A recent study by researchers at the University of Padua and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) has revealed that political differences between partners can significantly increase the risk of separation. Using long-term data from UK couples, the researchers found that those with different party preferences were substantially more likely to separate than those with the same political beliefs. The risk is particularly high when there are differences of opinion on Brexit. More
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Ting-Syuan Lin and Irena Chen from the Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being are giving a tutorial as part of the 2025 Summer Incubator Programme. More
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Recap of the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference in Rostock: In March 2025, researchers from six continents gathered at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) for the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference in Rostock. The scholars came together to debate and advance the understanding of fertility, gender inequality, social stratification, and the growing complexity of family life. More
Shi, J.; Aburto, J. M.; Martikainen, P.; Tarkiainen, L.; van Raalte, A. A.:
A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification Population Studies 77:1, 15–33. (2023)
Dudel, C.; Schneider, D. C.:
How bad could it be? Worst-case bounds on bias in multistate models due to unobserved transitions Sociological Methods and Research 52:4, 1816–1837. (2021)
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In a paper recently published in Demography, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)) and his colleagues, Maike van Damme and Andres Castro Torres (Centro de Estudios Demográficos (CED)), compared survey data and kinship models in order to estimate the kin networks of older adults. They found that the two methods produced remarkably similar results, providing a solid foundation for continued work in kinship demography. More