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November 29, 2018 | Press Release
In many countries, the proportion of people dying in hospital has been decreasing for years. Until now, this was thought to apply to all age groups. A new study now draws attention to disturbing exceptions. more
November 19, 2018 | News | News
The number of young adults living in their own household has dropped dramatically in the United States, and a growing proportion of young people will move back in with their parents. These “boomerang” moves are associated with an increase in depressive symptoms, a recent MPIDR study suggests. more
November 12, 2018 | News | Suessmilch Lecture
On November 20, Ann Berrington from the University of Southampton, UK, will give a talk about Social Polarisation of Family Experience in the UK. more
November 05, 2018 | News
The Human Mortality Database Project team invites contributions to the 5th HMD Symposium. more
October 26, 2018 | News
On October 26, 2018 Marcus Ebeling successfully defended his doctoral thesis with summa cum laude at the University of Rostock. more
October 23, 2018 | News
In times of demographic change, raising the retirement age is often discussed. But the length of our working lives depends to a large extent on how continuously we work. In Spain, for example, working life expectancy fell sharply during the economic crisis, a study by the MPIDR has shown. more
October 09, 2018 | Defo News
Read about what factors determine whether separated fathers maintain regular contact with their children and how an economic crisis affects working life expectancy in the new of issue of “Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand.” more
October 05, 2018 | News | Big Data
The MPIDR is organizing and hosting the first Symposium on Digital Demography (Rostock, October 17-18, 2018). more
October 01, 2018 | News | Suessmilch Lecture
On October 9th, Herbert L. Smith from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, will give a talk at the MPIDR about Age Period Cohort Analysis. more
September 04, 2018 | News | New Publication
Young adults experience increased mortality, known as the accident hump. But not all of these deaths are accidents. And some of them are due to senescence. A new method allows for decomposing and visualizing what’s really in the hump. more