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July 08, 2025 | Recommended Reading
In a paper published in November 2024, Sanna Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, Mikko Myrskylä, and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and University of Helsinki examined the relationship between depression, as measured by antidepressant use, and childlessness. Using Finnish total population register data for cohorts born between 1977 and 1980, they found a positive association between depression and childlessness. more
July 03, 2025
We are happy to announce that the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) has recently created the Scientific Panel Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities, chaired by Diego Alburez-Gutierrez from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). The steering committee of the panel includes Saroja Adhikari and Bettina Hünteler (MPIDR), Prof. Luca Maria Pesando (New York University Abu Dhabi), Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan (National University of Singapore) and Ashton Verdery (Pennsylvania State University). more
June 30, 2025 | Congratulations
In May, Antonino Polizzi successfully defended his doctoral thesis, "The Causes and the Consequences of Growing Life Expectancy Shortfalls" at the University of Oxford. more
June 25, 2025 | SPOTLIGHT
In the US, the later you retire, the higher your monthly pension benefit will be. Researchers have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding life expectancy. The results show that delaying retirement poses a particular financial risk to men and low-income groups, and that different decisions are necessary depending on individual circumstances and uncertainty. more
June 20, 2025 | Recommended Reading
Can we predict Steph Curry’s next move on the court?
Last year, Boris Barron started at MPIDR as a research scientist in the Migration and Mobility Department. He is a physicist and specializes in modeling complex systems. While at Cornell University, he and his colleagues developed a methodology to analyze detailed positional information of basketball players in NBA games. Their approach adapted a physics-based approach, Density Functional Fluctuation Theory (DFFT), to provide a general framework to infer subtle aspects of the game. more
June 04, 2025 | 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 2 – August 22, 2025) for a diverse group of PhD students. more
June 02, 2025
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
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
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
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