September 25, 2025 | Defo News

Poverty, education, and family conflicts

The new issue (No. 03/2025) 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.

The topics of the new issue are:

STANDARDS OF LIVING

Measuring Poverty Differently

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)

Being poor is about more than just having little money. To better measure poverty, scientists have developed a system that considers many aspects of poverty.

SIMULATION

Education Stabilizes the Pension System

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)

Investing in education can help to offset some of the negative effects of low birth rates.

INTEGRATION

Conflicts with Parents and Partners

Rostocker Zentrums zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels (RZ)

Although partnerships between people with and without a migrant background are generally seen as a sign of integration and social rapprochement, a new study shows that this statement should be viewed more nuanced.

"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 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.