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  1. Examination of self-harm clustering in adolescent peer networks: a nationwide registry cohort study in Finland

    Article • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, January 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  2. The role of health behaviours, genetic factors, and early life environment in the associations between family-related events and sustainable working life

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, December 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  3. Income–Well‐Being Gradient in Sickness and Health

    Article • Health Economics, November 2025, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  4. Four major psychiatric disorders in childhood and early adulthood and siblings’ subsequent socioeconomic status: a nationwide register study

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  5. Association of a child’s mental disorder with parental income and employment: analysis of nationwide register-based cohorts in Finland and Denmark

    Article • BMJ Mental Health, June 2025, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  6. The gendered effect of rehabilitative psychotherapy use on income: Quasi-experimental evidence from a Finnish population with work disability due to common mental disorders

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, May 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  7. Spillover effect of mental disorders in adolescent peer networks on likelihood of dropping out of secondary school

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  8. Impact of Retirement on Quality of Life: Role of Changes in Social Network Involvement

    Article • Research on Aging, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jason Settels, Professor Petri Böckerman

  9. Does high involvement management make you work longer? Insights from linked survey and register data

    Article • The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, March 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  10. A family affair? Long-term economic and mental health effects of spousal cancer

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  11. Associations of mental disorders in children with parents' subsequent mental disorders: nationwide cohort study from Finland and Denmark

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, January 2025, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  12. Tobacco Smoking in Early Adulthood and Labor Market Performance: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

    Article • Nicotine & Tobacco Research, January 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  13. Priced Out: Do Adolescents from Low-Income Families Respond More to Cost-Sharing in Primary Care?

    Article • The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, January 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  14. Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks

    Article • JAMA Psychiatry, September 2024, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  15. Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs

    Article • Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  16. Lost mind, lost job? Unequal effects of corporate downsizings on employees

    Article • German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  17. Effects of nurse visit copayment on primary care use: Do low-income households pay the price?

    Article • Journal of Health Economics, March 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  18. Effect of weight on depression using multiple genetic instruments

    Article • PLOS One, February 2024, PLOS

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  19. Nature’s Curriculum: Genes Linked to Educational Attainment and Adult Socioeconomic Status in a Nordic Welfare State

    Article • January 2024, Center for Open Science

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  20. Does Abolishing a Copayment Increase Doctor Visits? A Comparative Case Study

    Article • The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, December 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  21. Labour market trajectories after part-time sickness absence: a nationwide cohort study from Finland

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2023, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  22. Syövän vaikutukset puolison tuloihin ja työllisyyteen

    Article • Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti, September 2023, Sosiaalilaaketieteellisen aikakauslehti

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  23. The effects of COVID-19-era unemployment and business closures upon the physical and mental health of older Europeans: Mediation through financial circumstances and social activity

    Article • SSM - Population Health, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Jason Settels, Professor Petri Böckerman

  24. Dark Passage

    Article • American Journal of Health Economics, September 2023, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  25. Losing a job and (dis)incentives to move: Interregional migration in Finland

    Article • European Urban and Regional Studies, August 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  26. Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in sustainable working life—A Swedish twin cohort study

    Article • PLOS One, July 2023, PLOS

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  27. Early parental death and its association with children’s mental and economic well-being in adulthood: a nationwide population-based register study

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, July 2023, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  28. The contribution of morbidity and unemployment for the reduced labor market participation of individuals with neurofibromatosis 1 in Finland

    Article • European Journal of Human Genetics, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  29. Genetic basis of STEM occupational choice and regional economic performance: a UK biobank genome-wide association study

    Article • Human Genomics, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Qihui Chen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  30. Family-Related Life Events as Predictors of Labor Market Marginalization Trajectories

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, May 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  31. School achievement in adolescence and the risk of mental disorders in early adulthood: a Finnish nationwide register study

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  32. P-49 Understanding labour market participation trajectories after returning to part-time work from sickness absence: a nationwide cohort study from Finland

    Article • March 2023, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  33. Socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the later risk of a mental disorder: a nationwide population-based register study

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, February 2023, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  34. Effect of Information Intervention on Prescribing Practice for Neuropathic Pain in Older Patients: A Nationwide Register-Based Study

    Article • Drugs & Aging, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  35. Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing

    Article • Journal of Human Resources, December 2022, University of Wisconsin Press

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  36. Life events as predictors of unsustainable working life trajectories from a life course perspective

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, October 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  37. Sustainable Working Life Patterns in a Swedish Twin Cohort: Age-Related Sequences of Sickness Absence, Disability Pension, Unemployment, and Premature Death during Working Life

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  38. Did the Finnish depression of the early 1990s have a silver lining? The effect of unemployment on long-term physical activity

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, August 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  39. Does better education mitigate risky health behavior? A mendelian randomization study

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, August 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  40. Schizophrenia polygenic risk score and long-term success in the labour market: A cohort study

