ageing Society

8 June 2007 until 31 December 2008

Family formation and childbirth in Sweden