Vegard Fykse Skirbekk
Principal Investigator
Department: Centre for Fertility and Health
Responsibilities
Vegard Skirbekk is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and a Professor at Columbia University. He had the idea to form the Centre for Fertility and Health incorporating social and biological aspects of childbearing and their health consequences for both adults and children. This project, where he is Prinicipal Investigator, received 10-year funding and was in 2017 established at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Skirbekk has widespread experience in fertility research, including in determinants of childbearing, intergenerational risk transmissions, and changes in household composition. Some of his research emphasize how new factors can increasingly explain fertility behaviours, including personality factors. Professor Vegard Skirbekk's research on has focused on fertility, ageing, productivity and culture. Skirbekk has published in academic journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (includ
Background
Biography
Vegard Skirbekk is a population economist and social scientist specialising in demographic analysis and cohort studies. He holds a professorial position at the Population and Family Health at Colombia Aging Centre at Columbia University, USA. Skirbekk received his PhD from Rostock University, Germany and has also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. He has two decades of international experience and has held professorships and scientific leadership positions in Austria and Germany. He has received research grants from ERC, PEW and UNESCO. Skirbekk’s main research focus is on health, productivity, and associated determinants from a multidisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on the role of changing labor market demands, technological and cultural changes as well as variation in the attitudes, beliefs, and competences of new cohorts. He has published widely on comparative health and cultural studies for countries from all world regions. Skirbekk has worked extensively on causality, global comparative assessments and projections.
Projects and publications
- Betydningen av foreldres alder for barnets utvikling og mentale helse.
- DIMJOB - Social, demographic and health dimensions of technology-induced job loss
- Funksjonsfriske leveår blant eldre i Norge
- Health Gap: Health, maturity, and gender gap in education
- Lonely years of life in Norway
- Long term outcomes of alcohol use and use disorders: a prospective twin study
- Longitudinal analyses of functional ageing (LONGFUNC)
- Longitudinelle analyser av aldring og funksjonsnivå
- Lost in Transition? Uncovering Social and Health Consequences of Sub-Optimal Transitions in the Education System
- Norsk sykdomsbyrdeprosjekt: Risikofaktorprosjekt
- Reproduction, partner disruption and health
- Social Factors and Health: a Twin Study
- Sosial ulikhet i Norge og barns psykiske utvikling
- Sergey Orlov, Elena Rovenskaya, Matthew Cantele, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, (2021). Modeling Social Status and Fertility Decisions Under Differential Mortality. s. 1-25. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-54576-5_5
- Vegard Skirbekk, Alex de Sherbinin, Susana B. Adamo, Jose Navarro, Tricia Chai-Onn, (2020). Religious Affiliation and Environmental Challenges in the 21st Century. Journal of Religion and Demography (JRD) s. 238-271. doi: 10.1163/2589742X-12347110
- Rupert RA Bourne, Jaimie D Steinmetz, Seth Flaxman, Paul Svitil Briant, Hugh R Taylor, Serge Resnikoff, Robert James Casson, Amir Abdoli, Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Ashkan Afshin, Hamid Ahmadieh, Yonas Akalu, Alehegn Aderaw Alamneh, Wondu Alemayehu, Ahmed Samir Alfaar, Vahid Alipour, Etsay Woldu Anbesu, Sofia Androudi, Jalal Arabloo, Aries Arditi, Malke Asaad, Eleni Bagli, Atif Amin Baig, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Maurizio Battaglia Parodi, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Nikha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Krittika Bhattacharyya, Ali Bijani, Mukharram Bikbov, Michele Bottone, Tasanee Braithwaite, Alain M. Bron, Zahid A. Butt, Ching-Yu Cheng, Dinh-Toi Chu, Maria Vittoria Cicinelli, João M Coelho, Baye Dagnew, Xiaochen Dai, Reza Dana, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Sezer Kisa, Adnan Kisa, Vegard Skirbekk, Sheila K West, Jost B. Jonas, Theo Vos, (2020). Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Global Health s. e130-e143. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30425-3
- Bernt Bratsberg, Ole Jørgen Røgeberg, Vegard Skirbekk, (2020). Fathers of children conceived using ART have higher cognitive ability scores than fathers of naturally conceived children. Human Reproduction s. 1461-1468. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deaa119
- Martin Kolk, Vegard Skirbekk, (2019). Fading family lines -Women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th, and 21stcentury Northern Sweden. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography
- Everton E. C. Lima, José H. C. Monteiro da Silva, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2019). Cohort Fertility Trends and Religion Affiliation in Latin America: a Glimpse Through Time. Journal of Religion and Demography (JRD) s. 252-281. doi: 10.1163/2589742X-00602004
