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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
August 30, 2014 | News
MPIDR researcher Annette Baudisch has been appointed professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. more
July 24, 2014 | Press Release
Births before marriage are common in East Germany, but not so in the West. The historical roots of this divide date back to well before 1945. It will stay for long. more
July 14, 2014 | News | New Publication
Women in Germany have much fewer children than females in neighboring states mainly due to the lack of child care services. This shows a comparison with the German-speaking region in neighboring Belgium done by MPIDR scientists. more
July 08, 2014 | News
On July 8, Sonja Bastin has successfully defended her dissertation. Her PhD work focuses on the life-course of lone mothers. more
July 03, 2014 | News | STORIFY
At the end of June, about 800 demographers from across the globe gathered at the European Population Conference in Budapest. We have collected comments about the conference posted via social media. more
July 01, 2014 | Defo News
Read in the new issue of “Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand” how education affects national economic national growth and how scientists have shown that a lack in child day care provision negatively affects the birth rate. more
June 28, 2014 | News | European Population Conference
Two MPIDR researchers, Annette Baudisch and Frans Willekens, have received awards at this year's European Population Conference. more