Media reports say that many Russians wanted to leave their country after Russia's attack on Ukraine. But data to verify this are not available. A team of researchers has now leveraged a rarely used data source to examine whether this assumption can be proven by science. More
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Birth rates are declining in developed countries around the world, a trend often linked with economic and human progress. A study led by Henrik-Alexander Schubert of the MPIDR reveals that fertility rates can actually increase at high levels of human development, a pattern known as the "J-shape." However, this relationship appears to have shifted after 2010, possibly influenced by the 2007/08 economic recession and changing societal values. 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)
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)
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Maria Gültzow from the Social Demography Department successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “Digging Deeper: Exploring mechanisms underlying subgroup variation in mental health” at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. More