- Nicholas Graetz, Lauren Woyczynski, Katherine F. Wilson, Jason B. Hall, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Foad Abd-Allah, Oladimeji M. Adebayo, Victor Adekanmbi, Mahdi Afshari, Olufemi Ajumobi, Tomi Akinyemiju, Fares Alahdab, Ziyad Al-Aly, Jacqueline Elizabeth Alcalde Rabanal, Mehran Alijanzadeh, Vahid Alipour, Khalid Altirkawi, Mohammadreza Amiresmaili, Nahla Hamed Anber, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Mina Anjomshoa, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Jalal Arabloo, Olatunde Aremu, Krishna K. Aryal, Mehran Asadi-Aliabadi, Suleman Atique, Marcel Ausloos, Ashish Awasthi, Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintani, Samad Azari, Alaa Badawi, Joseph Adel Mattar Banoub, Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo, Anthony H Barnett, Neeraj Bedi, Derrick A. Bennett, Natalia V. Bhattacharjee, Krittika Bhattacharyya, Suraj Bhattarai, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Ali Bijani, Boris Bikbov, Gabrielle Britton, Roy Burstein, Zahid A. Butt, Adnan Kisa, Simon Nygaard Øverland, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, (2019). Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries. Nature s. 235-238. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1872-1
- Ann Kristin Knudsen, Peter Allebeck, Mette Christophersen Tollånes, Jens Christoffer Skogen, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, John J. McGrath, Knud Juel, Emilie Elisabet Agardh, Johan Ärnlöv, Tone Bjørge, Juan J. Carrero, Christopher R. Cederroth, Anne Elise Eggen, Ziad El-Khatib, Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Mika Gissler, Kishor Hadkhale, Rasmus Havmoeller, Lars Johansson, Petur Benedikt Juliusson, Aliasghar A. Kiadaliri, Sezer Kisa, Adnan Kisa, Tea Lallukka, Teferi Mekonnen Yitayew, Tuomo J. Meretoja, Atte Meretoja, Mohsen Naghavi, Subas Neupane, Truc Trung Nguyen, Max Petzold, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Rahman Shiri, Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Søren T. Skou, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Timothy J. Steiner, Gerhard Sulo, Thomas Clement Truelsen, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Elisabete Weiderpass, Stein Emil Vollset, Theo Vos, Simon Nygaard Øverland, (2019). Life expectancy and disease burden in the Nordic countries: results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. The Lancet Public Health s. e658-e669. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30224-5
- Catherine E. Bowen, Solveig Tobie Glestad Christiansen, Anastasia Emelyanova, Elena Golubeva, Marcin Jan Stonawski, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2019). Living Too Long or Dying Too Soon? Exploring How Long Young Adult University Students in Four Countries Want to Live. Journal of Adult Development doi: 10.1007/s10804-019-09335-y
- Melissa Hardy, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski, (2019). The Religiously Unaffiliated in Germany, 1949–2013: Contrasting Patterns of Social Change in East and West. The Sociological Quarterly (SQ) doi: 10.1080/00380253.2019.1593064
- Jan Saarela, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2019). Childlessness and union histories: Evidence from Finnish population register data. Journal of Biosocial Science s. 1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0021932019000257
- Jonas Minet Kinge, Jørgen Heibø Modalsli, Simon Nygaard Øverland, Håkon K. Gjessing, Mette Christophersen Tollånes, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Bjørn Heine Strand, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Stein Emil Vollset, (2019). Association of Household Income with Life Expectancy and Cause-Specific Mortality in Norway, 2005-2015. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) s. 1916-1925. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.4329
- Peter S. Azzopardi, Stephen J. C. Hearps, Kate L. Francis, Elissa C. Kennedy, Ali H. Mokdad, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Stephen Lim, Caleb Mackay Salpeter Irvine, Theo Vos, Alex Brown, Surabhi Dogra, Stuart A. Kinner, Natasha S. Kaoma, Mariam Naguib, Nicola J. Reavley, Jennifer Requejo, John S. Santelli, Susan M. Sawyer, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Marleen Temmerman, Jordan Tewhaiti-Smith, Joseph L. Ward, Russell M. Viner, George C. Patton, (2019). Progress in adolescent health and wellbeing: tracking 12 headline indicators for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016. The Lancet s. 1101-1118. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32427-9
- Angela Y. Chang, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Joseph L. Dieleman, (2019). Measuring population ageing: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet Public Health s. E159-E167. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30019-2
- Bo Lars Engdahl, Mariann Idstad, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2019). Hearing loss, family status and mortality – Findings from the HUNT study, Norway. Social Science and Medicine s. 219-225. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.022
- Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Lars Jacob Stovner, Tone Bjørge, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Simon Nygaard Øverland, Elisabete Weiderpass, Anne Elise Eggen, Aung Soe Htet, Adnan Kisa, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Gerhard Sulo, Timothy J. Steiner, Christopher J L Murray, H C Williams, Archie Bleyer, J Nansseu, P B Michell, Anglia Ruskin, O J Brady, S M Langam, N Pearce, M McKee, D Prabhakaran, J J Choi, H Christensen, D J Christopher, S Chung, H Haghparast Bidgoli, M R Mathur, Daniel Collado-Mateo, P R Olivares, P A Cortesi, E Cousin, BB Duncan, M H Criqui, TR Driscoll, S. Islam, James Leigh, J. A. Crump, D T Hibstu, A F Dadi, P I Dargan, R Das Gupta, H De Steur, N Dervenis, D C Des Jarlais, S D Dharmaratne, J.R Ehrlich, D F Santomauro, M Leili, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, (2018). Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.. The Lancet s. 1859-1922. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32335-3
- Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Ursula M. Staudinger, Joel E. Cohen, (2018). How to measure population aging? The answer is less than obvious: A review. Gerontology doi: 10.1159/000494025
- JD Stanaway, A Afshin, E Gakidou, Stephen S Lim, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Cristiana Abbafati, Nooshin Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar, Foad Abd-Allah, Jemal Abdela, Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Ahmed Abdelalim, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Molla Abebe, Zegeye Abebe, Semaw F Abera, Olifan Zewdie Abil, Haftom Niguse Abraha, Roba Abrham Aklilu, Laith Abu-Raddad, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, M. Accrombessi, D Acharya, Pawan Acharaya, Abdu Abdullahi Adamu, Akilew Awoke Adane, O. Adebayo, Rufus Adesoji Adedoyin, V. Adekanmbi, Zanfina Ademi, Olatunji Adetokunboh, Mina Adib, Amha Admasie, Jose C. Adsuar, Kossivi Agbelenko Afanvi, Mohsen Afarideh, Gina Agarwal, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, SRM Zimsen, S Zodpey, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Gerhard Sulo, CJL Murray, Tone Bjørge, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Simon Nygaard Øverland, Anne Elise Eggen, Adnan Kisa, Elisabete Weiderpass, (2018). Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. . The Lancet s. 1923-1994. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32225-6
- Jan Saarela, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2018). Forced migration in childhood and subsequent fertility: The Karelian displaced population in Finland. Population, Space and Place doi: 10.1002/psp.2223
- Laeticia R De Souza, Bernardo L Queiroz, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2018). Trends in health and retirement in Latin America: Are older workers healthy enough to extend their working lives?. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2018.03.008
- Daniel Dicker, Grant Nguyen, Degu Abate, Adnan Kisa, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Simon Nygaard Øverland, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Gerhard Sulo, Christopher J L Murray, Anne Elise Eggen, Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Aung Soe Htet, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, (2018). Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet s. 1684-1735. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31891-9
- Mette Christophersen Tollånes, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Stein Emil Vollset, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Simon Nygaard Øverland, (2018). Sykdomsbyrden i Norge i 2016. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.18.0274
- Hanne-Merete Eriksen, Bjørn Heine Strand, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2018). Helse hos eldre i Norge.
- Devina Nand, Mohsen Naghavi, Laurie B Marczak, Michael Kutz, Katya Anne Shackelford, Megha Arora, Molly Miller-Petrie, Miloud Taki Eddine Aichour, Nadia Akseer, Rajaa M. Al-Raddadi, Khurshid Alam, Suliman A. Alghnam, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Olatunde Aremu, Amit Arora, Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Reza Assadi, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Leticia Avila-Burgos, Ashish Awasthi, Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla, Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Masoud Behzadifar, Meysam Behzadifar, James R. Bennett, Ashish Bhalla, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Arebu Issa Bilal, Guilherme Borges, Rohan Borschmann, Alexandra Brazinova, Julio Cesar Campuzano Rincon, Felix Carvalho, Carlos A. Castañeda-Orjuela, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Paul I Dargan, Diego De Leo, Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne, Eric L. Ding, Huyen Phuc Do, David Teye Doku, Kerrie E. Doyle, Tim Robert Driscoll, Dumessa Edessa, Ziad El-Khatib, Aman Yesuf Endries, Alireza Esteghamati, Andre Faro, Farshad Farzadfar, Valery L. Feigin, Florian Fischer, Kyle J. Foreman, Richard Charles Franklin, Nancy Fullman, Neal D. Futran, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Reyna Alma Gutiérrez, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Hassan Haghparast Bidgoli, Gessessew Bugssa Hailu, Josep Maria Haro, Hamid Yimam Hassen, Caitlin Hawley, Delia Hendrie, Martha Hijar, Guoqing Hu, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Spencer L. James, Sudha Jayaraman, Jost B. Jonas, Amaha Kahsay, Amir Kasaeian, Peter Njenga Keiyoro, Yousef Khader, Ibrahim A. Khalil, Young-Ho Khang, Jagdish Khubchandani, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Christian Kieling, Yun Jin Kim, Soewarta Kosen, Kristopher J. Krohn, G. Anil Kumar, Faris Hasan Lami, Van C. Lansingh, Heidi Jane Larson, Shai Linn, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Reza Malekzadeh, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Amanda J. Mason-Jones, Richard Matzopoulos, Peter T.N. Memiah, Walter Mendoza, (2018). Global mortality from firearms, 1990-2016. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) s. 792-814. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.10060
- David McClendon, Conrad Hackett, Michaela Potancokova, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2018). Women's Education in the Muslim World. Population and Development Review s. 311-342. doi: 10.1111/padr.12142
