Season´s Greetings 2024 | December 18, 2024

Looking Forward to New and Exciting Opportunities in 2025

A look back shows that in 2024, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) saw many accomplishments, scientific gatherings, and reasons to celebrate at the Institute. More

January

Scientific Presentations

LabTalks@SocialDemography

Philipp Dierker from the Laboratory of Population Health, Biosfer and MaxHel Center and Zafer Büyükkececi from the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being and Biosfer give talks. More

All Events

Call for Application

Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program

New Issue 4/2024 available | December 18, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Introduction to our research groups

Gender Inequalities and Fertility

Workshop | December 18, 2024

2nd Annual MaxHel Center Meeting

For the second time, the researchers of the Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health met for their annual MaxHel Center meeting at the beginning of November, this year in Rostock. A total of 40 people from MPIDR and the University of Helsinki took part in the two-day event. More

Selected Publications

Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Re-partnering and single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-001. (2023)

Dudel, C.; Loichinger, E.; Klüsener, S.; Sulak, H.; Myrskylä, M.:

The extension of late working life in Germany: trends, inequalities, and the East-West divide Demography, 1–23. (2023)

More Publications

Latest Publications | November 26, 2024

Winter 2024

Jobs & Fellowships

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

New Publication | December 05, 2024

Education Level Predicts Childbearing Trends in Same-sex Partnerships

A new study by the University of Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) has examined the fertility trends of same-sex female couples in Finland. The data shows a significant increase in the likelihood of these couples having a child within five years of registering their partnership, rising from 20% to 45% for partnerships registered between 2002 and 2016. This trend was particularly pronounced among couples with a higher level of education, while the probability decreased among couples with a lower level of education. More