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June 05, 2024 | Press Release
A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) shows that, in contrast to Finland, from midlife mothers in Italy and the US work significantly fewer years than fathers, especially if they have two and more children. The researchers highlight that better support and work opportunities for mothers not only improves their retirement security, but also helps stabilize pension systems. more
June 04, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
We are happy to welcome Doreen Sarah Pilz. She supports the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS) as Secretary. more
June 03, 2024 | News | Research Visit
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is organizing the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program, a three-month research visit (from June 3 – August 23, 2024) for a diverse group of PhD students. more
May 24, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
Sonja Dorsch will join our Director Emilio Zagheni and the team in the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography as Foreign Language Secretary. more
May 23, 2024 | News | Workshop
The recent availability of massive amounts of digital data have revolutionized research on migration and mobility. That is why this event brings together researchers to present and discuss the use of innovative digital data sources, new methodologies and empirical findings. more
May 21, 2024 | News
Carla Rowold, who joined the Laboratory of Population Health in April, has successfully defended her PhD thesis “An accumulation of gender inequalities in old age? Exploring life course- and gender-sensitive approaches for analysing Gender Pension Gaps” at the University of Oxford. more
May 21, 2024 | News
Steffen Peters successfully defended his Phd thesis about “Who starts a family? The prospective association between psychological factors and family formation processes” at the Stockholm University. more
May 15, 2024 | Press Release
This recent study by Silvia Loi and colleagues examines how life events like job loss and divorce affect the health of immigrants using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. They find that immigrants experience more rapid declines in health as they age. Moreover, they find that job loss has a stronger and more long-lasting impact on the health of immigrants, especially men. more
April 12, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Laboratory of Population Health and Research Group Labor Demography welcomes Carla Rowold as a new team member. Carla's research interests range from gender and age inequalities, life course sociology, social demography to family and retirement policy.
Previously, she was a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Oxford. more
April 10, 2024 | News | Call for Papers
Advances in computational power and statistical algorithms, in conjunction with the increasing availability of large datasets, have led to a Cambrian explosion of machine learning (ML) methods. For population researchers, these methods are useful not only for predicting population dynamics but also as tools to improve causal inference tasks. However, the rapid evolution of this literature, coupled with terminological disparities from conventional approaches, renders these methods enigmatic and arduous for many population researchers to grasp. more