New Faces at MPIDR | December 03, 2024

Welcome, Maren Koch!

The Max Planck Institue for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is happy to welcome Maren Koch to the administrative team. Maren will support the Laboratories of Migration and Mobility and Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being as foreign language secretary. More

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Doctoral School

6th PHDS Annual Academy

Once a year, the Annual Academy brings together IMPRS-PHDS students and their supervisors at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. During the three days Academy the participants are involved in various program components, e.g. student and faculty presentations, and have a lot of opportunities for networking and collegial exchange. More

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Call for Application

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program

Latest Publications | November 26, 2024

Autumn 2024

Introduction to our research groups

Labor Demography

SPOTLIGHT | November 21, 2024

Health in the Shadow of Holodomor: The Impact of Prenatal Famine

A current study by Prof. L. H. Lumey (Columbia University, New York) and Dr. Nataliia Levchuk (MPIDR / Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies, Kyiv) et al. examined the long-term effects of prenatal famine on adult health. The researchers analyzed data from people born before, during and after the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine and found that those born during the famine had a two-fold higher risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. More

Selected Publications

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)

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)

More Publications

Career

Open Positions

New Issue 3/2024 available | September 24, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New articles every week

Press Release | September 03, 2024

Pandemic Childcare Burden on Mothers: Study Reveals Increased Mental Health Strain

Open Access

Online Available Books

Press Release | September 25, 2024

Hardest Hit by Heat: Study Exposes Racial Disparities in U.S. Mortality Rates

Press Release | November 05, 2024

Women´s Education Influences Fertility Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa

New research shows a strong correlation between higher levels of female education and lower fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and partners finds that educated women are leading the shift towards smaller family sizes, even influencing the decisions of less educated women around them. The study's innovative forecasting model based on education levels provides policymakers with better tools to understand how women's education can shape future population trends and promote sustainable development. More