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August 05, 2015
New study: Couples who perceive a drop in happiness in the first year after they became parents, have a lower probability of having second children. more
October 15, 2014
Each additional euro eastern Germans received in benefits from pensions and public health insurance after reunification accounted for three additional hours of life expectancy, a new study by MPIDR researcher Tobias Vogt shows. more
July 24, 2014
Births before marriage are common in East Germany, but not so in the West. The historical roots of this divide date back to well before 1945. It will stay for long. more
April 17, 2014
MPIDR study proves trans-generational defense mechanism in humans: If the environmental disease load at conception is high mortality of the children is reduced during epidemics. more
April 02, 2014
Mapping the very old: Those who reached an age of 105 years or more in Germany are concentrated in the north-west and in Berlin. more
December 11, 2013
New MPIDR study: Low birth rates in Germany do not result from German culture, but rather from too little provision of public child care. more
December 08, 2013
New Nature study: MPIDR researchers publish demographic data that show how diversely different species age across the tree of life. Evolutionary theories can not yet explain why. more
November 12, 2013
Parents’ strategy to love their children depends on more than blood ties, finds a new MPIDR study by Kai Willführ. more
July 10, 2013
New MPIDR study: Rising unemployment rates stop upward trend of fertility in European countries more
March 21, 2013
New MPIDR projections: In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. Women born in the 1970s will have more babies than previous cohorts. more