COVID-19 | June 24, 2022

Tens of Millions Left Bereaved Because of the Pandemic

The pandemic killed millions of people worldwide. The number of bereaved is even higher. Young people more often lost grandparents, and older people were more likely to mourn the loss of siblings. These are the results of a simulation-based study published in PNAS by an international team including MPIDR Researchers and a visiting student from the University of California, Berkeley. More

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This course reviews selected research designs and estimation methods that can be used to obtain causal estimates. More

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Call for Abstracts | June 09, 2022

EAPS Working Group on Register-Based Fertility Research

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Migration in Europe | June 22, 2022

LinkedIn Data Shed Light on the Openness to Migrate Internationally for a Job

In their recent study MPIDR Researcher Daniela Perrotta and co-authors show how a novel LinkedIn dataset can be used to characterize international migration aspirations in Europe. They find that in absolute terms, countries in Northern and Western Europe are the most attractive ones for potential migrants. But in terms of relative attractiveness - quantified by means of a gravity-type model - Southern Europe appears to be more attractive. More

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Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Miranda, V.; Fallesen, P.; Dommermuth, L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Not just later, but fewer: novel trends in cohort fertility in the Nordic countries Demography 58:4, 1373–1399. (2021)

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Kolk, M.; Zagheni, E.:

Women's experience of child death: a global demographic perspective Demography 58:5, 1715–1735. (2021)

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Migration of German Scientists | June 13, 2022

Men Are More Likely to Return to Germany

Last summer, MPIDR Researcher Xinyi Zhao and colleagues published a study analyzing migration flows of scientists moving to and from Germany, using bibliometric data from over eight million scholarly publications from the online publication database Scopus. Their most recent paper, a follow-up study, appeared in the journal Scientometrics and shows that male researchers who had left Germany return to Germany at a higher rate than female researchers of the same academic cohorts and disciplines. More

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New Issue 2/2022 available | July 04, 2022

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Media Coverage | June 22, 2022

Covid-19 Experts at the MPIDR

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Glossary of Demographic Terms

COVID-19 Blog | May 13, 2022

Blog Update: How to Calculate Excess Mortality to Better Estimate the Impact of the Pandemic

Marília Nepomuceno, Dmitri Jdanov and colleagues looked at factors that affect excess mortality. They explain why excess mortality rates vary substantially when changing data and methods and recommend ways to better calculate it. More