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August 28, 2018 | News | Event
the MPIDR will open its doors on Saturday, September 15, from 11 am to 4 pm and invites you cordially to the Max Planck Day. more
August 28, 2018 | News | Interview
Five questions to Christina Bohk-Ewald on her new study evaluating cohort fertility forecasting methods. more
August 16, 2018 | News | New Publication
Men have a higher risk of death than women at every age. As people become old and sick, the absolute survival advantage of women becomes much larger, a new MPIDR study shows. more
August 08, 2018 | News | News
The populations of all European countries are getting older, but not in same way or at the same pace. MPIDR researcher Fanny Kluge has offered a thought experiment: What would a transfer union look like in which the costs carried by the demographically disadvantaged countries is borne by the other countries? more
July 17, 2018 | News | New Publication
Individuals highly educated and on a high income spend less time in hospital. This is well known. But whether these influences grow or shrink with age is still disputed. A new MPIDR study now shows that both may hold. more
July 02, 2018 | Defo News
Read in the new issue of "Demografische Forschung aus erster Hand" how income and social status impacts the duration of hospital stay and why rising life expectancy often goes hand in hand with having a higher risks of disease. more
June 22, 2018 | News | Big Data
How can online data be dealt with properly in demography? MPIDR researchers take part in organizing a workshop on online data at the International Conference on Web and Social Media in Stanford. more
June 09, 2018 | News | Congratulations!
MPIDR founding director James Vaupel received the prestigious EAPS Award for population studies at the European Population Conference 2018 in Brussels. more
June 09, 2018 | News | Congratulations!
MPIDR researcher Tim Riffe received the prestigious "EAPS Outreach Award for Communication in Population Science" at the European Population Conference 2018 in Brussels. more
June 02, 2018 | News
Many MPIDR researchers will present their work at the European Population Conference, which takes place in Brussels from 6-9 June 2018. The Institute will also have an exihibition booth.