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May 14, 2025 | Press Release

Where the Brightest Minds in Science Moved

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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) expanded the regional data included in the Scholarly Migration Database to examine how scientists move internationally across countries and internally within countries. The team found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. When a region within a country is a popular destination for scientists, they come from both within the country and from abroad. Less attractive destinations see more complex patterns. more

May 12, 2025 | News | Recommended Reading

Birth Seasonality: Eastern Germany Realigns With the West After Reunification

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There are times of the year when more children are born than usual. In his latest publication, Risto Conte Keivabu, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), examines how the seasonal distribution of births in East and West Germany has changed between 1946 and 2017, and whether German reunification was associated with a change in the seasonality of births. more

May 09, 2025 | News

Review of the Rostock Open Science Workshop 2025

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In March 2025, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) hosted the second Rostock Open Science Workshop in Rostock, Germany. The two-day event brought together researchers, scientists, and experts from around the world to discuss and learn about open science practices, with a focus on making research results and materials freely available to everyone. The workshop aimed to increase knowledge sharing, transparency and reproducibility of published results. more

May 08, 2025 | News | New Faces at MPIDR

Welcome, Antonino Polizzi!

MPIDR/Ruhland

Antonino Polizzi has been a researcher in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography since February. He will defend his doctoral thesis in sociology at the University of Oxford. In Rostock, he finds the astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church particularly interesting. more

May 07, 2025 | News | Award

DGD Young Scientists Award for Anna-Kathleen Piereth

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The DGD Young Scientists Award is presented at the annual conference of the German Association for Demography. This year, Anna-Kathleen Piereth from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) won the award in the category "Best Master's Thesis". She received the award in March 2025 at the DGD's annual conference in Wiesbaden for her master's thesis "The Demography of Inpatient Care: Insights from the German Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) Statistics". more

April 23, 2025 | News | Spotlight

Women with pregnancy losses show persistent health decline

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In his recently published study, Alessandro Di Nallo, Research Scientist at the MPIDR examines how pregnancy outcomes — live births and pregnancy losses  — affect women’s physical health over time. The findings indicate that while physical health declines for all women after pregnancy, this decline is more pronounced and persistent among those who experienced a pregnancy loss.  more

April 03, 2025 | Press Release

Gender Role Beliefs Shape Desire for Parenthood

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New research from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Radboud Universiteit demonstrates how attitudes towards gender roles shape family planning decisions. They conclude that low fertility rates in egalitarian societies reflect more than just practical barriers to parenthood, but may signal a fundamental shift in  social values and life priorities. more

April 02, 2025 | Defo News

Inequalities

In this issue of Demografischen Forschung Aus Erster Hand, all three articles are dedicated to the topic of inequality. more

April 02, 2025 | Press Release

Low Fertility and Economic Sustainability

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A recently published study by Mikko Myrskylä, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany shows how  money spent on education compensates for the influence of low birth rates on long-term economic sustainability. Myrskylä and his co-authors conducted a simulation using Finish data to study how the economy shrinks when fertility is very low, and how investments in education can compensate for the smaller birth cohort size. They find that such investments increase the productivity of the workforce which compensates for its smaller size. more

March 24, 2025 | News | Award

IUSSP Early Career Award 2025 Europe for Diego Alburez-Gutierrez

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MPIDR research group leader Diego Alburez-Gutierrez receives the IUSSP Early Career Award 2025 Europe. The IUSSP Early Career Awards were established by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) in 2023 for each of the world regions. The award recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to the development of our discipline and the wider field of population studies by early career researchers in the different regions of the world, and promotes the global visibility of their achievements. more

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