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October 16, 2014

Mikko Myrskylä is the new MPIDR director

Mikko Myrskylä has been appointed the new director of the MPIDR and is now heading the institute together with its founding director, James W. Vaupel. Myrskylä is happy to return to Rostock and advance research in social demography. more

October 16, 2014 | New Publication

High Income, Many Children

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While Danish women tend to wait until they are well-established professionally and have a secure income before having children, the opposite is the case for German women. more

October 02, 2014 | Dossier

25 Years Fall of the Wall

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The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago. Life in eastern and western Germany has now converged in many areas, but differences remain. In this dossier we have put together the East-West issue addressed by research at the MPIDR. more

September 29, 2014 | New Publication

Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R

The new book by MPIDR-researcher Frans Willekens, "Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R", is  a step-by-step procedure to investigate life histories using descriptive methods and statistical modeling  as well as "R", a free software programming language for statistical computing. more

September 19, 2014

Michaela Kreyenfeld held a lecture at a meeting of German-speaking heads of state

MPIDR-researcher Michaela Kreyenfeld was invited to a meeting of the German-speaking European heads of state held in Bad Doberan and Rostock on September 18. She delivered a presentation on the development of birth rates in German speaking countries. more

September 15, 2014 | New book

Germany´s future electors

The PhD of former MPIDR-Researcher Nora Sánchez Gassen has now been published as a book. She looked at the extent to which demographic changes in Germany have an influence on the composition of the electorate. more

September 09, 2014

Longer life thanks to reunification

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Had there been no reunification, in 2011 East German men on average would have died 6.2 years earlier than in unified Germany. Women would have lived 4.2 fewer years. These are the results of model calculations by MPIDR-researcher Tobias Vogt. more

August 30, 2014

Annette Baudisch appointed Professor at University of Southern Denmark

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MPIDR researcher Annette Baudisch has been appointed professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. more

July 14, 2014 | New Publication

No child day care services, no children

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Women in Germany have much fewer children than females in neighboring states mainly due to the lack of child care services. This shows a comparison with the German-speaking region in neighboring Belgium done by MPIDR scientists. more

July 08, 2014

A child but no man. What’s next?

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On July 8, Sonja Bastin has successfully defended her dissertation. Her PhD work focuses on the life-course of lone mothers. more

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