- Nancy Fullman, Jamal Yearwood, Solomon M. Abay, Cristiana Abbafati, Foad Abd-Allah, Jemal Abdela, Ahmed Abdelalim, Zegeye Abebe, Teshome Abuka Abebo, Victor Aboyans, Haftom Niguse Abraha, Daisy M. X. Abreu, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Akilew Awoke Adane, Rufus Adesoji Adedoyin, Olatunji Adetokunboh, Tara Ballav Adhikari, Mohsen Afarideh, Ashkan Afshin, Gina Agarwal, Dominic Agius, Anurag Agrawal, Sutapa Agrawal, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Miloud Taki Eddine Aichour, Mohammed Akibu, Rufus Olusola Akinyemi, Tomi F. Akinyemiju, Nadia Akseer, Faris Hasan Al Lami, Fares Alahdab, Ziyad Al-Aly, Khurshid Alam, Tahiya Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Mohammed I. Albittar, Kefyalew Addis Alene, Ayman Al-Eyadhy, Syed Danish Ali, Mehran Alijanzadeh, Syed M. Aljunid, Ala'a Alkerwi, Francois Alla, Peter Allebeck, Christine Allen, Mahmoud A. Alomari, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Ubai Alsharif, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Azmeraw T. Amare, Kebede Amenu, Walid Ammar, Yaw Ampem Amoako, Nahla Anber, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Sofia Androudi, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Valdelaine E. M. Araujo, Olatunde Aremu, Johan Arnlöv, Al Artaman, Krishna Kumar Aryal, Hamid Asayesh, Ephrem Tsegay Asfaw, Solomon Weldegebreal Asgedom, Rana Jawad Asghar, Mengistu Mitiku Ashebir, Netsanet Abera Asseffa, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Sachin R. Atre, Madhu S. Atteraya, Leticia Avila-Burgos, Euripide Frinel G. Arthur Avokpaho, Ashish Awasthi, Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla, Animut Alebel Ayalew, Henok Tadesse Ayele, Rakesh Ayer, Tambe Betrand Ayuk, Peter Azzopardi, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Tesleem Kayode Babalola, Hamid Badali, Alaa Badawi, Maciej Banach, Amitava Banerjee, Amrit Banstola, Ryan M. Barber, Miguel A. Barboza, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Till Bärnighausen, Simon Barquera, Lope H. Barrero, Quique Bassat, Sanjay Basu, Bernhard T. Baune, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Ettore Beghi, (2018). Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet s. 2236-2271. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30994-2
- Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Megan Todd, Marcin Stonawski, (2018). Religious affiliation at time of death - Global estimates and projections. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health s. 229-239. doi: 10.1177/1403494817733870
- Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Melissa Hardy, Bjørn Heine Strand, (2018). Women’s spousal choices and a man’s handshake: Evidence from a Norwegian study of cohort differences. SSM - Population Health s. 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.04.004
- Ali H. Mokdad, Katherine Ballestros, Michelle Echko, Scott Glenn, Helen E. Olsen, Erin Mullany, Alex Lee, Abdur Rahman Khan, Alireza Ahmadi, Alize J. Ferrari, Amir Kasaeian, Andrea Werdecker, Austin Carter, Ben Zipkin, Benn Sartorius, Berrin Serdar, Bryan L. Sykes, Chris Troeger, Christina Fitzmaurice, Colin D. Rehm, Damian Santomauro, Daniel Kim, Danny Colombara, David C. Schwebel, Derrick Tsoi, Dhaval Kolte, Elaine Nsoesie, Emma Nichols, Eyal Oren, Fiona J. Charlson, George C. Patton, Gregory A. Roth, H. Dean Hosgood, Harvey A. Whiteford, Hmwe Kyu, Holly E. Erskine, Hsiang Huang, Ira Martopullo, Jasvinder A. Singh, Jean B. Nachega, Juan R. Sanabria, Kaja Abbas, Kanyin Ong, Karen Tabb, Kristopher J. Krohn, Leslie Cornaby, Louisa Degenhardt, Mark Moses, Maryam Farvid, Max Griswold, Michael Criqui, Michelle Bell, Minh Nguyen, Mitch Wallin, Mojde Mirarefin, Mostafa Qorbani, Mustafa Younis, Nancy Fullman, Patrick Liu, Paul Briant, Philimon Gona, Rasmus Havmoller, Ricky Leung, Ruth Kimokoti, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Simon I. Hay, Simon Yadgir, Stan Biryukov, Stein Emil Vollset, Tahiya Alam, Tahvi Frank, Talha Farid, Ted Miller, Theo Vos, Till Barnighausen, Tsegaye Telwelde Gebrehiwot, Yuichiro Yano, Ziyad Al-Aly, Alem Mehari, Alexis Handal, Amit Kandel, Ben Anderson, Brian Biroscak, Dariush Mozaffarian, E. Ray Dorsey, Eric L. Ding, Eun-Kee Park, Gregory Wagner, Guoqing Hu, Honglei Chen, Jacob E. Sunshine, Jagdish Khubchandani, Janet Leasher, Janni Leung, Joshua Salomon, Jürgen Unützer, Leah Cahill, Leslie Cooper, Masako Horino, Michael Brauer, (2018). The state of US health, 1990-2016: Burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) s. 1444-1472. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.0158
- George C Patton, Craig A Olsson, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Richard Saffery, Mary E Wlodek, Peter S Azzopardi, Marcin Stonawski, Bruce Rasmussen, Elizabeth Spry, Kate Francis, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Nicholas J Kassebaum, Ali H Mokdad, Christopher J L Murray, Andrew M Prentice, Nicola Reavley, Peter Sheehan, Kim Sweeny, Russell M Viner, Susan M Sawyer, (2018). Adolescence and the next generation. Nature s. 458-466. doi: 10.1038/nature25759
- Philipp Hessel, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Ursula M Staudinger, (2018). Trends and determinants of the Flynn effect in cognitive functioning among older individuals in 10 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health s. 383-389. doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-209979
- Eric Caron-Malenfant, Anne Goujon, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2018). The religious switching of immigrants in Canada. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies s. 2582-2602. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1392848
