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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
November 27, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The administrative team at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is pleased to welcome Susanne Draheim. Susanne will support the administration as a clerk for purchasing and construction. more
November 26, 2024 | News | Latest Publications
Find out what new publications have been released in autumn 2024. more
November 25, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-being welcomes Abigail Tun Mendicuti to its team. Abi has been affiliated with MPIDR since the beginning of her doctoral studies. She comes to MPIDR from the Population Research Center at the University of Groningen. Before that, Abigail was part of the European Doctoral School of Demography 2021-2022. Abigail worked as a research assistant at El Colegio de Mexico, where her interest in migration research began. more
November 21, 2024 | News | SPOTLIGHT
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A current study by Prof. L. H. Lumey (Columbia University, New York) and Dr. Nataliia Levchuk (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPDIR) / Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies, Kyiv) et al. published in Science on August 9 examined the long-term effects of prenatal famine on adult health. The researchers analyzed data from people born before, during and after the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine and found that those born during the famine had a two-fold higher risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. The findings highlight the importance of maternal nutrition in early pregnancy and prenatal care, especially in times of crisis. more
November 19, 2024 | News | Workshop
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research organized a workshop to clarify the goals, techniques, and applications of machine learning methods for population research. The machine learning theme continues on 25 February with a Süßmilch lecture by Vanessa Didelez. more
November 15, 2024 | News | Award
The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the University of Oxford have honored Henrik Schubert, a doctoral student in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being at the MPIDR and the University of Oxford, for his paper “Too many men? Subnational population imbalances and male childlessness in Finland.” more
November 05, 2024 | Press Release
New research shows a strong correlation between higher levels of female education and lower fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and partners finds that educated women are leading the shift towards smaller family sizes, even influencing the decisions of less educated women around them. The study's innovative forecasting model based on education levels provides policymakers with better tools to understand how women's education can shape future population trends and promote sustainable development. more