Jessica
Nisén
University Research Fellow, INVEST Research Flagship Centre
Docent, Department of Social Research
D.Soc.Sc. Docent in Sociology (especially Demography)
Fertility and family formation; Family demography; Quantitative sociology; Life course, gender, and stratification; Comparative research
Areas of expertise
Fertility and family formation
Family demography
Quantitative sociology
Teaching
I am the responsible sociology teacher of the undergraduate course Disciplinary Approaches of Social Sciences.
Research
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the INVEST Flagship, University of Turku. I currently work on my research project Low fertility in Europe in the beginning of the 21st century: patterns, causes, and consequences, funded by the Academy of Finland. I am also an active member of the FLUX consortium funded by the Strategic Research Council, as well as a guest researcher at the University of Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Publications
Educational Differences in Cohort Fertility Across Sub-national Regions in Europe (2021)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))Less partnering, less children, or both? Analysis of the drivers of first-birth decline in Finland since 2010? (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Regional variation in women’s education-fertility nexus in Northern and Western Europe (2021)
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))Hedelmällisyys ja siihen vaikuttavat tekijät Suomessa lähivuosikymmeninä (2020)
Yhteiskuntapolitiikka
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))