January 22, 2025

Research School at the MPIDR to Become a Permanent Institution

The International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS) has been made permanent by the Max Planck Society. This decision was announced at the Annual Academy, which took place from 4 to 6 December 2024.  More

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Scientific Presentations

LabTalks@­SocialDemography

Nicole Hiekel from Biosfer and the Research Group: Gender Inequalities and Fertility and Jonas Schöley from the Laboratory of Population Health, Biosfer and the MaxHel Center give talks.  More

All Events

Registration for Online Participation

Second Rostock Open Science Workshop

Introduction to our research groups

Kinship Inequalities

Blog@MPIDR | January 21, 2025

My takeaways from COP29 in Baku

MPIDR scientist Risto Conte Keivabu was part of a Max Planck Society delegation that attended COP29 as an observer last year. In this short blog, he summarises his impressions and insights from the trip.  More

Selected Publications

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Basellini, U.; Zagheni, E.:

When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss   Population Studies, 1–13. (2024)

Anastasiadou, A.; Volgin, A.; Leasure, D. R.:

War and mobility: using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine   Demographic Research 50:8, 205–220. (2024)

More Publications

Latest Publications | January 20, 2025

Winter 2024

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New Issue 4/2024 available | December 18, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Russia | January 16, 2025

Willing to Emigrate

Media reports say that many Russians wanted to leave their country after Russia's attack on Ukraine. But data to verify this are not available. A team of researchers has now leveraged a rarely used data source to examine whether this assumption can be proven by science.  More

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.