Evelina Akimova
- Assistant Professor of Sociology
Office and Contact
Room: BRNG 1164
Email: eakimova@purdue.edu
Social Contexts and Policy for Optimal Aging Family Relations and Health; Social Connection, Health, and Wellbeing Across the Life Course; Life Course Methodology/Analysis (Life Course Data Science)
Education
PhD University of Oxford Sociology 2021
PhD University of Oxford Sociology 2021
Research Interests
Social demography & genomics, social stratification, family demography, fertility, life course, sleep & mental health, causal inference
Social demography & genomics, social stratification, family demography, fertility, life course, sleep & mental health, causal inference
Teaching Interests
Genes & Society, Genomics Methods for Social Scientists, Methods, Causal Inference, Demography
Genes & Society, Genomics Methods for Social Scientists, Methods, Causal Inference, Demography
Selected Grants
2025 - CLA Summer Completion Incentive Award Competition
2022 - ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Grant - Role: Co-A
2022 - European Commission, Horizon Europe Framework Programme - Role: Co-A
2021 - Oxford Summer School in Computational Social Science - Role: PI
Selected Publications
2025
Akimova, Evelina T.,* Tobias Wolfram,* Xuejie Ding, Felix C. Tropf, and Melinda
C. Mills. Polygenic prediction of occupational status GWAS elucidates genetic and
environmental interplay in intergenerational transmission, careers and health in UK
Biobank. Nature Human Behaviour. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-02076-3 *Denotes joint lead
authorship
Dederichs, Kasimir, Evelina T. Akimova, and Nan Dirk de Graaf. Who Remains
Single? Educational Gradients in Long-Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups. Journal
of Marriage and Family. doi: 10.1111/jomf.70017
Single? Educational Gradients in Long-Term Singlehood Across Ethnic Groups. Journal
of Marriage and Family. doi: 10.1111/jomf.70017
Ding, Xuejie, Evelina T. Akimova, Bo Zhao, and Melinda C. Mills. Night Shift
Work and Sleep Duration among Middle and Older Age Adults: The Role of Individual,
Social, and Environmental Moderators. Social Science & Medicine. 118443. doi:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118443
Work and Sleep Duration among Middle and Older Age Adults: The Role of Individual,
Social, and Environmental Moderators. Social Science & Medicine. 118443. doi:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118443
Rafael Geurgas, Katherine N. Thompson, Saul J. Newman, Evelina T. Akimova, Robbee
Wedow, and Felix C. Tropf. What machine learning teaches us about depression prediction
across the life course: An exploratory comparison of predictive models. SSM - Population
Health. 101886. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101886
2024
Praeg, Patrick, Lewis Anderson, Evelina T. Akimova, and Christiaan Monden. The
Total Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment. Meta-Analysis of Sibling
Correlations from 18 Countries. Demography, 61 (5): 1637–1666. doi: 10.1215/00703370-
11579806
Total Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment. Meta-Analysis of Sibling
Correlations from 18 Countries. Demography, 61 (5): 1637–1666. doi: 10.1215/00703370-
11579806
Tilstra, Andrea, Antonino Polizzi,* Sander Wagner, and Evelina T. Akimova. The
Long-term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on US Population Structure. Nature
Communications, 15(1), 2409. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46582-4 *Graduate student
Long-term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on US Population Structure. Nature
Communications, 15(1), 2409. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46582-4 *Graduate student
Ding, Xuejie, Evelina T. Akimova, Bo Zhao, Kasimir Dederichs,* and Melinda C.
Mills. Prepayment meters strongly associated with multiple types of deprivation and
emergency respiratory hospital admissions: an observational, cross-sectional study. Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health, 78(1): 54–60. doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220793
*Graduate student
Mills. Prepayment meters strongly associated with multiple types of deprivation and
emergency respiratory hospital admissions: an observational, cross-sectional study. Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health, 78(1): 54–60. doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220793
*Graduate student
Liu, Aoxing, Evelina T. Akimova, Xuejie Ding, Sakari Jukarainen, Pekka Vartiainen,
Tuomo Kiiskinen, Sara Koskelainen et al. Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the
relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women.
Nature Human Behaviour, 1–12. doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01763-x
Tuomo Kiiskinen, Sara Koskelainen et al. Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the
relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women.
Nature Human Behaviour, 1–12. doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01763-x
2023
Leasure, Douglas R., Ridhi Kashyap, Francesco Rampazzo, Claire A. Dooley, Benjamin Elbers,
Maksym Bondarenko, Mark Verhagen, Evelina T. Akimova et al. Nowcasting daily
population displacement in Ukraine through social media advertising data. Population
and Development Review. doi: 10.1111/padr.12558
Maksym Bondarenko, Mark Verhagen, Evelina T. Akimova et al. Nowcasting daily
population displacement in Ukraine through social media advertising data. Population
and Development Review. doi: 10.1111/padr.12558
Evelina T. Akimova, Riley Taiji, Xuejie Ding, Melinda C. Mills. Gene-x-environment
analysis supports protective effects of eveningness chronotype on self-reported and
actigraphy-derived sleep duration among those who always work night shifts in the
UK Biobank. Sleep, zsad023. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsad023