MPIDR affiliated scientist Andrés Felipe Castro Torres and his Co-Author Edith Yolanda Gutierrez-Vazquez were awarded with the 2023 Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year prize for his paper “Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America”. More
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A new study by the University of Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) has examined the fertility trends of same-sex female couples in Finland. The data shows a significant increase in the likelihood of these couples having a child within five years of registering their partnership, rising from 20% to 45% for partnerships registered between 2002 and 2016. This trend was particularly pronounced among couples with a higher level of education, while the probability decreased among couples with a lower level of education. More
Şanlitürk, A. E.; Billari, F. C.:
Search for a new home: refugee stock and Google search International Migration Review, 1–29. (2024)
Shi, J.; Aburto, J. M.; Martikainen, P.; Tarkiainen, L.; van Raalte, A. A.:
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification Population Studies 77:1, 15–33. (2023)
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A current study by Prof. L. H. Lumey (Columbia University, New York) and Dr. Nataliia Levchuk (MPIDR / Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies, Kyiv) et al. examined the long-term effects of prenatal famine on adult health. The researchers analyzed data from people born before, during and after the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine and found that those born during the famine had a two-fold higher risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. More