News & Press Releases
All
Press Releases
News
Defo News
January 21, 2026 | News | Overview
Here is an overview of the latest reading recommendations for papers published by scientists at the MPIDR. more
January 15, 2026 | News
Family research usually focuses on the nuclear family, i.e. the father, mother and children. Relationships with other relatives have hardly been studied to date. Yet these relationships play an important role. more
December 18, 2025 | Defo News
In the first article of this issue of Demografische Forschung aus Erster Hand, you will learn why family research should also focus more on relatives outside the nuclear family. The second article deals with the question of whether and when refugee women and men have children. The last article deals with palliative care for seriously ill people, which varies greatly depending on the illness. more
December 18, 2025 | News | Season´s Greetings 2025
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) looks back on an eventful and successful year. We wish all MPIDR employees, research partners, and supporters a peaceful holiday season and a happy New Year. We look forward to 2026 and to seeing and getting to know new and familiar faces at MPIDR, at PAA 2026, EPC 2026, and many other events. more
December 16, 2025 | News | Letter to the Editor PNAS
MPIDR researcher Jordan Klein publishes Letter to the Editor in PNAS. A recent PNAS study uses Facebook data to estimate monthly international migration flows worldwide. The authors report that global migration fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, declining by an estimated 64 percent in 2020, driven in part by the imposition of border controls, before rebounding strongly in 2022. Klein, together with Ingmar Weber have now published a Letter to the Editor in PNAS that brings these findings into conversation with the work of Chi et al. more
December 16, 2025 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Laboratory of Fertility & Wellbeing welcomes Jiseon Baek as a new research scientist. Jiseon is enthusiastic about investigating disparities in reproductive outcomes. She will defend her PhD thesis on the fertility of immigrant generations in the United Kingdom at the University of St Andrews in January 2026. Before her PhD, her research interests were developed through her Master's degrees in Social Welfare at Seoul Women’s University and Social Research at the University of Edinburgh. She is excited to pursue her research on reproductive life courses at MPIDR. more
December 15, 2025 | News
Held each December, the Annual Academy of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science is a welcome highlight at the end of the year. When the weather outside turns cold or just mostly rainy, more than 100 IMPRS-PHDS doctoral students, alumni, faculty members, and friends gather in the cozy MPIDR auditorium. more
December 09, 2025 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Laboratory of Fertility and Wellbeing welcomes Aijie Zhang as a PhD student. Her doctoral research will focus on fertility dynamics and patterns in high-income countries. She joins us after completing her Master's degree in Economics at the University of Bonn. Beyond this primary focus, her academic interests also include institutions, gender, inequality and criminology. more
December 08, 2025 | News | Workshop
In mid-November, numerous scientists from around the world gathered at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock to discuss the topic of “Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics” at a workshop initiated by Risto Conte Keivabu, Ebru Sanlitürk, Daniela Perrotta, Emilio Zagheni and Raya Muttarak (University of Bologna) and the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Dynamics under Global Conflict and Climate Change. more
December 05, 2025 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Research Group Labor Demography welcomes Jan Einhoff as a new research scientist. He will also be part of the MaxHel Center. Jan completed his PhD studies in sociology within the DYNAMICS research training group at Humboldt University in Berlin and was a visiting researcher at Nuffield College in Oxford, the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and the Finnish Centre for Pensions in Helsinki. He holds degrees from Bocconi University, the Hertie School, and the University of Mannheim. more