April 02, 2025 | Defo News

Inequalities

The new issue (No. 01/2025) of Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, the popular science newsletter with latest research results from demography, has been released.

The Newsletter is available in German only.

"Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand" is a joint publication of the Max Planck Institute for demographic Research (MPIDR), the Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels (RZ), the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).

The topics of the new issue are:

DISADVANTAGED

Migration and life expectancy

Rostock Center for the Study of Demographic Change (RZ)

Life expectancy as people who live in the same place, according to a new study. One might think that stress is the cause. However, the connection seems to be quite different.

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

Monastic life evens out social inequalities

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)

A new study shows that the correlation between education and life expectancy can not only be reduced but even eliminated.

PANDEMIC

COVID-19 excess mortality very unevenly distributed

Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)

Researchers have calculated how life expectancy at birth would have developed in 2020 and 2021 in various European regions if it had not been for the pandemic. The result shows a significant east-west divide.

The newsletter is released four times a year and is available electronically and as a printed version and is free of charge.

It's definitely worth taking a look at the newsletter website - the editors have relaunched the site. The site now has many new features such as full-text search in all issues, all articles are tagged with keywords and all graphics are
can be accessed individually.