Congratulations | January 15, 2025

Maria Gültzow Obtained Her Doctorate

Maria Gültzow from the Social Demography Department successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “Digging Deeper: Exploring mechanisms underlying subgroup variation in mental health” at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. More

January

Scientific Presentations

LabTalks@SocialDemography

Jonas Schöley from the Laboratory of Population Health, Biosfer and MaxHel Center gives a talk on mortality displacement as a convolution problem. More

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New Issue 4/2024 available | December 18, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Latest Publications | November 26, 2024

Winter 2024

Introduction to our research groups

Labor Demography

January 13, 2025

Rethinking Fertility Trends in Developed Countries

Birth rates are declining in developed countries around the world, a trend often linked with economic and human progress. A study led by Henrik-Alexander Schubert of the MPIDR reveals that fertility rates can actually increase at high levels of human development, a pattern known as the "J-shape." However, this relationship appears to have shifted after 2010, possibly influenced by the 2007/08 economic recession and changing societal values. More

Selected Publications

Gueltzow, M.; Oude Groeniger, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Jansen , P. W.; Houweling, T. A. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.:

Childhood obesity's influence on socioeconomic disparities in young adolescents’ mental health Annals of Epidemiology 94, 19–26. (2024)

van Raalte, A. A.; Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

The dangers of drawing cohort profiles from period data: a research note Demography, 1–10. (2023)

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Press Release | September 03, 2024

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

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Press Release | September 25, 2024

Hardest Hit by Heat: Study Exposes Racial Disparities in U.S. Mortality Rates

News | October 15, 2024

The Debate on the Limits of Human Life Extension Continues

Workshop | December 18, 2024

2nd Annual MaxHel Center Meeting

For the second time, the researchers of the Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health met for their annual MaxHel Center meeting at the beginning of November, this year in Rostock. A total of 40 people from MPIDR and the University of Helsinki took part in the two-day event. More