New Publication | September 03, 2024

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

During the Covid-19 pandemic, parents suddenly had to cope without formal childcare, placing a significant strain on mothers in particular. A recent study from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) examines the changes in childcare arrangements during the pandemic and how this impacted parents' mental health. Mothers who continued to be primarily responsible for childcare experienced increased stress and exhaustion during the pandemic. Fathers, on the other hand, benefited in terms of health when their partner continued to provide the majority of childcare duties.  More

September

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LabTalk with Henrik Schubert and Ricarda Duerst

1:00 PM: Henrik Schubert Subnational Birth Squeezes?  Male-Female TFR Differences Across Six High- and Middle-Income Countries over Time
1:45 PM: Ricarda DuerstCalibrating Probabilistic Forecasts of Finnish Fertility on Historical Data

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Latest Publications | September 06, 2024

Summer 2024

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Special Issue | September 04, 2024

"Pandemic Babies: The Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics" published

In 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) organized a conference on "Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on fertility and family dynamics". The conference brought together more than 100 international researchers to discuss their research on the impact and consequences of the pandemic on families and fertility. The special issue of Population and Development Review, "Pandemic Babies: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics" has now been published.  More

Selected Publications

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

At the intersection of adverse life course pathways: the effects on health by migration status    Demography, 1–22. (2024)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:

The value of cultural similarity for predicting migration: evidence from food and drink interests in digital trace data   Population and Development Review, 1–28. (2024)

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New Issue 2/2024 available | June 26, 2024

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SPOTLIGHT | August 29, 2024

Tackling Childhood Obesity Could Reduce Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Mental Health

A recent study shows that reducing childhood obesity could reduce inequalities in emotional problems. Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent mental health are also explained by the unequal distribution of childhood obesity. Children from low socioeconomic status (SES) families have more emotional problems because obesity rates are higher in this group. However, there is no evidence that obesity is more detrimental to mental health in some socioeconomic groups than in others.  More

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