October 22, 2024

Family as a Wealth Factor

A new study conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), the University of Cologne, GESIS and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health explores how an individual’s financial wealth changes in relation to generational transitions within the family. The results indicate that those who become parents and grandparents later in life, and, particularly if they experience the loss of their parents later, tend to accumulate the most wealth. In contrast, families spanning four generations experience the smallest increase in wealth. A person's financial wealth is deeply interconnected with intergenerational family transitions, such as the birth of grandchildren or the death of parents, and is tied to the family structure as a whole. More

October

Hybrid Format

LabTalk with Nataliia Levchuk, L.H. Lumey and Aapo Hiilamo

1:00 PM: Joint talk Nataliia Levchuk and L.H. Lumey (external) - tba
1:45 PM: Aapo Hiilamo - tba

Hybrid Format
Room 400 and Zoom More

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Latest Publications | October 18, 2024

Autumn 2024

Call for Papers

Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity

Introduction to our research groups

Gender Inequalities and Fertility

New Faces at MPIDR | October 17, 2024

Welcome, Boris Barron!

Boris Barron joins the team at the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility. Boris comes from Cornell University, where he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on "Applications of Information Theory to Modelling Complex Systems". While working with at the MPIDR over the next three years, Boris aims to further refine the modelling process and apply these ideas to systems where they could be most useful. More

Selected Publications

Gueltzow, M.; Lahtinen, H.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Genetic propensity to depression and the role of partnership status Social Science and Medicine 351:116992, 1–8. (2024)

Akbaritabar, A.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Larivière, V.:

A global perspective on social stratification in science Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11:914, 1–10. (2024)

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Career

Open Positions

Call for Papers

Measuring Migration in Latin America

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New Issue 3/2024 available | September 24, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

New articles every week

News | July 17, 2024

Sharing is Caring – Open Science in Demographic Research

Open Access

Online Available Books

October 15, 2024

The Debate on the Limits of Human Life Extension Continues

What's the upper limit of human life expectancy? Researchers tackle this question in a study published in Nature Aging, noting the slowdown in the rate of increase since 1990 and the implausibility of radical life extension this century. However, Dmitri Jdanov and Domantas Jasilionis from the Max Planck Institute provide a more hopeful commentary in the same journal, arguing that it is important to consider optimistic scenarios. More