Prize for Excellent Paper | December 09, 2022

Ben Malinga John is Granted the Jan M. Hoem Paper Award

The paper which examines differences in fertility levels between remarried women and women in intact unions in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ben Malinga John and a colleague was granted the award in the name of former MPIDR Director Jan M. Hoem. More

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Doctoral School

PHDS Annual Academy

Once a year, the Annual Academy brings together IMPRS-PHDS students and their supervisors. During the Academy the participants are involved in various program components, have a lot of opportunities for networking and collegial exchange. More

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Job Opening

Postdoc Position at the Max Planck-University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health

Job Opening

BIOSFER – Post-Doc Positions at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Introduction to our research groups

Population Health

Relaunch | November 21, 2022

The Human Fertility Database Renewed its Website

A newly designed website for the Human Fertility Database (HFD) has been launched in early November. Along with the launch, the HFD now provides its data under a CC-BY 4.0 license. More

Selected Publications

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands Population and Development Review 47:4, 997–1023. (2021)

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Miranda, V.; Fallesen, P.; Dommermuth, L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Not just later, but fewer: novel trends in cohort fertility in the Nordic countries Demography 58:4, 1373–1399. (2021)

More Publications

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Postdoc / Research Scientist Positions

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Foreign Language Secretary

Questions and Answers

Beeing a Researcher at the MPIDR

USA | November 17, 2022

Being Obese in Early Adulthood Increases the Chance of Remaining Childless at 40 and beyond

A team of researchers used longitudinal survey data from the late 1950s US birth cohort to show how sex and ethnicity relate to how weight (BMI) during early adulthood predicts later childlessness. The study was recently published in the journal “Population Studies”. More

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

Summer Research Visit

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program

Media Coverage | November 30, 2022

Covid-19 Experts at the MPIDR

Introduction

What is Demography?

New Issue 3/2022 available | September 27, 2022

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Max Planck Society

What is demography?

Glossary of Demographic Terms

Max Planck Society

Reconciliation of work and family

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Jobs & Fellowships

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Overview 2022

COVID-19 Research at the MPIDR

The COVID-19 pandemic has been part of our lives for more than two years now. Science has done an extraordinary job during this time at unravelling mysteries and unlocking solutions. In like manner, researchers at MPIDR are investigating demographic issues in connection to the novel coronavirus. This dossier provides a thematic overview of the studies published in 2022. More