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January 21, 2025 | News | Blog@MPIDR
MPIDR scientist Risto Conte Keivabu was part of a Max Planck Society delegation that attended COP29 as an observer last year. In this short blog, he summarises his impressions and insights from the trip. more
January 16, 2025 | News | Russia
Media reports say that many Russians wanted to leave their country after Russia's attack on Ukraine. But data to verify this are not available. A team of researchers has now leveraged a rarely used data source to examine whether this assumption can be proven by science. more
January 15, 2025 | News | Congratulations
Maria Gültzow from the Social Demography Department successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “Digging Deeper: Exploring mechanisms underlying subgroup variation in mental health” at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. more
January 13, 2025 | News
Birth rates are declining in developed countries around the world, a trend often linked with economic and human progress. A study led by Henrik-Alexander Schubert of the MPIDR reveals that fertility rates can actually increase at high levels of human development, a pattern known as the "J-shape." However, this relationship appears to have shifted after 2010, possibly influenced by the 2007/08 economic recession and changing societal values. more
December 18, 2024 | Defo News
In this issue of Demografischen Forschung Aus Erster Hand, all three articles are dedicated to the topic of migration. The first article examines the extent to which Russian women actually intend to leave their country following the Russian war against Ukraine. The second article looks at how people from wealthy societies fare when they emigrate. In the third article, you will find out how inter-ethnic partnerships differ in terms of the number of children compared to partnerships where both partners come from the same country. more
December 18, 2024 | News | Workshop
For the second time, the researchers of the Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health met for their annual MaxHel Center meeting at the beginning of November, this year in Rostock. A total of 40 people from MPIDR and the University of Helsinki took part in the two-day event. more
December 18, 2024 | News | Season´s Greetings 2024
A look back shows that in 2024, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) saw many accomplishments, scientific gatherings, and reasons to celebrate at the Institute. more
December 17, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Lifespan Inequalities research group welcomes Josephine Jackisch as a new member. Josephine is a social epidemiologist who comes to MPIDR from the Population Health Laboratory at the University of Fribourg. She completed her PhD at the Centre for Health Equity Studies (Karolinska Institutet/ Stockholm University) in Sweden, where she studied the role of childhood adversity in premature mortality and health inequalities. more
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