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November 05, 2018
The Human Mortality Database Project team invites contributions to the 5th HMD Symposium. more
October 26, 2018
On October 26, 2018 Marcus Ebeling successfully defended his doctoral thesis with summa cum laude at the University of Rostock. more
October 23, 2018
In times of demographic change, raising the retirement age is often discussed. But the length of our working lives depends to a large extent on how continuously we work. In Spain, for example, working life expectancy fell sharply during the economic crisis, a study by the MPIDR has shown. more
October 05, 2018 | Big Data
The MPIDR is organizing and hosting the first Symposium on Digital Demography (Rostock, October 17-18, 2018). more
October 01, 2018 | Suessmilch Lecture
On October 9th, Herbert L. Smith from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, will give a talk at the MPIDR about Age Period Cohort Analysis. more
September 04, 2018 | New Publication
Young adults experience increased mortality, known as the accident hump. But not all of these deaths are accidents. And some of them are due to senescence. A new method allows for decomposing and visualizing what’s really in the hump. more
August 28, 2018 | Event
the MPIDR will open its doors on Saturday, September 15, from 11 am to 4 pm and invites you cordially to the Max Planck Day. more
August 28, 2018 | Interview
Five questions to Christina Bohk-Ewald on her new study evaluating cohort fertility forecasting methods. more
August 16, 2018 | New Publication
Men have a higher risk of death than women at every age. As people become old and sick, the absolute survival advantage of women becomes much larger, a new MPIDR study shows. more
August 08, 2018 | News
The populations of all European countries are getting older, but not in same way or at the same pace. MPIDR researcher Fanny Kluge has offered a thought experiment: What would a transfer union look like in which the costs carried by the demographically disadvantaged countries is borne by the other countries? more