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December 18, 2024 | Defo News
In this issue of Demografischen Forschung Aus Erster Hand, all three articles are dedicated to the topic of migration. The first article examines the extent to which Russian women actually intend to leave their country following the Russian war against Ukraine. The second article looks at how people from wealthy societies fare when they emigrate. In the third article, you will find out how inter-ethnic partnerships differ in terms of the number of children compared to partnerships where both partners come from the same country. more
December 18, 2024 | News | Workshop
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
December 18, 2024 | News | Season´s Greetings 2024
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
December 17, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Lifespan Inequalities research group welcomes Josephine Jackisch as a new member. Josephine is a social epidemiologist who comes to MPIDR from the Population Health Laboratory at the University of Fribourg. She completed her PhD at the Centre for Health Equity Studies (Karolinska Institutet/ Stockholm University) in Sweden, where she studied the role of childhood adversity in premature mortality and health inequalities. more
December 12, 2024 | News | Award
MPIDR affiliated scientist Andrés Felipe Castro Torres and his Co-Author Edith Yolanda Gutierrez-Vazquez are awarded with the 2023 Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year prize for his paper “Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America”. more
December 05, 2024 | News | Award
Since 2014, the Journal of Population Economics has annually awarded the Kuznets Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Population Economics. This year, the prize goes to Emma Xianhua Zai (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research & GLO) and Peter Eibich (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL & GLO). They received the Best Paper Award 2025 for their Open Access article "Are the grandparents alright? The health consequences of grandparental childcare". more
December 05, 2024 | News
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. Despite supportive Finnish legislation, large disparities in access to parenthood persist, highlighting the need to eliminate remaining barriers to childbearing, particularly in the context of falling fertility rates. more
December 03, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Max Planck Institue for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is happy to welcome Maren Koch to the administrative team. Maren will support the Laboratories of Migration and Mobility and Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being as foreign language secretary. more
November 29, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
Brooke Livo started working as Summer Incubator Officer at the Department of Digital and Computational Demography. She is looking forward to meeting new people from all different fields and backgrounds and to advance her creative side a bit more. In her free time Brooke likes to do crafts. more
November 28, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Research Group: Migration and Health Inequalities welcomes Songyun Shi. He worked as a research assistant while completing his PhD at the University of Hong Kong. While staying with us for the next two years, he will focus on studying health disparities between immigrants and non-immigrants in the European context. Besides demography he is fascinated by architecture, especially modern design. more