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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Scientific Presentations

LabTalks@­SocialDemography

Chiara Micheletti from the Laboratory of Population Health gives a talk.  More

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New Issue 1/2025 available | April 02, 2025

The Quarterly German Newsletter

Introduction to our research groups

Migration and Health Inequalities

New Publication | April 02, 2025

Low Fertility and Economic Sustainability

A recently published study by Mikko Myrskylä, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany shows how  money spent on education compensates for the influence of low birth rates on long-term economic sustainability. Myrskylä and his co-authors conducted a simulation using Finish data to study how the economy shrinks when fertility is very low, and how investments in education can compensate for the smaller birth cohort size. They find that such investments increase the productivity of the workforce which compensates for its smaller size.  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)

Jasilionis, D.; van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.; Grigoriev, P.:

The underwhelming German life expectancy   European Journal of Epidemiology, 1–12. (2023)

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Press Release | April 03, 2025

Gender Role Beliefs Shape Desire for Parenthood

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Radboud Universiteit demonstrates how attitudes towards gender roles shape family planning decisions. They conclude that low fertility rates in egalitarian societies reflect more than just practical barriers to parenthood, but may signal a fundamental shift in social values and life priorities.  More

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