Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

New Faces at the MPIDR | October 09, 2026

Welcome, Jason Bonham!

The Research Group Reproductive Ageing welcomes Jason Paul Bonham as a new team member. Prior to joining MPIDR, he worked at the sociology department of the University of Chicago where he completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Demography and Economics of Aging. Jason studies the history of demography. Hereby, he uses individual-level population data, archival material, and social theory to research how institutions organize fertility behavior across time and place. In the group Reproductive Aging, he will consider how these institutional objectives and policies expose males to their reproductive ageing through delayed fatherhood.     More

Family | October 07, 2026

Parenthood with Multiple Partners

A new study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) reveals that gender and social background influence the complexity of families in different ways throughout people's lives. Even in highly gender-equal Nordic countries, social inequalities in family formation persist.  More

News | September 30, 2026

New Horizon Europe Project LIFe Traces Inequalities Across Lives and Generations

How much do the circumstances of your birth shape where you end up as an adult? The project LIFe (Intergenerational Fairness: A Life-Course Approach) brings together research and policy-analysis institutions across Europe to examine how advantages and disadvantages build up over entire lifetimes and across generations. MPIDR’s Department of Digital and Computational Demography will take a leading role in modelling demographic and health developments.  More