Award | December 07, 2023

Young Researcher Award for Emma Zai

Emma Zai from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) was awarded the AIES Young Researcher Award together with Yinan Liu (Renmin University of China) at the 28th AIES Annual Conference in Rome. More

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Doctoral School

PHDS Core Course on Digital and Computational Demography

The course aims to introduce students to core demographic and social science methods that are essential to interpret digital trace data. More

All Events

Summer Research Visit 2024

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program

JOB OPENING

Foreign Language Secretary

Introduction to our research groups

Fertility and Well-Being

SPOTLIGHT | November 29, 2023

Number of Twitter Friends Increases After Migration

How are migrants’ social integration processes reflected in social media? Is it possible to detect the evolution of new social connections? Jisu Kim, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, investigated these questions in a study with researchers from Saarland University, the World Bank, and Rutger University. Jisu Kim explains the research question, methodology and results in a short video. More

Selected Publications

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Mason, C.; Zagheni, E.:

The “Sandwich Generation” revisited: global demographic drivers of care time demands Population and Development Review 47:4, 997–1023. (2021)

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)

More Publications

JOB OPENING

Projektreferent*in (m/w/d) mit Schwerpunkt Fundraising und Drittmittelkoordination

New Issue 3/2023 available | October 10, 2023

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New articles every week

Media Coverage | March 02, 2023

Covid-19 Experts at the MPIDR

What is demography?

Glossary of Demographic Terms

Open Access

Online Available Books

NEW FACES AT MPIDR | November 27, 2023

Welcome, Julia Leesch!

The research group Gender Inequalities and Fertility welcomes Julia Leesch as a new team member. Julia holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin. While working at MPIDR over the next two years, Julia plans to focus, among other things, on the impact of changes in the educational composition of partner markets on fertility outcomes. More