Research Visit | June 04, 2025

Summer Incubator Program 2025 starts

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is organizing the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program, a three-month research visit (from June 2 – August 22, 2025) for a diverse group of PhD students. More

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Incubator 2025 Tutorial

Enrique Acosta and Risto Conte Keivabu from the MPIDR are giving a tutorial as part of the 2025 Summer Incubator Programme. More

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Conference | May 28, 2025

MPIDR@PopDays 2025

New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

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June 02, 2025

Rethink Fertility and Gender Inequality in a Changing World

Recap of the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference in Rostock: In March 2025, researchers from six continents gathered at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) for the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference in Rostock. The scholars came together to debate and advance the understanding of fertility, gender inequality, social stratification, and the growing complexity of family life. More

Selected Publications

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Unequal weathering: how immigrants’ health advantage vanishes over the life-course Journal of Migration and Health 11:100303, 1–11. (2025)

Dańko, M. J.; Wiśniowski, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.; Zagheni, E.:

Assessing the quality of data on international migration flows in Europe: the case of undercounting Migration Studies 12:2, 1–21. (2024)

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Press Release | April 02, 2025

Low Fertility and Economic Sustainability

SPOTLIGHT | March 13, 2025

A Difficult Childhood Increases the Risk of Dying Early

SPOTLIGHT | March 11, 2025

Level of Education and Place of Residence Influence Fertility Rates

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Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys

In a paper recently published in Demography, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)) and his colleagues, Maike van Damme and Andres Castro Torres (Centro de Estudios Demográficos (CED)), compared survey data and kinship models in order to estimate the kin networks of older adults. They found that the two methods produced remarkably similar results, providing a solid foundation for continued work in kinship demography. More