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, July 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  41. The rare disease neurofibromatosis 1 as a source of hereditary economic inequality: Evidence from Finland

    Article • Genetics in Medicine, April 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  42. Effects of rehabilitative psychotherapy on labour market success: Evaluation of a nationwide programme

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  43. Birth weight, adult weight, and cardiovascular biomarkers: Evidence from the Cardiovascular Young Finns Study

    Article • Preventive Medicine, January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  44. Early health, risk aversion and stock market participation

    Article • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, December 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  45. Prescription opioid use and employment: A nationwide Finnish register study

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Dependence, October 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Jari Vainiomäki, Professor Petri Böckerman

  46. Body weight and premature retirement: population-based evidence from Finland

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  47. Birth weight and adult income: An examination of mediation through adult height and body mass

    Article • Health Economics, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  48. School Tracking and Mental Health

    Article • Journal of Human Capital, June 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  49. Sustainable Working Life in a Swedish Twin Cohort—A Definition Paper with Sample Overview

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  50. High-involvement management practices and the productivity of firms: Detecting industry heterogeneity

    Article • Economic and Industrial Democracy, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  51. Employment and earnings trajectories before and after sickness absence due to major depressive disorder: a nationwide case–control study

    Article • Occupational and Environmental Medicine, October 2020, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  52. Personality, occupational sorting and routine work

    Article • Employee Relations The International Journal, June 2020, Emerald

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  53. Do childhood infections affect labour market outcomes in adulthood and, if so, how?

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  54. Determinants of prescription opioid use: population‐based evidence from Finland

    Article • Addiction, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  55. Education leads to a more physically active lifestyle: Evidence based on Mendelian randomization

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, March 2020, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  56. Back to school: Labor-market returns to higher vocational schooling

    Article • Labour Economics, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  57. Mental disorders and long‐term labour market outcomes: nationwide cohort study of 2 055 720 individuals

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, August 2019, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  58. Alternative measures of body composition and wage premium: New evidence from Indonesia

    Article • PLOS One, August 2019, PLOS

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  59. Health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market: Evidence using genetic risk scores and reduced-form models

    Article • SSM - Population Health, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  60. Does job design make workers happy?

    Article • Scottish Journal of Political Economy, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  61. Do good working conditions make you work longer? Analyzing retirement decisions using linked survey and register data

    Article • The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, February 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  62. Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform: The Finnish experience

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, January 2019, Wiley

    Young-Kyu Shin, Professor Petri Böckerman

  63. Does education protect against depression? Evidence from the Young Finns Study using Mendelian randomization

    Article • Preventive Medicine, October 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  64. Does ICT Usage Erode Routine Occupations at the Firm Level?

    Article • Labour, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Jari Vainiomäki, Professor Petri Böckerman

  65. The effect of weight on labor market outcomes: An application of genetic instrumental variables

    Article • Health Economics, September 2018, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  66. Harsh times: do stressors lead to labor market losses?

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  67. If you drink, don't smoke: Joint associations between risky health behaviors and labor market outcomes

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  68. Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages: Evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

    Article • Labour Economics, April 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  69. A kink that makes you sick: The effect of sick pay on absence

    Article • Journal of Applied Econometrics, March 2018, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  70. Unfit for work: Health and labour-market prospects

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  71. More skilled, better paid: labour-market returns to postsecondary vocational education

    Article • Oxford Economic Papers, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  72. Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass: Evidence from the UK and Finland

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  73. Born entrepreneurs? Adolescents’ personality characteristics and entrepreneurship in adulthood

    Article • Journal of Business Venturing Insights, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  74. Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes: The case of creatine

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  75. The biometric antecedents to happiness

    Article • PLOS One, September 2017, PLOS

    Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  76. Genetic endowments, parental resources and adult health: Evidence from the Young Finns Study

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  77. The challenges of GxE research: A rejoinder

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  78. Does higher education protect against obesity? Evidence using Mendelian randomization

    Article • Preventive Medicine, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  79. Stature and long-term labor market outcomes: Evidence using Mendelian randomization

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jari Vainiomäki, Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  80. Why are jobs with "bad" characteristics associated with low wages, rather than high wages?

    Article • Manchester School, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor Pekka Ilmakunnas, Professor Jari Vainiomäki, Professor Petri Böckerman

  81. Preventing Sickness Absence With Career Management Intervention

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, December 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  82. More educated, more mobile? Evidence from post-secondary education reform

    Article • Spatial Economic Analysis, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  83. Depressive symptoms and long-term income: The Young Finns Study

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Mirka Hintsanen, Professor Petri Böckerman

  84. Devil in disguise: Does drinking lead to a disability pension?

    Article • Preventive Medicine, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  85. Creatine and entrepreneurship

    Article • Journal of Bioeconomics, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  86. The Education-health Nexus: Fact and fiction

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  87. The serum copper/zinc ratio in childhood and educational attainment: a population-based study

    Article • Journal of Public Health, December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  88. The Role of Social Ties in Explaining Heterogeneity in the Association Between Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  89. Alcohol Consumption and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

    Article • Health Economics, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  90. Relative age at school entry, school performance and long-term labour market outcomes

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  91. High involvement management and employee well-being

    Article • IZA World of Labor, January 2015, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  92. Smoking and long-term labour market outcomes

    Article • Tobacco Control, February 2014, BMJ

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  93. Stature and life-time labor market outcomes: Accounting for unobserved differences

    Article • Labour Economics, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman, Professor Jari Vainiomäki

  94. Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

    Article • Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  95. The Negative Association of Obesity with Subjective Well-Being: Is it All About Health?

