Boris Barron joins the team at the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility. Boris comes from Cornell University, where he received his PhD in Physics for his thesis on "Applications of Information Theory to Modelling Complex Systems". While working with at the MPIDR over the next three years, Boris aims to further refine the modelling process and apply these ideas to systems where they could be most useful. More
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2 pm - 3 pm Julia Hellstrand (University of Helsinki) - Predicting ultimate childlessness by education in the Nordic countries Thea Grindstad (NIPH) - Trying to disentangle the effects of PFASs on miscarriage risk using the MoBa cohor Camilla Lomholt Kjersgaard (Aarhus University) - Atopic dermatitis and time to pregnancy More
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What's the upper limit of human life expectancy? Researchers tackle this question in a study published in Nature Aging, noting the slowdown in the rate of increase since 1990 and the implausibility of radical life extension this century. However, Dmitri Jdanov and Domantas Jasilionis from the Max Planck Institute provide a more hopeful commentary in the same journal, arguing that it is important to consider optimistic scenarios. More
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)
Dierker, P.; Kühn, M.; Myrskylä, M.:
Re-partnering and single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories Journal of Marriage and Family, 1–25. (2024)
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Angela Carollo is a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and a member of the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being. She received the Jan M. Hoem Paper Award for her paper “Event history analysis with two time scales. An application to transitions out of cohabitation”, authored by Angela together with Hein Putter, Paul H.C. Eilers and Jutta Gampe. The award was presented to Angela Carollo at the MPIDR Autumn Festival in October. More