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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
November 19, 2024 | News | Workshop
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research organized a workshop to clarify the goals, techniques, and applications of machine learning methods for population research. The machine learning theme continues on 25 February with a Süßmilch lecture by Vanessa Didelez. more
November 15, 2024 | News | Award
The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the University of Oxford have honored Henrik Schubert, a doctoral student in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being at the MPIDR and the University of Oxford, for his paper “Too many men? Subnational population imbalances and male childlessness in Finland.” more
November 05, 2024 | Press Release
New research shows a strong correlation between higher levels of female education and lower fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and partners finds that educated women are leading the shift towards smaller family sizes, even influencing the decisions of less educated women around them. The study's innovative forecasting model based on education levels provides policymakers with better tools to understand how women's education can shape future population trends and promote sustainable development. more
October 30, 2024 | News | Symposium
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research recently hosted a symposium to bring together researchers from different disciplines and countries working on scholarly migration and mobility and start a network. A special issue as part of the journal "Quantitative Science Studies" is being planned. more
October 22, 2024 | Press Release
A new study conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), the University of Cologne, GESIS and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health explores how an individual’s financial wealth changes in relation to generational transitions within the family. The results indicate that those who become parents and grandparents later in life, and, particularly if they experience the loss of their parents later, tend to accumulate the most wealth. In contrast, families spanning four generations experience the smallest increase in wealth. A person's financial wealth is deeply interconnected with intergenerational family transitions, such as the birth of grandchildren or the death of parents, and is tied to the family structure as a whole. more
October 17, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
Boris Barron joins the team at the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility. Boris comes from Cornell University, where he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on "Applications of Information Theory to Modelling Complex Systems". While working at MPIDR over the next three years, Boris aims to further refine the modelling process and apply these ideas to systems where they could be most useful. more
October 15, 2024 | News
What's the upper limit of human life expectancy? Researchers tackle this question in a study published in Nature Aging, noting the slowdown in the rate of increase since 1990 and the implausibility of radical life extension this century. However, Dmitri Jdanov and Domantas Jasilionis from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) provide a more hopeful commentary in the same journal, arguing that it is important to consider optimistic scenarios. more
October 14, 2024 | News | Award
Angela Carollo is a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and a member of the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being. She received the Jan M. Hoem Paper Award for her paper “Event history analysis with two time scales. An application to transitions out of cohabitation”, authored by Angela together with Hein Putter, Paul H.C. Eilers and Jutta Gampe. The award was presented to Angela Carollo at the MPIDR Autumn Festival in October. more
October 09, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Department of Digital and Computational Demography welcomes new member Jordan Klein. Jordan comes from Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Demography, specialising in international comparative epidemiology and computational demography. He wrote his dissertation on "Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases and their Social Contexts." While at MPIDR, Jordan plans to continue his research agenda on climate change, emerging infectious diseases and their social drivers and impacts, with a particular focus on the key role of migration, mobility and social inequalities. more