- Lene Martinsen, Trygve Ottersen, Joseph Dieleman, Philipp Hessel, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2018). Do less populous countries receive more development assistance for health per capita? Longitudinal evidence for 143 countries, 1990–2014. BMJ Global Health s. 1-8. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000528
- Vegard Skirbekk, Michaela Potancokova, Conrad Hackett, Marcin Jan Stonawski, (2018). Religious Affiliation among Older Age Groups Worldwide: Estimates for 2010 and Projections until 2050. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences s. 1439-1445. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw144
- Eric Bonsang, Vegard Skirbekk, Ursula M. Staudinger, (2017). As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: Gender-Role Attitudes and Late-Life Cognition. Psychological Science s. 1201-1213. doi: 10.1177/0956797617708634
- Catherine E Bowen, Vegard Skirbekk, (2017). Old age expectations are related to how long people want to live. Ageing & Society s. 1898-1923. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X16000726
- Simon I. Hay, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M. Abbas, Foad Abd-Allah, Abdishakur M. Abdulle, Teshome Abuka Abebo, Semaw Ferede Abera, Victor Aboyans, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Ilana N. Ackerman, Krishna Kumar Aryal, Alemayehu Hailu, Aung Soe Htet, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Adnan Kisa, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Stein Emil Vollset, Elisabete Weiderpass, Lars Jacob Stovner, Isaac Akinkunmi Adedeji, Olatunji Adetokunboh, Ashkan Afshin, Rakesh Aggarwal, Sutapa Agrawal, Anurag Agrawal, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Amani Nidhal Aichour, Ibtihel Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine Aichour, Sneha Aiyar, Tomi F. Akinyemiju, Nadia Akseer, Faris Hasan Al Lami, Fares Alahdab, Ziyad Al-Aly, Khurshid Alam, Noore Alam, Tahiya Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Kefyalew Addis Alene, Raghib Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Juma M. Alkaabi, Ala'a Alkerwi, François Alla, Peter Allebeck, Christine Allen, Fatma Al-Maskari, Mohammad Abdulaziz Almazroa, (2017). Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet s. 1260-1344. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32130-X
- Theo Vos, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M. Abbas, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Foad Abd-Allah, Abdishakur M. Abdulle, Teshome Abuka Abebo, Semaw Ferede Abera, Victor Aboyans, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Ilana N. Ackerman, Abdu Abdullahi Adamu, Olatunji Adetokunboh, Mohsen Afarideh, Ashkan Afshin, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Rakesh Aggarwal, Anurag Agrawal, Sutapa Agrawal, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Hamid Ahmadieh, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Amani Nidhal Aichour, Ibtihel Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine Aichour, Sneha Aiyar, Rufus Olusola Akinyemi, Nadia Akseer, Faris Hasan Al Lami, Fares Alahdab, Ziyad Al-Aly, Khurshid Alam, Noore Alam, Tahiya Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Kefyalew Addis Alene, Raghib Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Ala'a Alkerwi, Francois Alla, Peter Allebeck, Christine Allen, Fatma Al-Maskari, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Ubai Alsharif, Shirina Alsowaidi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Azmeraw T. Amare, Erfan Amini, Krishna Kumar Aryal, Aung Soe Htet, Adnan Kisa, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Mette Christophersen Tollånes, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Timothy J. Steiner, Lars Jacob Stovner, Stein Emil Vollset, Elisabete Weiderpass, Alemayehu Hailu, Christopher JL Murray, (2017). Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet s. 1211-1259. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32154-2
- Vegard Skirbekk, Trygve Ottersen, Hannah Hamavid, Nafis Sadat, Nafis Sadat, Joseph Dieleman, (2017). Vast majority of development assistance for health funds target those below age sixty. Health Affairs s. 926-930. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1370
- Ryan M Barber, Nancy Fullman, Reed J D Sorensen, Thomas Bollyky, Martin McKee, Ellen Nolte, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M. Abbas, Foad Abd-Allah, Abdishakur M. Abdulle, Abdulahi Abdurahman, Semaw Ferede Abera, Biju Abraham, Girmatsion Fisseha Abreha, Kelemework Adane, Ademola Lukman Adelekan, Ifedayo Morayo O. Adetifa, Ashkan Afshin, Arnav Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Sunilkumar Agarwal, Anurag Agarwal, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Alireza Ahmadi, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Kedir Yimam Ahmed, Rufus Olusola Akinyemi, Tomi F. Akinyemiju, Nadia Akseer, Ziyad Al-Aly, Khurshid Alam, Noore Alam, Sayed Saidul Alam, Zewdie Aderaw Alemu, Kefyalew Addis Alene, Lily Alexander, Ali Raghib, Syed Danish Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Stein Emil Vollset, Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Miloje Savic, Vegard Skirbekk, Alemayehu Hailu, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Aung Soe Htet, Sudan Prasad Neupane, Elisabete Weiderpass, (2017). Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet s. 231-266. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30818-8
