Press Release | May 14, 2025

Where the Brightest Minds in Science Moved

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) expanded the regional data included in the Scholarly Migration Database to examine how scientists move internationally across countries and internally within countries. The team found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. When a region within a country is a popular destination for scientists, they come from both within the country and from abroad. Less attractive destinations see more complex patterns. More

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2:00 PM: Talk with Anne Kristine L. Christensen (Aarhus University) - Exposome-wide association study investigating dietary and chemical factors in relation to childhood obesity
2:20 PM: Talk with Mine Kühn (MPIDR) - Partner’s Depression and Individual Mental Health After the Birth of the First Child
2:40 PM: Talk with Hans Fredrik Sunde (NIPH) - Partner similarity in adolescent school performance More

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Demographic and Health Consequences of Violence and Armed Conflict

New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

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Population Health

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

Selected Publications

Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:

Lessons from the pandemic: gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany Demographic Research 51:3, 49–80. (2024)

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide Demography, 1–23. (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

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