Award | March 21, 2025

DGD Best Paper Award for Athina Anastasiadou

Migration researcher Athina Anastasiadou has won the Best Paper Award of the German Society for Demography (DGD). Anastasiadou received the award on March 20 at the DGD's annual conference for her paper "Gender Differences in the Migration Process: A Narrative Literature Review" in the journal Population and Development Review. More

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Solveig Cunningham (external) gives a talks. More

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Eugenics, demography and academia: an ongoing relationship

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Growing Divergences in Longevity in High-Income Populations

Introduction to our research groups

MaxHel Center

March 17, 2025

How have Covid-19 vaccinations affected birth rates?

A recent study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) found a link between the introduction of Covid-19 vaccination and a decline in fertility rates nine months later, with behavioral changes likely being the main cause. However, in most of the countries studied, the fertility rates returned to pre-pandemic levels after vaccination. There was no evidence of long-term adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccination on fertility tends. More

Selected Publications

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide Demography, 1–23. (2023)

Conte Keivabu, R.; Widmann, T.:

The effect of temperature on language complexity: evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches Iscience 27:6, 1–13. (2024)

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Introduction to Digital Trace Data for Migration Studies

Spotlight | March 13, 2025

A Difficult Childhood Increases the Risk of Dying Early

In their recent paper, Josephine Jackisch and Alyson van Raalte from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) find that a difficult childhood is an important determinant of inequalities in mortality. The size of the contribution is equivalent to established behavioural risk factors such as smoking or little exercise. More