A new study conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), the University of Cologne, GESIS and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health explores how an individual’s financial wealth changes in relation to generational transitions within the family. The results indicate that those who become parents and grandparents later in life, and, particularly if they experience the loss of their parents later, tend to accumulate the most wealth. In contrast, families spanning four generations experience the smallest increase in wealth. A person's financial wealth is deeply interconnected with intergenerational family transitions, such as the birth of grandchildren or the death of parents, and is tied to the family structure as a whole. More
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1:00 PM: Joint talk Nataliia Levchuk and L.H. Lumey (external) - tba 1:45 PM: Aapo Hiilamo - tba
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Boris Barron joins the team at the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility. Boris comes from Cornell University, where he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on "Applications of Information Theory to Modelling Complex Systems". While working with at the MPIDR over the next three years, Boris aims to further refine the modelling process and apply these ideas to systems where they could be most useful. More
Dańko, M. J.; Wiśniowski, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.; Zagheni, E.:
Assessing the quality of data on international migration flows in Europe: the case of undercounting MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-026. (2023)
Basellini, U.:
Open science practices in demographic research: an appraisal Demographic Research 50:43, 1265–1280. (2024)
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What's the upper limit of human life expectancy? Researchers tackle this question in a study published in Nature Aging, noting the slowdown in the rate of increase since 1990 and the implausibility of radical life extension this century. However, Dmitri Jdanov and Domantas Jasilionis from the Max Planck Institute provide a more hopeful commentary in the same journal, arguing that it is important to consider optimistic scenarios. More