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
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)
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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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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