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May 22, 2019 | Workshop Announcement

Migration data and models for a better world

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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) organizes a workshop on migration data and models, at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City on August 9th, 2019. more

May 14, 2019 | New Publication

What musical taste reveals about cultural identity

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Using Facebook data on musical preferences, MPIDR researchers have shown in a new study that immigrants in the US adapt to the culture of their new homeland in very diverse ways. more

May 14, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture

Understanding Social Change: New Methods for Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

On May 21, Christopher Winship from the Harvard University gave a talk about new methods for age-period-cohort analysis at the MPIDR. more

May 08, 2019 | Conference Announcement

Human Mortality Database Symposium

The Human Mortality Database Project team is organizing the 5th Human Mortality Database Symposium. The Symposium and the Satellite Meeting are scheduled to take place on 13-15th of May, 2019 at the Harnack Haus in Berlin. more

April 16, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture

Life after death: The scale and salience of mortality exposure in sub-Saharan Africa

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On April 23, 2019, Emily Smith-Greenaway from the University of Southern California, gave a lecture about life after death: The scale and salience of mortality exposure in sub-Saharan Africa. more

April 12, 2019

Immigrants in Italy: Arriving healthy, staying healthy?

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Two researchers from the MPIDR have shown that the health of migrants in Italy adapts over time to that of their new compatriots. The worse the socio-economic situation of the immigrants is, the faster this convergence is. more

April 01, 2019 | PAA 2019

MPIDR at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2019

Several MPIDR researchers will present their work at the Meeting of the Population Association of America, which takes place in Austin, Texas, USA from April 10–13, 2019. The Institute will also have an exihibition booth. more

March 15, 2019 | News

Marcus Ebeling was awarded the Young Investigator Award of the German Demographic Association

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At this year's annual meeting of the German Society for Demography, which took place in Bamberg from March, 13 to 15,  2019, MPIDR researcher Marcus Ebeling was awarded the Young Investigator Award. more

March 12, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture

Equivalence scales and the distribution of household income: do we know what we´re doing?

On March 19, Martin Werding from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum gave a lecture about equivalence scales and the distribution of household income at the MPIDR. more

January 22, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture

Leveraging Genetics to Inform Social Demography

On 29 January 2019, Dalton Conley from Princeton University  gave a talk at the MPIDR about sociogenomic research. more

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