New Faces at MPIDR | September 10, 2024

Welcome Sha Jiang!

The Research Group Kinship Inequalities, led by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, and the Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-being, led by Emilio Zagheni, have the great pleasure of welcoming Sha Jiang as a new team member.  More

September

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Hybrid Format

LabTalk with Henrik Schubert and Ricarda Duerst

1:00 PM: Henrik Schubert Subnational Birth Squeezes?  Male-Female TFR Differences Across Six High- and Middle-Income Countries over Time
1:45 PM: Ricarda DuerstCalibrating Probabilistic Forecasts of Finnish Fertility on Historical Data

Hybrid Format
Room 400 and Zoom  More

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Latest Publications | September 10, 2024

Summer 2024

Introduction to our research groups

Migration and Mobility

SPOTLIGHT | September 06, 2024

Robust improvements in cognitive health in European countries, but not in the United States

Cognitive impairment is a major concern for the aging population, with more than 55 million people worldwide suffering from dementia, a number expected to triple by 2050. A recent study found that compared to the United States, most European countries have shown significant improvements in average memory function among adults aged 50 and older over the past two decades.  More

Selected Publications

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

At the intersection of adverse life course pathways: the effects on health by migration status    Demography, 1–22. (2024)

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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New Issue 2/2024 available | June 26, 2024

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New Publication | September 03, 2024

Pandemic Childcare Burden on Mothers: Study Reveals Increased Mental Health Strain

During the Covid-19 pandemic, parents suddenly had to cope without formal childcare, placing a significant strain on mothers in particular. A recent study from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) examines the changes in childcare arrangements during the pandemic and how this impacted parents' mental health. Mothers who continued to be primarily responsible for childcare experienced increased stress and exhaustion during the pandemic. Fathers, on the other hand, benefited in terms of health when their partner continued to provide the majority of childcare duties.  More

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