- Øystein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, Vegard Skirbekk, (2017). Fertility history and use of antidepressant medication in late mid-life: a register-based analysis of Norwegian women and men.. Aging & Mental Health s. 477-486. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1118010
- Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Megha Arora, Ryan M. Barber, Espen Bjertness, Alemayehu Hailu, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Jens Christoffer Skogen, Miloje Savic, Vegard Skirbekk, Timothy J. Steiner, Lars Jacob Stovner, Kjetil Søreide, Stein Emil Vollset, Elisabete Weiderpass, (2016). Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet s. 1603-1658. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31460-X
- Theo Vos, Christine Allen, Megha Arora, Ryan M. Barber, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Alexandria Brown, Austin Carter, Daniel C. Casey, Fiona J. Charlson, Alan Z. Chen, Megan Coggeshall, Leslie Cornaby, Lalit Dandona, Daniel J. Dicker, Tina Dilegge, Holly E. Erskine, Alize J. Ferrari, Christina Fitzmaurice, Tom Fleming, Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Nancy Fullman, Peter W. Gething, Ellen M. Goldberg, Nicholas Graetz, Juanita Haagsma, Catherine Johnson, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Toana Kawashima, Laura Kemmer, Ibrahim A. Khalil, Yohannes Kinfu, Hmwe H. Kyu, Janni Leung, Xiaofeng Liang, Stephen S. Lim, Alan D Lopez, Rafael Lozano, Laurie Marczak, George A Mensah, Ali H. Mokdad, Mohsen Naghavi, Grant Nguyen, Elaine Nsoesie, Helen Olsen, David M. Pigott, Christine Pinho, Zane Rankin, Nikolas Reinig, Joshua A Salomon, Logan Sandar, Alison Smith, Jeffrey Stanaway, Caitlyn Steiner, Stephanie Teeple, Bernadette A. Thomas, Christopher Troeger, Joseph A. Wagner, Haidong Wang, Valentine Wanga, Harvey A. Whiteford, Leo Zoeckler, Amanuel Alemu Abajobir, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M. Abbas, Foad Abd-Allah, Biju Abraham, Ibrahim Abubakar, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Ilana N. Ackerman, Akindele Olupelumi Adebiyi, Zanfina Ademi, Arse Kouablan Adou, Kossivi Agbelenko Afanvi, Emilie Elisabet Agardh, Arnav Agarwal, Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, Hamid Ahmadieh, Oluremi N. Ajala, Rufus Olusola Akinyemi, Nadia Akseer, Ziyad Al-Aly, Khurshid Alam, Noore K. M. Alam, Saleh Fahed Aldhahri, Miguel Angel Alegretti, Zewdie Aderaw Alemu, Lily T. Alexander, Samia Alhabib, Raghib Ali, Ala'a Alkerwi, Francois Alla, Peter Allebeck, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Ubai Alsharif, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Azmeraw T. Amare, Alemayehu Amberbir, (2016). Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet s. 1545-1602. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31678-6
- Marcin Jan Stonawski, Michaela Potancokova, Vegard Skirbekk, (2016). Fertility Patterns of Native and Migrant Muslims in Europe. Population, Space and Place s. 553-567. doi: 10.1002/psp.1941
- Emilie Elisabet Agardh, Anna-Karin Danielsson, Mats Ramstedt, Astrid Ledgaard Holm, Finn Diderichsen, Knud Juel, Stein Emil Vollset, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Jonas Minet Kinge, Richard White, Vegard Skirbekk, Pia Mäkelä, Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar, Matthew M. Coates, Daniel C. Casey, Mohesen Naghavi, Peter Allebeck, (2016). Alcohol-attributed disease burden in four Nordic countries: a comparison using the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors 2013 study. Addiction s. 1806-1813. doi: 10.1111/add.13430
- Marcin Jan Stonawski, Michaela Potancokova, Matthew Cantele, Vegard Skirbekk, (2016). The changing religious composition of Nigeria: Causes and implications of demographic divergence. The Journal of Modern African Studies s. 361-387. doi: 10.1017/S0022278X16000409
- Maria Rita Testa, Valeria Bordone, Beata Osiewalska, Vegard Skirbekk, (2016). Are daughters’ childbearing intentions related to their mothers’ socio-economic status?. Demographic Research s. 581-616. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2016.35.21
- Elke Loichinger, Vegard Skirbekk, (2016). International Variation in Ageing and Economic Dependency: A Cohort Perspective. Comparative population studies s. 121-143. doi: 10.12765/CPoS-2016-04en
- Hmwe H. Kyu, Christine Pinho, Joseph A. Wagner, Jonathan C. Brown, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa, Fiona J. Charlson, Luc Edgar Coffeng, Lalit Dandona, Holly E. Erskine, Alize J. Ferrari, Christina Fitzmaurice, Thomas D. Fleming, Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Nicholas Graetz, Caterina Guinovart, Juanita Haagsma, Hideki Higashi, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Heidi J. Larson, Stephen S. Lim, Ali H. Mokdad, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Shaun V. Odell, Gregory A. Roth, Peter T. Serina, Jeffrey D. Stanaway, Awoke Misganaw, Harvey A. Whiteford, Timothy M. Wolock, Sarah Wulf Hanson, Foad Abd-Allah, Semaw Ferede Abera, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Fadia S. Al Buhairan, Azmeraw T. Amare, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Al Artaman, Suzanne L. Barker-Collo, Lope H. Barrero, Corina Benjet, Isabela M. Bensenor, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Boris Bikbov, Alexandra Brazinova, Ismael Campos-Nonato, Carlos A. Castaneda-Orjuela, Ferran Catala-Lopez, Rajiv Chowdhury, Cyrus Cooper, John A. Crump, Rakhi Dandona, Louisa Degenhardt, Robert P Dellavalle, Samath D Dharmaratne, Emerito Jose A Faraon, Valery L Feigin, Thomas Furst, Johanna M Geleijnse, Bradford D Gessner, Katherine