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  96. Does high involvement management improve worker wellbeing?

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  97. The effect of polytechnic reform on migration

    Article • Journal of Population Economics, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  98. Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  99. The Job Satisfaction-Productivity Nexus: A Study Using Matched Survey and Register Data

    Article • ILR Review, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  100. Who stays unwillingly in a job? A study based on a representative random sample of employees

    Article • Economic and Industrial Democracy, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  101. Institutionalisation and subjective wellbeing for old-age individuals: is life really miserable in care homes?

    Article • Ageing and Society, October 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  102. Innovative work practices and sickness absence: what does a nationally representative employee survey tell?

    Article • Industrial and Corporate Change, August 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  103. Job security and employee well-being: Evidence from matched survey and register data

    Article • Labour Economics, August 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  104. Globalization, creative destruction, and labour share change: evidence on the determinants and mechanisms from longitudinal plant-level data

    Article • Oxford Economic Papers, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  105. Do established health-related quality-of-life measures adequately capture the impact of chronic conditions on subjective well-being?

    Article • Health Policy, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  106. The return to the technological frontier: The conditional effect of R&D on plant productivity in Finnish manufacturing

    Article • Papers of the Regional Science Association, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  107. The relationship between physical work and the height premium: Finnish evidence

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, December 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  108. Predictors of Sickness Absence and Presenteeism: Does the Pattern Differ by a Respondentʼs Health?

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, March 2010, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  109. Labour market effects of the polytechnic education reform: The Finnish experience

    Article • Economics of Education Review, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  110. What makes you work while you are sick? Evidence from a survey of workers

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  111. Minimum Wages and Youth Employment: Evidence from the Finnish Retail Trade Sector

    Article • British Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  112. Economic inequality and population health: looking beyond aggregate indicators

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, April 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  113. Obesity and labour market success in Finland: The difference between having a high BMI and being fat

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  114. Unemployment and self-assessed health: evidence from panel data

    Article • Health Economics, February 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  115. Job Disamenities, Job Satisfaction, Quit Intentions, and Actual Separations: Putting the Pieces Together

    Article • Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  116. Alcohol consumption and sickness absence: evidence from microdata

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, October 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  117. Analysing the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  118. Interaction of working conditions, job satisfaction, and sickness absences: Evidence from a representative sample of employees

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  119. The physical strenuousness of work is slightly associated with an upward trend in the BMI

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  120. Who bears the burden of wage cuts? Evidence from Finland during the 1990s

    Article • International Journal of Manpower, May 2007, Emerald

    Professor Petri Böckerman, Professor Jari Vainiomäki

  121. The micro-level dynamics of regional productivity growth: The source of divergence in Finland

    Article • Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  122. Polytechnic graduate placement in Finnish manufacturing

    Article • Journal of Education and Work, February 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  123. Geography of Domestic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As): Evidence from Matched Firm-level Data

    Article • Regional Studies, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  124. Alcohol-related mortality, drinking behavior, and business cycles

    Article • The European Journal of Health Economics, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  125. Elusive Effects of Unemployment on Happiness

    Article • Social Indicators Research, August 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  126. Erosion of the Ghent System and Union Membership Decline: Lessons from Finland

    Article • British Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2006, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  127. Do job disamenities raise wages or ruin job satisfaction?

    Article • International Journal of Manpower, April 2006, Emerald

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  128. Does a slump really make you thinner? Finnish micro-level evidence 1978–2002

    Article • Health Economics, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  129. Does labour market reorganization reduce unemployment?

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, October 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  130. Regional Labor Market Dynamics, Housing, and Migration

    Article • Journal of Regional Science, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  131. Perception of Job Instability in Europe

    Article • Social Indicators Research, July 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  132. Sources of Job and Worker Flows: Evidence from a Panel of Regions

    Article • Labour, March 2004, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  133. Unravelling the Mystery of Regional Unemployment in Finland

    Article • Regional Studies, June 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  134. Determination of Average Working Time in Finland

    Article • Labour, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  135. Labour markets in Finland during the great twentieth centuty

    Article • Scandinavian Economic History Review, May 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Petri Böckerman

  136. Understanding Regional Productivity in a Nordic Welfare State: Does ICT Matter?

    Article • Studies in Regional Science, January 2002, Japan Section of the Regional Science Association International

    Professor Petri Böckerman