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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Tamas Hajdu from HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies gives a talk. More

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Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics

New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

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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

Gueltzow, M.; Oude Groeniger, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Jansen , P. W.; Houweling, T. A. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.:

Childhood obesity's influence on socioeconomic disparities in young adolescents’ mental health Annals of Epidemiology 94, 19–26. (2024)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Caswell, H.:

Projections of human kinship for all countries Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:52, e2315722120–e2315722120. (2023)

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Press Release | April 02, 2025

Low Fertility and Economic Sustainability

SPOTLIGHT | March 13, 2025

A Difficult Childhood Increases the Risk of Dying Early

SPOTLIGHT | March 11, 2025

Level of Education and Place of Residence Influence Fertility 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

Recommended Reading | May 12, 2025