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January 06, 2016 | New Publication
After six decades of improvements in life expectancy, Mexican life expectancy has stagnated since the beginning of the 21st century. The reason for the stagnation is the upsurge of homicide rates among men after 2005. This is the finding of a study conducted by EDSD-doctoral student José Manuel Aburto. more
December 10, 2015 | Call for papers
The Human Fertility Data Project team invites contributions to the 2nd HFD Symposium on “Population-level fertility research: State of the art”. Deadline for submission of abstracts is February 23. more
December 01, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On December 8, David de la Croix of the Université catholique Louvain will give a talk at the MPIDR. He will explain how population density and fertility are connected in developing countries. more
November 30, 2015
On November 27, Thi Mai Van Bui, a PhD Student at the MPIDR, has successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Rostock. She investigated retirement decisions in a family context. more
November 18, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On November 24, Mark D. Hayward of the University of Texas Austin will give a lecture at the MPIDR. He will deal with the question about the growing importance of advanced education in the US for improving adult life expectancy. more
November 16, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
On November 23 Leontine Alkema of the University of Massachusetts Amherst will give a talk at the MPIDR. She will explain a method to estimate and project family planning indicators. more
November 13, 2015 | New Publication
Women in developed countries live longer than men, but on average they have poorer health and more disabilities. Max Planck India Fellow Nandita Saikia investigates whether these differences also apply to men and women in India. more
October 26, 2015 | New publication
Women in Eastern Germany on average have children earlier than women in the old Länder. But what about Eastern German women who migrated to the west? MPIDR-researcher Anja Vatterrott has looked at this question to determine whether it is external conditions or rather socialization that influences the birth behavior. more
October 21, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
Life expectancy is increasing in many prosperous countries to a similar extent. However, the development of the distribution of cause of death differs from country to country. A newly convened researchers IUSSP Panel aims now at examining these differences. The Chairman of the Panel, Ulrich Mueller, will give a talk about the project on October 27. more
October 20, 2015 | Suessmilch Lecture
How can human characteristics like values, habit, and social influences be dealt with in statistics? On October 28, 2015 Joan Walker from the University of California, Berkeley, will give answers during a Süßmilch Lecture at the MPIDR. more