Welcome | January 25, 2021

Aliakbar Akbaritabar is new researcher at the Digital and Computational Demography Lab

What networks do scientists form to carry out their scientific work? That's what Ali Akbaritabar, a new researcher at the MPIDR, wants to find out. What he likes best about Rostock is its proximity to the sea – reminding him fondly of Brest, the French coastal city where he opted for a career driven by science. More

February

Online Invited Seminar Talk

Machine-Assisted Human Decision Making

Nina Grgić-Hlača from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods discusses how machine learning based decision aids influence human decisions. More

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Media Coverage | May 15, 2020

Covid-19 experts at MPIDR

Max Planck Society

Introduction to our research groups

Statistical Demography

New Framework | January 13, 2021

Migration Estimation Over Varying Time Scales

Estimating migration over varying time scales is now possible with a new framework that Emilio Zagheni and colleagues introduce in their recent paper in “Demography.” More

Selected Publications

Fiorio, L.; Zagheni, E.; Abel, G. L.; Hill, J.; Pestre, G.; Letouzé, E.; Cai, J.:

Analyzing the effect of time in migration measurement using geo-referenced digital trace data Demography, 1–24. (2021)

Mehta, N. K.; Abrams, L. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

US life expectancy stalls due to cardiovascular disease, not drug deaths Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:13, 6998–7000. (2020)

More Publications

What is demography?

Glossary of Demographic Terms

Max Planck Society

Reconciliation of work and family

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

Covid-19-Pandemic | April 14, 2020

Research Related to Covid-19 at MPIDR

In short statements, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) explain the issues they are currently investigating in connection with the Covid 19 pandemic. +++Latest update: December, 8 2020+++ More

Introduction

What is Demography?

New Issue 4/2020 available

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Grant | January 11, 2021

COVID-19 Database Receives Funding from Volkswagen Foundation

Researchers at the data lab developed the STMF database – providing internationally comparable Covid-19 mortality data. To continue this timely work they have now received funding from the German Volkswagen Foundation. More