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
Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:
Lessons from the pandemic: gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany Demographic Research 51:3, 49–80. (2024)
Conte Keivabu, R.; Cozzani, M.; Wilde, J.:
Temperature and fertility: evidence from Spain Population Studies, 1–15. (2024)
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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