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October 28, 2014 | News | New Research Group
From February 1, 2015, Anna Oksuzyan will build up a new Max Planck Research Group. The physician deals with the question of why women and men have different life expectancies. more
October 16, 2014 | News
Mikko Myrskylä has been appointed the new director of the MPIDR and is now heading the institute together with its founding director, James W. Vaupel. Myrskylä is happy to return to Rostock and advance research in social demography. more
October 16, 2014 | News | New Publication
While Danish women tend to wait until they are well-established professionally and have a secure income before having children, the opposite is the case for German women. more
October 15, 2014 | Press Release
Each additional euro eastern Germans received in benefits from pensions and public health insurance after reunification accounted for three additional hours of life expectancy, a new study by MPIDR researcher Tobias Vogt shows. more
October 07, 2014 | Defo News
Read in the new issue of "Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand” about the impact of unemployment on family planning and the life-expectancy status of early retirees. more
October 02, 2014 | News | Dossier
The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago. Life in eastern and western Germany has now converged in many areas, but differences remain. In this dossier we have put together the East-West issue addressed by research at the MPIDR. more
September 29, 2014 | News | New Publication
The new book by MPIDR-researcher Frans Willekens, "Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R", is a step-by-step procedure to investigate life histories using descriptive methods and statistical modeling as well as "R", a free software programming language for statistical computing. more
September 19, 2014 | News
MPIDR-researcher Michaela Kreyenfeld was invited to a meeting of the German-speaking European heads of state held in Bad Doberan and Rostock on September 18. She delivered a presentation on the development of birth rates in German speaking countries. more
September 15, 2014 | News | New book
The PhD of former MPIDR-Researcher Nora Sánchez Gassen has now been published as a book. She looked at the extent to which demographic changes in Germany have an influence on the composition of the electorate. more
September 09, 2014 | News
Had there been no reunification, in 2011 East German men on average would have died 6.2 years earlier than in unified Germany. Women would have lived 4.2 fewer years. These are the results of model calculations by MPIDR-researcher Tobias Vogt. more