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Family as a Wealth Factor
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Covid-19 Deaths Worldwide: Taken Together, People Under 75 Account for Most of the Years of Life Lost
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Historically High Excess Mortality
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This is How the Gender Ratio Looks Like in Different Disciplines
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Simultaneous Care Time Demands are Higher for Those in the Global South
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Science of Science: Is Knowledge Produced in the Global North Perceived as More Generalizable?
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LinkedIn Data Shed Light on the Openness to Migrate Internationally for a Job
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COVID-19: Life Expectancy Mostly Continued to Decline in 2021
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Swedish Pensions: Large Gap in Lifetime Pension due to Inequality
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USA: Less Educated Spend Less Time in Retirement
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Perceived Fairness
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Migration of Academics Worldwide: Female Researchers Are Less Mobile
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Why has the Stillbirth Rate in Germany been Rising since 2009?
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COVID-19: Period Life Expectancy Drops Significantly due to Pandemic
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Mortality in high income countries: Causes of death show more variation
The researchers used the so-called normalized Shannon entropy, which is a measure of how different one population’s cause of death distribution is from another. If everyone died of the same cause, entropy would be 0. If there was an equal chance of dying from all 19 major cause of death categories, entropy would be 1. Related Press Release

Health behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic: online survey provides insights
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Counterfactual life expectancy USA
The figure displays the results of a simulation that examines the size of the influence of each of the two causes of death. Related Press Release

Life Expectancy at Birth 2019: Hong Kong is the leader
On average, men and women in Hong Kong are now the oldest in the world.

Total Fertility Rate in Nordic countries
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Fertility rate is similiar in neighboring regions
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Retired grandfathers influence the family planning of their children
One year after grandfathers take early retirement, the probability that their children will have a second child increases by 17 percentage points. Related Press Release

Fertility Rate in different age cohorts
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Influence of education and income in mortality
This figure shows the mortality risk under the influencing factors income level and educational level for men and women in East and West Germany in 2013. Related press release

Case Fatality Rate
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Birth behavior of U.S.-American women with university degrees
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Medical professionals had a lower life expectancy than scholars in other disciplines
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Covid-19: Life Expectancy Decreased in Most High-Income Countries
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The Thirty Years´ War might have had affected life expectancy
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Demographic Analysis Reveals the Long Shadow of Genocide in Guatemala
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Schweden: Große Ungleichheit bei lebenslanger Rente

Perceived Fairness
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Perceived Fairness
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Migration of Scientists: Economic Development Does Not Necessarily Lead to Brain drain
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Migration of Academics Worldwide: Female Researchers Are Less Mobile but the Gender Gap has Shrunk
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Breast cancer in women over 60 affects life expectancy in Sweden between 1994 and 2016
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Global Comparison: How Many Mothers Have Lost a Child
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Reliably estimate the number of people who are infected with Covid-19
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Young but chronically diseased: one reason why the shape of Covid-19 pandemic may be different in countries in the Global South
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How much does Life Expectancy differ between Regions?
The higher the values in the graphics, the more life expectancy differs between subnational regions. Related News

Parental Wellbeing
Especially in their leisure time during activities with their children, parents feel more sense in life than adults who are not raising children. Related Press Release

Men and women adjust their health behavior after shock events
At the beginning of a disease, men are more likely to overlook symptoms and go to the doctor less often than women. After treatment in a hospital, however, the behavior of men and women is similar. Related Press Release

Crude death rates per week compared internationally
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Men die too early
Alcohol-related mortality for men 20 to 64 years old across the combined territory of Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and European Russia. related news

Lower Pension, shorter Life
The poor lag farther and farther behind when it comes to life expectancy. Related press release

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