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December 12, 2024 | News | Award
MPIDR affiliated scientist Andrés Felipe Castro Torres and his Co-Author Edith Yolanda Gutierrez-Vazquez are awarded with the 2023 Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year prize for his paper “Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America”. more
December 05, 2024 | News | Award
Since 2014, the Journal of Population Economics has annually awarded the Kuznets Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics. This year, the prize goes to Emma Xianhua Zai (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research & GLO) and Peter Eibich (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL & GLO). They received the Best Paper Award 2025 for their Open Access article "Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare". more
December 05, 2024 | News
A new study by the University of Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) has examined the fertility trends of same-sex female couples in Finland. The data shows a significant increase in the likelihood of these couples having a child within five years of registering their partnership, rising from 20% to 45% for partnerships registered between 2002 and 2016. This trend was particularly pronounced among couples with a higher level of education, while the probability decreased among couples with a lower level of education. Despite supportive Finnish legislation, large disparities in access to parenthood persist, highlighting the need to eliminate remaining barriers to childbearing, particularly in the context of falling fertility rates. more
December 03, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Max Planck Institue for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is happy to welcome Maren Koch to the administrative team. Maren will support the Laboratories of Migration and Mobility and Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being as foreign language secretary. more
November 29, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
Brooke Livo started working as Summer Incubator Officer at the Department of Digital and Computational Demography. She is looking forward to meeting new people from all different fields and backgrounds and to advance her creative side a bit more. In her free time Brooke likes to do crafts. more
November 28, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Research Group: Migration and Health Inequalities welcomes Songyun Shi. He worked as a research assistant while completing his PhD at the University of Hong Kong. While staying with us for the next two years, he will focus on studying health disparities between immigrants and non-immigrants in the European context. Besides demography he is fascinated by architecture, especially modern design. more
November 27, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The administrative team at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is pleased to welcome Susanne Draheim. Susanne will support the administration as a clerk for purchasing and construction. more
November 26, 2024 | News | Latest Publications
Find out what new publications have been released in autumn 2024. more
November 25, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-being welcomes Abigail Tun Mendicuti to its team. Abi has been affiliated with MPIDR since the beginning of her doctoral studies. She comes to MPIDR from the Population Research Center at the University of Groningen. Before that, Abigail was part of the European Doctoral School of Demography 2021-2022. Abigail worked as a research assistant at El Colegio de Mexico, where her interest in migration research began. more
November 21, 2024 | News | SPOTLIGHT
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A current study by Prof. L. H. Lumey (Columbia University, New York) and Dr. Nataliia Levchuk (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPDIR) / Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies, Kyiv) et al. published in Science on August 9 examined the long-term effects of prenatal famine on adult health. The researchers analyzed data from people born before, during and after the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine and found that those born during the famine had a two-fold higher risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. The findings highlight the importance of maternal nutrition in early pregnancy and prenatal care, especially in times of crisis. more