New Publication | March 26, 2024

Do Food and Drink Preferences Influence Migration Flows?

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research used Facebook data to investigate the influence of cultural similarities on migration flows and found that cultural proximity plays as important a role in the choice of destination country as shared language and history.  More

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Understanding the Age and Education Dynamics of Grandmothers from 1950 to 2100

Saroja Adhikari from MPIDR will talk about understanding the age and education dynamics of grandmothers from 1950 to 2100.  More

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Migration and Health Inequalities

Award | March 22, 2024

Another Best Paper Award for Study on Generational Structures of Families

Dr. Bettina Hünteler received the Best Paper Award of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Demographie e.V. on March 21, 2024. She was honored again for her study "A New Perspective on the Generational Structures of Families - Generational Placements over the Life Course.   More

Selected Publications

Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Booth, H.:

Thirty years on: a review of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality   International Journal of Forecasting 39:3, 1033–1049. (2023)

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)

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New Issue 1/2024 available | March 20, 2024

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New Publication | March 15, 2024

Do school grades influence parental support?

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) has researched parents' support behavior in relation to school grades. The study shows that low-income families support their children equally regardless of grades, while parents from higher income groups tend to give more support to children with lower grades. It also raises the question of whether these patterns contribute to low social mobility, as parents of high-achieving children from lower social classes do not have the same resources and strategies at their disposal as parents of low-achieving children from higher social classes.  More

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