Results and publications
Analyses of the data collection are ongoing and results of our research will be published in scientific journals as well as in books and more easily accessible reports and texts.
Journal articles
Elden, Helen, Petrus Olander, Elin Naurin & Lucy Zheng. 2026. Pelvic Girdle Pain at 36 Weeks of Pregnancy and Two Years Postpartum: Associations With Biopsychosocial Factors. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare 48, 101228.
Wängnerud, Lena, Elin Naurin, Dirk Hovy, Lorenzo Lupo & Oscar Magnusson. 2026. Male Agency? Analyzing Fatherhood Roles in Swedish Parliamentary Documents, 1993–2021. Politics & Gender, First View, 1–30. doi:10.1017/S1743923X26100580.
Naurin, Elin, Elias Markstedt, Monica C. Schneider, Mary-Kate Lizotte & Dietlind Stolle. 2025. The Effects of Parental Leave on Attitudes Toward the State. Politics & Gender 21(4): 824–846.
Olander, Petrus, Lisa Berglin, Elin Naurin, Elias Markstedt, Lucy Zheng, Karolina Lindén m.fl. 2024. The Impact of Exclusion Due to COVID-19 Restrictions on Partners' Satisfaction With Swedish Hospital Postnatal Ward Care: A Multi-Methods Approach. Birth 51(3): 612–619.
Zheng, Lucy, Elin Naurin, Elias Markstedt, Petrus Olander, Helen Elden & Karolina Lindén. 2023. A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood. Sex Roles 88(5): 210–224.
Naurin, Elin, Dietlind Stolle & Elias Markstedt. 2023. The Effect of Pregnancy on Engagement with Politics. Toward a Model of the Political Consequences of the Earliest Stages of Parenthood. American Political Science Review, 117(1): 311-317.
Zheng, Lucy, Elin Naurin, Elias Markstedt, Petrus Olander, Karolina Lindén, Verena Sengpiel, Dietlind Stolle, Helen Elden. 2022. Expectant Parents' Emotions Evoked by Pregnancy: A Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis of Couples in the Swedish Pregnancy Panel. Social Science & Medicine, 312, 115362.
Matilda Wådell, Anne K. Örtqvist, Karolina Lindén, Magnus Åkerstrom, Ola Andersson, Ylva Carlsson, Sofie Graner, Maria Jonsson, Elin Naurin, Verena Sengpiel, Malin Veje, Anna Wessberg & Mehreen Zaigham (2022). Challenges Imposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program: A Mixed-Methods Swedish survey in the COPE Staff Cohort Study. BMC Medical Education 22, 602 (2022).
Naurin, Elin, Elias Markstedt, Dietlind Stolle, Daniel Enström, Anton Wallin, Ingrid Andreasson, Birgitta Attebo, Ottilia Eriksson, Klara Martinsson, Helen Elden, Karolina Lindén & Verena Sengpiel 2021. Pregnant Under the Pressure of a Pandemic: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Survey Before and During the COVID-19 Outbreak. European Journal of Public Health 31(1): 7–13.
Elin Naurin, Elias Markstedt, Dietlind Stolle, Helen Elden, Verena Sengpiel, Karolina Linden. 2021. Does Transition to Parenthood Affect Gender Traits? The Effect of Pregnancy on Perceived Female and Male Traits. European Journal of Politics and Gender 4(1): 135–150.
Yosef Bhatti, Kasper M. Hansen, Elin Naurin, Dietlind Stolle & Hanna Wass (2019). Can You Deliver a Baby and Vote? The Effect of the First Stages of Parenthood on Voter Turnout, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 29:1, 61–81, Received price for honorable mention for best article 2019.
Dissertations
Markstedt, Elias. 2024. Pregnancy and Politics: On the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge, Attitudes, and Participation. Dissertation. University of Gothenburg.
Book chapters and reports
Markstedt, Elias, Patrik Öhberg, Marcus Weissenbilder & Ulrika Andersson. 2026. Varför blir det så få barn? Barnafödande och familjebildning i Sverige. I Anders Carlander, Amanda Ramsälv, Björn Rönnerstrand & Patrik Öhberg (Red.), Mot en tid som flytt, 373–385. SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs universitet.
Naurin, Elin och Patrik Öhberg (2021). Politiska uppfattningar bland kvinnor och män som har barn i hushållet. I Ulrika Andersson, Anders Carlander, Marie Grusell & Patrik Öhberg (red) Ingen anledning till oro (?). 401–414, SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs universitet.
Markstedt, Elias, Naurin, Elin & Wallin, Anton (2021). Vilka politiska förslag tycker mammor och pappor är viktigast? I Ulrika Andersson, Anders Carlander, Marie Grusell & Patrik Öhberg (red) Ingen anledning till oro (?). 429–444. SOM-institutet vid Göteborgs universitet.
Elias Markstedt, Elin Naurin, Anton Wallin, Helen Elden, Karolina Linden & Verena Sengpiel (2020). Hur upplever gravida och deras partners coronapandemin? SOM-undersökningen om coronaviruset 2020.