New Faces at MPIDR | September 13, 2024

Welcome René Langenhan!

The administration team of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) welcomed René Langenhan as an in-house technician/driver this summer.  More

Latest Publications | September 12, 2024

Summer 2024

Introduction to our research groups

Gender Inequalities and Fertility

SPOTLIGHT | September 11, 2024

Less smoking and better education: Improving U.S. Mortality Trends

A recent study found that behavioral changes, such as a decline in smoking, and social progress, including an expansion of education, have contributed to recent improvements in U.S. mortality. Together, these two factors accounted for 65% of the improvements in mortality. The researchers also identified an increase in psychological distress as a contributing factor to the slowing of mortality improvement in the U.S. during the study period, but most of the slowing remains unexplained.  More

Selected Publications

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)

Coimbra Vieira, C.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:

The value of cultural similarity for predicting migration: evidence from food and drink interests in digital trace data   Population and Development Review, 1–28. (2024)

More Publications

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New Issue 2/2024 available | June 26, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

September 12, 2024

Congratulations Anastasia Lam!

On September 6, 2024, Anastasia Lam successfully defended her thesis "Growing old with multimorbidity: how our differences shape the years we live with disease" at the University of St Andrews, passing the viva without any corrections.  More

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