There are times of the year when more children are born than usual. In his latest publication, Risto Conte Keivabu, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), examines how the seasonal distribution of births in East and West Germany has changed between 1946 and 2017, and whether German reunification was associated with a change in the seasonality of births. More
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MPIDR colleagues, PhD students and guests are invited to participate in the 2025 edition of the Research Soft Skill Seminars. More
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In March 2025, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) hosted the second Rostock Open Science Workshop in Rostock, Germany. The two-day event brought together researchers, scientists, and experts from around the world to discuss and learn about open science practices, with a focus on making research results and materials freely available to everyone. The workshop aimed to increase knowledge sharing, transparency and reproducibility of published results. More
Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:
When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss Population Studies 79:1, 45–57. (2025)
Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Caswell, H.:
Projections of human kinship for all countries Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:52, e2315722120–e2315722120. (2023)
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Antonino Polizzi has been a researcher in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography since February. He will defend his doctoral thesis in sociology at the University of Oxford. In Rostock, he finds the astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church particularly interesting. More