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December 19, 2016
A low birth weight is considered a risk factor for decreased cognitive abilities in later life. This risk factor now seems to be dissolving; it is much less pronounced in younger birth cohorts. more
December 16, 2016
On December 15, former MPIDR PhD student László Németh successfully defended his thesis at the University of Rostock. more
November 28, 2016 | Suessmilch Lecture
On December 1, Joel E. Cohen from the Rockefeller University, NY, USA, will give a talk at the MPIDR entitled "Evaluating multi-regional population projections with Taylor's law of mean-variance scaling and its generalization". more
November 15, 2016 | Call for Papers
In 2017 the Human Mortality Database Project celebrates its 15th anniversary. On this occasion a symposium will be held on May 22 to 23, 2017 in Berlin. more
November 09, 2016
In June 2017 the MPIDR hosts the Rostock Retreat on data visualization. The retreat aims to bring together people interested in the visualization of population data. Applications will be accepted until January 15, 2017. more
November 02, 2016 | RAPHIS
The database RAPHIS has gone online recently. It contains individual data from censuses, church registries and death registers in Rostock from 1800 to 1905. more
October 19, 2016 | Demografische Forschung aus Erster Hand
Over the last century, life expectancy rose on average by three months a year. As this trend is mainly attributable to life expectancy gains among more educated people people are getting older. This shows that there is still considerable room for for an increase in the average life expectancy to continue to improve. more
October 09, 2016 | News
On October 9, 2016 MPIDR researcher Angelo Lorenti has been awarded the “Valeria Solesin” prize by the Italian Society of Statistics for his thesis. The prize is endowed with 1000 Euro. more
September 29, 2016
On September 27, 2016, MPIDR PhD student Robert Stelter successfully defended his PhD at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; and at the University of Rostock. In his work, Robert Stelter studied incentives to procreate from three different perspectives. more
September 08, 2016 | News
MPIDR-researcher Alyson van Raalte has been awarded a grant of up to 1.48 million euro from the European Research Council for a research project on inequalities in ages at death. more