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Tapani Valkonen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on areas within social sciences and health professions. The scientist's work specifically addresses topics such as retirement, disability, employment, welfare studies, and health disparities and outcomes.

They have contributed to research in several specialized subfields, including demography, general health professions, and broader health studies. The interdisciplinary nature of their work bridges social sciences and health-related disciplines.

Their documented publication record includes authorship of a paper titled The influence of old-age retirement on health: Causal evidence from the Finnish register data, published in 2020 in The Journal of the Economics of Ageing. This paper has been cited 25 times and represents a key output of their research activities.

  • The influence of old-age retirement on health: Causal evidence from the Finnish register data (2020, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing)

Frequent co-authors in Tapani Valkonen's research include Tero Kuusi and Pekka Martikainen. Collaboration with these colleagues has contributed to the development and dissemination of their research findings, highlighting the team-based nature of their scientific inquiries.

  • Tero Kuusi
  • Pekka Martikainen

Their publications have appeared primarily in The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, indicating a focus on economic aspects of aging and retirement as part of their academic output.

  • The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

Tapani Valkonen's research topics consistently cover:

  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes

This profile reflects a scientific career engaged in analyzing the intersections between social policies, demographic changes, and health outcomes, with a particular emphasis on aging populations and labor market transitions.

Best Publications

  • Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries

    Johan P Mackenbach;Vivian Bos;Otto Andersen;Mario Cardano

  • Educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in middle-aged and older men and women in eight western European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Matthias Bopp;Jens Kristian Borgan

  • Excess mortality of unemployed men and women during a period of rapidly increasing unemployment

    Pekka T Martikainen;Tapani Valkonen

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among elderly people in 11 European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • Mortality after the death of a spouse: rates and causes of death in a large Finnish cohort.

    Pekka Martikainen;Tapani Valkonen

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among women and among men: an international study.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Anton E. Kunst;Feikje Groenhof;Jens-Kristian Borgan

  • Mortality trends and setbacks: global convergence or divergence?

    Anthony J McMichael;Martin McKee;Vladimir Shkolnikov;Tapani Valkonen

  • Socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease mortality in 10 western European populations during the 1990s

    Mauricio Avendano;Anton E Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Frank V Lenthe

  • Inequalities in lung cancer mortality by the educational level in 10 European populations.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Martijn Huisman;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • Income differences in mortality: a register-based follow-up study of three million men and women

    Pekka Martikainen;Pia Mäkelä;Seppo Koskinen;Tapani Valkonen

  • Mortality after death of spouse in relation to duration of bereavement in Finland.

    Pekka Martikainen;Tapani Valkonen

  • Trends in life expectancy by income from 1988 to 2007: decomposition by age and cause of death

    Lasse Tarkiainen;Pekka Martikainen;Mikko Laaksonen;Tapani Valkonen

  • Contribution of deaths related to alcohol use to socioeconomic variation in mortality: register based follow up study

    Pia Mäkelä;Tapani Valkonen;Tuija Martelin

  • Occupational class and ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States and 11 European countries.

    A E Kunst;F Groenhof;O Andersen;J K Borgan

  • Changes in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality during an economic boom and recession among middle-aged men and women in Finland

    Tapani Valkonen;Pekka Martikainen;Marika Jalovaara;Seppo Koskinen

  • Problems in the measurement and international comparison of socio-economic differences in mortality

    Tapani Valkonen

  • Health and social inequities in Finland and elsewhere.

    Eero Lahelma;Tapani Valkonen

  • Increasing absolute mortality disparities by education in Finland, Norway and Sweden, 1971–2000

    Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Evgueni M Andreev;Dmitri A Jdanov;Domantas Jasilionis

  • Health expectancy by level of education in Finland

    Tapani Valkonen;Ari-Pekka Sihvonen;Eero Lahelma

  • The effects of regional characteristics on alcohol-related mortality-a register-based multilevel analysis of 1.1 million men.

    Jenni Blomgren;Pekka Martikainen;Pekka Martikainen;Pia Mäkelä;Tapani Valkonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Tuija Martelin
Tuija Martelin Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Giuseppe Costa
Giuseppe Costa University of Turin
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Martijn Huisman
Martijn Huisman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Carme Borrell
Carme Borrell Pompeu Fabra University
Eero Lahelma
Eero Lahelma University of Helsinki
Seeromanie Harding
Seeromanie Harding King's College London

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