New Faces at MPIDR | May 08, 2025

Welcome, Antonino Polizzi!

Antonino Polizzi has been a researcher in the Laboratory of Population Health at the Department of Social Demography since February. He will defend his doctoral thesis in sociology at the University of Oxford. In Rostock, he finds the astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church particularly interesting.  More

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Seminars

2025 Research Soft Skill Seminars

MPIDR colleagues, PhD students and guests are invited to participate in the 2025 edition of the Research Soft Skill Seminars.  More

All Events

New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Introduction to our research groups

Kinship Inequalities

Award | May 07, 2025

DGD Young Scientists Award for Anna-Kathleen Piereth

The DGD Young Scientists Award is presented at the annual conference of the German Association for Demography. This year, Anna-Kathleen Piereth from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) won the award in the category "Best Master's Thesis". She received the award in March 2025 at the DGD's annual conference in Wiesbaden for her master's thesis "The Demography of Inpatient Care: Insights from the German Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) Statistics".  More

Selected Publications

van Raalte, A. A.; Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Myrskylä, M.:

The dangers of drawing cohort profiles from period data: a research note   Demography, 1–10. (2023)

Dudel, C.; Schneider, D. C.:

How bad could it be? Worst-case bounds on bias in multistate models due to unobserved transitions   Sociological Methods and Research 52:4, 1816–1837. (2021)

More Publications

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New Publication | March 17, 2025

How have Covid-19 vaccinations affected birth rates?

Spotlight | April 23, 2025

Women with pregnancy losses show persistent health decline

In his recently published study, Alessandro Di Nallo, Research Scientist at the MPIDR examines how pregnancy outcomes — live births and pregnancy losses  — affect women’s physical health over time. The findings indicate that while physical health declines for all women after pregnancy, this decline is more pronounced and persistent among those who experienced a pregnancy loss.   More

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