The administration team of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) welcomed René Langenhan as an in-house technician/driver this summer. More
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A recent study found that behavioral changes, such as a decline in smoking, and social progress, including an expansion of education, have contributed to recent improvements in U.S. mortality. Together, these two factors accounted for 65% of the improvements in mortality. The researchers also identified an increase in psychological distress as a contributing factor to the slowing of mortality improvement in the U.S. during the study period, but most of the slowing remains unexplained. More
Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:
At the intersection of adverse life course pathways: the effects on health by migration status Demography, 1–22. (2024)
Coimbra Vieira, C.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:
The value of cultural similarity for predicting migration: evidence from food and drink interests in digital trace data Population and Development Review, 1–28. (2024)
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On September 6, 2024, Anastasia Lam successfully defended her thesis "Growing old with multimorbidity: how our differences shape the years we live with disease" at the University of St Andrews, passing the viva without any corrections. More