New Faces at MPIDR | November 29, 2024

Welcome, Brooke Livo!

Brooke Livo started working as Summer Incubator Officer at the Department of Digital and Computational Demography. She is looking forward to meeting new people from all different fields and backgrounds and to advance her creative side a bit more. In her free time Brooke likes to do crafts. More

December

Scientific Presentations

LabTalks@SocialDemography

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

All Events

Call for Application

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program

Latest Publications | November 26, 2024

Autumn 2024

Introduction to our research groups

Fertility and Well-Being

SPOTLIGHT | November 21, 2024

Health in the Shadow of Holodomor: The Impact of Prenatal Famine

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

Selected Publications

Gueltzow, M.; Lahtinen, H.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Genetic propensity to depression and the role of partnership status Social Science and Medicine 351:116992, 1–8. (2024)

Anastasiadou, A.; Volgin, A.; Leasure, D. R.:

War and mobility: using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine Demographic Research 50:8, 205–220. (2024)

More Publications

Career

Open Positions

New Issue 3/2024 available | September 24, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New articles every week

Press Release | September 03, 2024

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

Open Access

Online Available Books

Press Release | September 25, 2024

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

Press Release | November 05, 2024

Women´s Education Influences Fertility Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa

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