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January 07, 2020
Enrique Acosta from the Laboratory of Population Health defended his doctoral thesis with the mention of “exceptional” and was recommended for the Dean´s list of honor at the Département de démographie at the Université de Montréal. more
December 19, 2019 | Season’s Greetings
We wish all our employees, alumni, and those associated with our institute happy holidays and a wonderful start into 2020. more
December 12, 2019 | New Publication
Research scientist Jennifer Caputo shows positive long-term relationships between working at midlife and health over many following years, even past retirement age. more
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 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, gave 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