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September 17, 2020 | News | Welcome to the MPIDR
In September five PhD students from five countries started their research projects at the MPIDR in Rostock. They work in fields like population health, fertility and digital demography. more
September 16, 2020 | News | Welcome to the MPIDR
How do families support each other across generations with monetary and material gifts in different countries? Ole Hexel, new researcher at MPIDR, is investigating these and other questions. Born and raised in Rostock, he loves the Baltic Sea at all seasons. more
September 14, 2020 | News | Call for Proposals
We seek proposals for manuscripts assessing how and why health and mortality of adults in the US continues to lag behind their counterparts in other high-income countries. The authors will present the manuscripts at a conference in May or June 2021. more
September 03, 2020 | News | Research funding
Mathias Lerch receives a 1.49 million Euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to conduct the project “Migration in cities of the global South: drivers, interactions and socio-demographic consequences” (MIC). more
September 01, 2020 | Press Release
Sharing is caring: the more resources people share within a society, the better for health and longevity. Fanny Kluge and Tobias Vogt analyzed data for 34 countries on all continents and found a strong association between the amount of money shared between generations and longevity. more
August 27, 2020 | News | Welcome to the MPIDR
Investigating variation in the fertility of individuals and groups is D. Susie Lee's field of research. The new researcher in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-being is also interested in good science communication. more
August 21, 2020 | Press Release
Over the past 20 years or so, the risk for US men and women of suffering from cognitive impairment and dementia has increased. This is the conclusion of a new study by MPIDR researchers and colleagues that takes into account learning effects when repeating the same dementia test. more
August 20, 2020 | Press Release
In their recently published paper Emilio Zagheni and colleagues present a statistical framework to combine social media data with traditional survey data. They produce timely ‘nowcasts’ of migrant stocks by state in the United States. more
August 11, 2020 | News | Interview
Jessica Nisén, research scientist in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being, assessed the relationship between women’s fertility, their education, and the economic development on a regional level in 15 European countries. In this interview, she explains her findings, why she looked into the topic, and why register data are a valuable source. more
July 28, 2020 | Press Release
More than 24,000 individuals reported themselves to be at least 100 years old in Brazil in 2000, according to census data. Researchers have long been skeptical about these official figures. Now Marília Nepomuceno presents more realistic numbers. She concludes an extensive over enumeration of centenarians over the whole of the 20thcentury. more