New Publication | March 15, 2024

Do school grades influence parental support?

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) has researched parents' support behavior in relation to school grades. The study shows that low-income families support their children equally regardless of grades, while parents from higher income groups tend to give more support to children with lower grades. It also raises the question of whether these patterns contribute to low social mobility, as parents of high-achieving children from lower social classes do not have the same resources and strategies at their disposal as parents of low-achieving children from higher social classes.  More

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IMPRS-PHDS elective course on “Multistate Models”

The life course of individuals can be conceived as a sequence of transitions between different states, for example (1) from being healthy to being ill, possibly recovering, and finally to death or (2) from living in parental home to living alone, cohabiting with a partner, with or without children, to perhaps living in an institution until death. The aim of life course analysis is to understand the timing and sequence of transitions as well as the risk factors that accelerate or slow down transitions.  More

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SPOTLIGHT | February 21, 2024

Widening fertility differences between women within different fields of education

Finland: First birth decline in 2010s more pronounced in fields associated with higher economic uncertainty

The birth rate in the Nordic countries has been falling steadily since 2010. Previous studies showed that the decline in first births among childless couples is the main driver of this trend and that this first birth decline was somewhat elevated among those with low levels of education and precarious employment. A team of researchers from the University of Helsinki, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the University of Turku has now investigated the extent to which the decline in fertility in Finland varies according to education field.  More

Selected Publications

Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Booth, H.:

Thirty years on: a review of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality   International Journal of Forecasting 39:3, 1033–1049. (2023)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:

The value of cultural similarity for predicting migration: evidence from food and drink interests in digital trace data   Population and Development Review, 1–28. (2024)

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PRESS RELEASE | February 06, 2024

More heart attacks in rural areas - better disease prevention needed

In Germany, more people aged 65 and over die from heart attacks in rural areas than in cities. Contrary to popular belief, this is probably not due to poorer emergency medical care, but because more people suffer heart attacks in rural areas.  More

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