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November 22, 2019 | Database Update
Scientists who want to do research on very old people can roll up their sleeves: The International Database on Longevity provides new data sets from 14 countries. more
November 19, 2019 | Apply for Research Fellowship
We invite Expressions of Interest proposals to participate in the Marie S. Curie Individual Fellowships scheme with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) as host institution. more
November 08, 2019 | Workshop
The MPIDR organizes a workshop on migration data and models, at the 11th Social Informatics Conference in Doha, Qatar, on November 18th, 2019. more
November 07, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture
On November 12th, Alastair Leyland from the University of Glasgow, will give a lecture titled "Measuring health inequalities – and why we struggle to reduce them" as part of the Suessmilch Lecture series. more
November 07, 2019 | First Annual Academy
The first Annual Academy of the new doctoral program IMPRS-PHDS was held at the MPIDR at the beginning of November. 22 doctoral students form the first cohort of the program. more
October 31, 2019 | New Publication
Long overlooked and recently discovered through a detailed data analysis: young and middle-aged men and women in England and Wales have significantly higher mortality rates than the same age groups in comparable countries since the early 2000s. more
October 28, 2019 | Rostock Open Science Workshop
The Rostock Open Science Workshop introduced demographic researchers to the tools and practices of open science. Now they are available for everyone. more
October 17, 2019 | New Publication
Does having children make us live longer? The numbers say yes, but the reasons are not yet understood. There somehow seems to be a link between people’s life expectancy and the number of children they have. more
October 16, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture
On October 22nd, 2019, Kelly Musick from Cornell University, will give a lecture on couples’ earnings following first child birth in the US, the UK and Germany and resulting gender equality. more
October 15, 2019 | Succesful Workshop
Can science reduce gender inequalities in health? This is one of the many questions that was posed at the MPIDR-conference “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Gender Gaps in Health and Mortality” in Italy in early October. more