B Gibney, Atsushi Goto, David Gunnell, Graeme J Hankey, Roderick J Hay, John C Hornberger, H Dean Hosgood, Guoqing Hu, Kathryn H Jacobsen, Sudha P Jayaraman, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Jost B Jonas, Andre Karch, Daniel Kim, Sungroul Kim, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, Burcu Kucuk Bicer, G Anil Kumar, Anders Larsson, Janet L Leasher, Ricky Leung, Yongmei Li, Steven E Lipshultz, Alan D Lopez, Paulo A Lotufo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Ronan A Lyons, Marek Majdan, Reza Malekzadeh, Taufiq Mashal, Amanda J Mason-Jones, Yohannes Adama Melaku, Ziad A Memish, Walter Mendoza, Ted R Miller, Charles N Mock, Joseph Murray, Sandra Nolte, In-Hwan Oh, Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya, (2016). Global and national burden of diseases and injuries among children and adolescents between 1990 and 2013 findings from the global burden of disease 2013 study. JAMA pediatrics s. 267-287. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.4276
- Bjørn Heine Strand, Rachel Cooper, Astrid Bergland, Lone Jørgensen, Henrik Schirmer, Vegard Skirbekk, Nina Emaus, (2016). The association of grip strength from midlife onwards with all-cause and cause-specific mortality over 17 years of follow-up in the Tromsø Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health s. 1214-1221. doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-206776
- Juanita A. Haagsma, Nicholas Graetz, Ian Bollinger, Mohsen Naghavi, Hideki Higashi, Erin C. Mullany, Semaw Ferede Abera, Jerry Puthenpurakal Abraham, Koranteng Adofo, Ubai Alsharif, Emmanuel A. Ameh, Walid Ammar, Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, Lope H. Barrero, Tolesa Bekele, Dipan Bose, Alexandra Brazinova, Ferran Catala-Lopez, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Paul I. Dargan, Diego De Leo, Louisa Degenhardt, Sarah Derrett, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Tim R. Driscoll, Leilei Duan, Sergey Petrovich Ermakov, Farshad Farzadfar, Valery L Feigin, Richard C. Franklin, Belinda Gabbe, Richard A. Gosselin, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Martha Hijar, Guoqing Hu, Sudha P. Jayaraman, Guohong Jiang, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Sanjay Krishnaswami, Chanda Kulkarni, Fiona E. Lecky, Ricky Leung, Raimundas Lunevicius, Ronan Anthony Lyons, Marek Majdan, Amanda J. Mason-Jones, Richard Matzopoulos, Peter A. Meaney, Wubegzier Mekonnen, Ted R. Miller, Charles N. Mock, Rosana E. Norman, Ricardo Orozco, Suzanne Polinder, Farshad Pourmalek, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Amany Refaat, David Rojas-Rueda, Nobhojit Roy, David C. Schwebel, Amira Shaheen, Saeid Shahraz, Vegard Skirbekk, Kjetil Søreide, Sergey Soshnikov, Dan J. Stein, Bryan L. Sykes, Karen M. Tabb, Awoke Misganaw Temesgen, Eric Yeboah Tenkorang, Alice M. Theadom, Bach Xuan Tran, Tommi J. Vasankari, Monica S. Vavilala, Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov, Solomon Meseret Woldeyohannes, Paul Yip, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Chuanhua Yu, Christopher J.L. Murray, Theo Vos, (2016). The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013. Injury Prevention s. 3-18. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041616
- Marcin Jan Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Conrad Hackett, Michaela Potancokova, Phillip Connor, Brian Grim, (2015). Global Population Projections by Religion: 2010-2050. Yearbook of International Religious Demography s. 101-116. doi: 10.1163/9789004297395_004
- Marcin Jan Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Eric P. Kaufmann, Anne Goujon, (2015). The End of Secularization through Demography? Projections of Spanish Religiosity. Journal of Contemporary Religion s. 1-21. doi: 10.1080/13537903.2015.986972
- Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Jan Stonawski, Setsuya Fukuda, Thomas Spoorenberg, Conrad Hackett, Raya Muttarak, (2015). Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?. Demographic Research s. 1-28. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.1
- Conrad Hackett, Marcin Jan Stonawski, Michaela Potancokova, Brian Grim, Vegard Skirbekk, (2015). The future size of religiously affiliated and unaffiliated populations. Demographic Research s. 829-842. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.32.27
- Bjørn Heine Strand, Vegard Skirbekk, Tor Atle Rosness, Knut Engedal, Espen Bjertness, (2015). Income in midlife and dementia related mortality over three decades: A Norwegian prospective study. eNeurologicalSci s. 24-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ensci.2015.09.002
- Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski, Guido Alfani, (2015). Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population distributions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change s. 271-289. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.05.003
- Jonas Minet Kinge, Ólöf Anna Steingrímsdóttir, Joakim Oliu Moe, Vegard Skirbekk, Øyvind Næss, Bjørn Heine Strand, (2015). Educational differences in life expectancy over five decades among the oldest old in Norway. Age and Ageing s. 1040-1045. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afv128
- Jonas Minet Kinge, Bjørn Heine Strand, Stein Emil Vollset, Vegard Skirbekk, (2015). Educational inequalities in obesity and gross domestic product: evidence from 70 countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health s. 1141-1146. doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-205353
