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June 04, 2025 | Research Visit

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program 2025

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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 2 – August 22, 2025) for a diverse group of PhD students. more

June 02, 2025

Rethink Fertility and Gender Inequality in a Changing World

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Recap of the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference in Rostock: In March 2025, researchers from six continents gathered at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) for the conference in Rostock. The scholars came together to debate and advance the understanding of fertility, gender inequality, social stratification, and the growing complexity of family life. more

May 28, 2025 | Conference

MPIDR@PopDays2025 in Cagliari, Italy

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The MPIDR will be participating in PopDays 2025 in Cagliari, Italy. From 4 to 6 June 2025, our scientists will be presenting their research there. more

May 26, 2025 | Recommended Reading

Estimating Kinship Size of Older Adults in Europe With Models and Surveys

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In a paper recently published in Demography, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and his colleagues compared survey data and kinship models in order to estimate the kin networks of older adults. They found that the two methods produced remarkably similar results, providing a solid foundation for continued work in kinship demography. more

May 22, 2025 | LinkedIn Data Analyzed

Are There Differences Between Men and Women When Moving for a Job?

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A team at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) examined professional migration of men and women in 48 countries using data from LinkedIn’s Advertising and Recruiter platform. The team found that, although men aspire to migrate more often than women, globally, as many women as men migrate for a job. more

May 12, 2025 | Recommended Reading

Birth Seasonality: Eastern Germany Realigns With the West After Reunification

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There are times of the year when more children are born than usual. In his latest publication, Risto Conte Keivabu, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), examines how the seasonal distribution of births in East and West Germany has changed between 1946 and 2017, and whether German reunification was associated with a change in the seasonality of births. more

May 09, 2025

Review of the Rostock Open Science Workshop 2025

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In March 2025, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) hosted the second Rostock Open Science Workshop in Rostock, Germany. The two-day event brought together researchers, scientists, and experts from around the world to discuss and learn about open science practices, with a focus on making research results and materials freely available to everyone. The workshop aimed to increase knowledge sharing, transparency and reproducibility of published results. more

May 08, 2025 | New Faces at MPIDR

Welcome, Antonino Polizzi!

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Antonino Polizzi has been a researcher in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography since February. He will defend his doctoral thesis in sociology at the University of Oxford. In Rostock, he finds the astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church particularly interesting. more

May 07, 2025 | Award

DGD Young Scientists Award for Anna-Kathleen Piereth

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The DGD Young Scientists Award is presented at the annual conference of the German Association for Demography. This year, Anna-Kathleen Piereth from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) won the award in the category "Best Master's Thesis". She received the award in March 2025 at the DGD's annual conference in Wiesbaden for her master's thesis "The Demography of Inpatient Care: Insights from the German Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) Statistics". more

April 23, 2025 | Spotlight

Women with pregnancy losses show persistent health decline

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In his recently published study, Alessandro Di Nallo, Research Scientist at the MPIDR examines how pregnancy outcomes — live births and pregnancy losses  — affect women’s physical health over time. The findings indicate that while physical health declines for all women after pregnancy, this decline is more pronounced and persistent among those who experienced a pregnancy loss.  more

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