Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

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Steadily increasing longevity is both an impressive achievement and a major challenge for the developed world. Continued improvements in life expectancy inevitably contribute to population aging, and are expected to strongly decrease the worker-to-non-worker ratio. The extent to which increasing longevity is good news at the individual and societal level depends on the answers to two key questions. First, are the extra years of life spent in good or in poor health? Second, how is increasing longevity distributed between work and retirement? Research being conducted at the laboratory of Population Health focuses on these two questions.   Detailed Description

Selected Publications

Schöley, J.; Karlinsky, A.; Kobak, D.; Tallack, C.:
The Lancet 401:10375, 431–432. (2023)       
Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Mönkediek, B.:
Social Science and Medicine 331:116070, 1–9. (2023)    
Gueltzow, M.; Bijlsma, M. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Myrskylä, M.:
Social Science and Medicine 332:116100, 1–9. (2023)       
Jang, S. Y.; Oksuzyan, A.; Myrskylä, M.; van Lenthe, F. J.; Loi, S.:
SSM-Population Health 23:101478, 1–11. (2023)       
Sharma, S.; Hale, J. M.; Myrskylä, M.; Kulu, H.:
Demography 60:5, 1441–1468. (2023)    
Stonkute, D.; Lorenti, A.; Spijker, J. J. A.:
SSM-Population Health 23:101470, 1–9. (2023)       
Abrams, L. R.; Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N. K.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:42, e2308360120–e2308360120. (2023)       
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.