Award | March 24, 2025

IUSSP Early Career Award 2025 Europe for Diego Alburez-Gutierrez

MPIDR research group leader Diego Alburez-Gutierrez receives the IUSSP Early Career Award 2025 Europe. The IUSSP Early Career Awards were established by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) in 2023 for each of the world regions. The award recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to the development of our discipline and the wider field of population studies by early career researchers in the different regions of the world, and promotes the global visibility of their achievements. The awards will be presented online on May 15. More

April

Scientific Presentations

LabTalks@DCD

Irena Chen from the Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being gives a talk. More

All Events

Call for Papers

Fertility, Childlessness, and Reproductive Aging: Bio-social Perspectives

Career

Open Positions

Introduction to our research groups

Fertility and Well-Being

Award | March 21, 2025

DGD Best Paper Award for Athina Anastasiadou

Migration researcher Athina Anastasiadou has won the Best Paper Award of the German Society for Demography (DGD). Anastasiadou received the award on March 20 at the DGD's annual conference for her paper "Gender Differences in the Migration Process: A Narrative Literature Review" in the journal Population and Development Review. More

Selected Publications

Gueltzow, M.; Oude Groeniger, J.; Bijlsma, M. J.; Jansen , P. W.; Houweling, T. A. J.; van Lenthe, F. J.:

Childhood obesity's influence on socioeconomic disparities in young adolescents’ mental health Annals of Epidemiology 94, 19–26. (2024)

Akbaritabar, A.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Larivière, V.:

A global perspective on social stratification in science Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11:914, 1–10. (2024)

More Publications

Call for Papers

Climate Change, Environmental Hazards and Population Dynamics

Workshop@PAA2025

Introduction to Digital Trace Data for Migration Studies

Questions and Answers

Being a Researcher at the MPIDR

Working at MPIDR

Life & Research in Rostock

New articles every week

Open Access

Online Available Books

New Issue 4/2024 available | December 18, 2024

The Quarterly German Newsletter

News | October 15, 2024

The Debate on the Limits of Human Life Extension Continues

March 17, 2025

How have Covid-19 vaccinations affected birth rates?

A recent study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) found a link between the introduction of Covid-19 vaccination and a decline in fertility rates nine months later, with behavioral changes likely being the main cause. However, in most of the countries studied, the fertility rates returned to pre-pandemic levels after vaccination. There was no evidence of long-term adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccination on fertility tends. More