- Jonas Minet Kinge, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Vegard Skirbekk, Stein Emil Vollset, (2015). Musculoskeletal disorders in Norway: Prevalence of chronicity and use of primary and specialist health care services. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders doi: 10.1186/s12891-015-0536-z
- Solveig Tobie Glestad Christiansen, Vegard Skirbekk, (2015). Is divorce green? Energy use and marital dissolution. Population and environment s. 111-130. doi: 10.1007/s11111-015-0236-5
- Haidong Wang, Chelsea A Liddell, Matthew M Coates, Meghan D Mooney, Carly E Levitz, Austin E Schumacher, Henry Apfel, Marissa Iannarone, Bryan Phillips, Katherine Lofgren, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Skirbekk, Stein Emil Vollset, (2014). Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet s. 957-979. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60497-9
- Jonas Minet Kinge, Ingrid Roxrud, Stein Emil Vollset, Vegard Skirbekk, John-Arne Røttingen, (2014). Are the Norwegian health research investments in line with the disease burden?. Health Research Policy and Systems doi: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-64
- D Weber, Vegard Skirbekk, I Freund, A Herlitz, (2014). The changing face of cognitive gender differences in Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America s. 11673-11678. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319538111
- Marie Ng, Tom Fleming, Margaret Robinson, Blake Thomson, Nicholas Graetz, Christopher Margono, Erin C. Mullany, Stan Biryukov, Cristiana Abbafati, Semaw Ferede Abera, Jerry P. Abraham, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Tom Achoki, Fadia S. Albuhairan, Zewdie A. Alemu, Rafael Alfonso, Mohammed K. Ali, Raghib Ali, Nelson Alvis Guzman, Walid Ammar, Palwasha Anwari, Amitava Banerjee, Simon Barquera, Sanjay Basu, Derrick A. Bennett, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Jed Blore, Norberto Cabral, Ismael Campos Nonato, Jung-Chen Chang, Rajiv Chowdhury, Karen J. Courville, Michael H. Criqui, David K. Cundiff, Kaustubh C. Dabhadkar, Lalit Dandona, Adrian Davis, Anand Dayama, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Eric L. Ding, Adnan M. Durrani, Alireza Esteghamati, Farshad Farzadfar, Derek F.J.. Fay, Valery L. Feigin, Abraham Flaxman, Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Atsushi Goto, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Skirbekk, Stein Emil Vollset, (2014). Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet s. 766-781. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60460-8
- Vegard Skirbekk, K S James, (2014). Abuse against elderly in India - The role of education. BMC Public Health doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-336
- Christopher J L Murray, Sudan Prasad Neupane, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Skirbekk, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Stein Emil Vollset, (2014). Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990—2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet s. 1005-1070. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60844-8
- N J Kassebaum, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa, Megan S Coggeshall, Katya A Shackelford, Caitlyn Steiner, Sudan Prasad Neupane, Vegard Skirbekk, Ole Frithjof Norheim, (2014). Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet s. 980-1004. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60844-8
- Vegard Skirbekk, Morten Blekesaune, (2014). Personality Traits Increasingly Important for Male Fertility: Evidence from Norway. European Journal of Personality s. 521-529. doi: 10.1002/per.1936
- Torbjørn Skardhamar, Vegard Skirbekk, (2013). Relative mortality among criminals in Norway and the relation to drug and alcohol related offences. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078893
- Simon Nygaard Øverland, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Stein Emil Vollset, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Mette Christophersen Tollånes, (2018). Sykdomsbyrden i Norge i 2016. Resultater fra Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016)
- Ann Kristin Knudsen, Jonas Minet Kinge, Vegard Skirbekk, Stein Emil Vollset, (2016). Sykdomsbyrde i Norge 1990-2013. Resultater fra Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors study 2013 (GBD 2013)
- George C. Patton, Craig A. Olsson, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Richard Saffery, Mary E. Wlodek, Peter S. Azzopardi, Marcin Stonawski, Bruce Rasmussen, Elizabeth Spry, Kate Francis, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Ali H. Mokdad, Christopher J. L. Murray, Andrew M. Prentice, Nicola Reavley, Peter Sheehan, Kim Sweeny, Russell M. Viner, Susan M. Sawyer, (2018). Publisher Correction: Adolescence and the next generation. Nature doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0069-3
- Philipp Hessel, Solveig Tobie Glestad Christiansen, Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, (2017). Poor health as a potential risk factor for job loss due to automation: the case of Norway. Occupational and Environmental Medicine doi: 10.1136/oemed-2017-104349
- Ragnhild Nordås, Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Jan Stonawski, (2016). Religious Contention Today and Scenarios for the Future.
- Leni Aurora Brækhus, Henrik Schirmer, Laura Fratiglioni, Bjørn Heine Strand, Vegard Skirbekk, (2014). Positivt at befolkningen blir eldre.
- Bjørn Heine Strand, Vegard Skirbekk, Sverre Bergh, Brynjar Fowels Landmark, Ellen Melbye Langballe, Jonas Minet Kinge, Øyvind Kirkevold, Geir Selbæk, (2014). Norwegian Survey of Health and Ageing (NORSE) – Oppland: a Pilot Study.