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April 12, 2018 | News | News
Kieron Barclay received one of the 2018 Allianz European Demographer Awards for his achievements in population research. more
April 10, 2018 | Defo News
Read in the new issue of “Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand” what family size Spanish teenagers have in mind, how alcohol consumption lowers life expectancy in Middle and Eastern Europe, and how fertility in developing countries evolves. more
March 26, 2018 | News | News
To this day, we do not know whether being poor makes people ill or whether poor health leads to poverty. MPIDR researcher Rasmus Hoffmann has now investigated this relation and found that there is not one answer that applies to all stages of life. more
March 09, 2018 | News | News
On March 9, a paper published in the PNAS by MPIDR director Mikko Myrskylä and Alice Goisis and Berkay Özcan from the London School of Economics on low birth weight and cognitive development has been awarded a prize. more
March 07, 2018 | News | Call for papers
The MPIDR and the Vienna Institute of Demography invite to submit contributions to the 3rd Human Fertility Database Symposium. Deadline for abstract submission is June 1. more
February 12, 2018 | News | News
On February 15, Beatrice Michaelis takes over the management of the Institute. Previously, the 38-year-old coordinated the Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging) for almost two years. more
February 07, 2018 | News | Suessmilch Lecture
On February 27, Philippe Bocquier from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, will give a talk at the MPIDR about internal migration effects on AIDS, tuberculosis and non-communicable disease mortality in Kenya and South Africa. more
February 04, 2018 | News
Emilio Zagheni has been appointed new director of the MPIDR. The 36-year old Italian will head the Institute jointly with Mikko Myrskylä. One of Zagheni’s research priorities will be migration. more
January 16, 2018 | News | Rostock
From January 12 to 24, the “Wissenskarawane” gives school students the opportunity to get insights into the research done at research institutes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On January 17, the MPIDR opens its doors to students. more
January 09, 2018 | News | Suessmilch Lecture
On January 16 Alan Cohen from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, will give a lecture at the MPIDR about biomarker-based metrics of general health and aging. more