The Max Planck Institue for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is happy to welcome Maren Koch to the administrative team. Maren will support the Laboratories of Migration and Mobility and Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being as foreign language secretary. More
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1:00 PM: Talk with Aapo Hiilamo - Children’s average time in out-of-home care, number of placements and lifetime risks of entry, exit and re-entry for the synthetic cohorts of 1991-2020 in Finland
1:45 PM: Talk with Rustam Tursun-zade - A new incidence-based index of within-population health inequality More
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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
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)
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)
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New research shows a strong correlation between higher levels of female education and lower fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and partners finds that educated women are leading the shift towards smaller family sizes, even influencing the decisions of less educated women around them. The study's innovative forecasting model based on education levels provides policymakers with better tools to understand how women's education can shape future population trends and promote sustainable development. More