Recommended Reading | May 12, 2025

Birth seasonality: Eastern Germany realigns with the West after reunification

There are times of the year when more children are born than usual. In his latest publication, Risto Conte Keivabu, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), examines how the seasonal distribution of births in East and West Germany has changed between 1946 and 2017, and whether German reunification was associated with a change in the seasonality of births.  More

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2025 Research Soft Skill Seminars

MPIDR colleagues, PhD students and guests are invited to participate in the 2025 edition of the Research Soft Skill Seminars.  More

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New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

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Demographic Data

May 09, 2025

Review of the Rostock Open Science Workshop 2025

In March 2025, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) hosted the second Rostock Open Science Workshop in Rostock, Germany. The two-day event brought together researchers, scientists, and experts from around the world to discuss and learn about open science practices, with a focus on making research results and materials freely available to everyone. The workshop aimed to increase knowledge sharing, transparency and reproducibility of published results.  More

Selected Publications

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)

Conte Keivabu, R.; Widmann, T.:

The effect of temperature on language complexity: evidence from seven million parliamentary speeches   Iscience 27:6, 1–13. (2024)

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Life & Research in Rostock

New Publication | March 17, 2025

How have Covid-19 vaccinations affected birth rates?

New Faces at MPIDR | May 08, 2025

Welcome, Antonino Polizzi!

Antonino Polizzi has been a researcher in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography since February. He will defend his doctoral thesis in sociology at the University of Oxford. In Rostock, he finds the astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church particularly interesting.  More

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.