Research Visit

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program

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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is organizing and hosting the Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program, a 3-month research visit for a diverse group of PhD and master students.

The goal of the Summer Incubator Program is to enable discovery by bringing together data scientists and population scientists from around the world to work on focused, intensive and collaborative projects of broad societal relevance.

Participating students are exposed to best practices across social and data sciences while contributing to a hands-on project experience. All participants have access to lectures and participate in other scientific activities happening at the MPIDR.

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Publications and working papers following the 2023 Incubator program:

Pojman, E.; Mwedzi, D. E.; Olaya Bucaro, O.; Zhang, S.; Chong, M.; Alexander, M. J.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.:

Leaving for life: using online crowd-sourced genealogies to estimate the migrant mortality advantage for the United Kingdom and Ireland during the 18^th and 19^th centuries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-050. (2023)       

Publications and working papers following the 2022 Incubator program:

Paul, R.; Reid, S.; Coimbra Vieira, C.; Wolfe, C.; Zhao, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Chunara, R.:

Methodological improvements in social vulnerability index construction reinforce role of wealth across international contexts

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-017. (2023)    

Badolato, L.; Decter-Frain, A. G.; Irons, N.; Miranda, M. L.; Walk, E.; Zhalieva, E.; Alexander, M. J.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

The limits of predicting individual-level longevity

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-008. (2023)