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January 11, 2022 | Press Release
Women's place of birth helps to explain racial/ethnic disparities in the timing and quantum of fertility. MPIDR Researcher Andrés Castro and Emilio Parrado, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrate how foreign-born mothers are more determinant for Hispanic's fertility patterns than Black's and White's. more
January 10, 2022 | News | Congratulations
The Population Council announced Raya Muttarak and Joshua Wilde as new Editors of Population and Development Review (PDR). more
December 20, 2021 | News | Season’s Greetings
We wish all our employees, alumni, and friends of the Institute and Demography overall, a very happy holiday season and a good start into the new year. more
December 16, 2021 | News | New Publication
MPIDR-Researcher Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen and Lasse Tarkiainen published a new article on heavy metal toxicity and mortality in BMJ's Christmas Issue. more
December 15, 2021 | Defo News
Read in the new issue of “Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand” how the Corona epidemic affected life expectancy in 2020 and how working weekends impacts work-family balance. more
December 13, 2021 | News | Welcome to the MPIDR
Jessica Donzowa is a new PhD Student in the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography. She wants to explore and evaluate new data sources, like Social Media. In her free time she likes jigsaw puzzles and visiting her 15-year-old dog in her home town. more
December 09, 2021 | News | Welcome to the MPIDR
Coming from the University of Edinburgh, where she obtained her Master in Social Research, Jasmin Abdel Ghany is a new PhD-Student at the Fertility and Well-being Laboratory. She wants to find out how climate change impacts fertility, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In her free time she likes to travel, from Rostock she will probably visit friends in Scandinavia more often. more
December 08, 2021 | News | Interview
MPIDR-Researchers Marília Nepomuceno and Alyson van Raalte propose a novel lifespan variation measure in their recent paper published in Demography. In this interview, the researchers explain why it is important to analyze lifespan inequality and how the new metric provides an alternative perspective. more
December 06, 2021 | News | Prize for Excellent Paper
A paper which estimates the impact of mobility restrictions on excess deaths in England and Wales during the first wave of Covid-19 by Ugofilippo Basellini and colleagues was granted the award in the name of former MPIDR Director Jan M. Hoem. more
December 02, 2021 | News | IPC 2021
Several MPIDR researchers present their work at the IUSSP's International Population Conference, which takes place in a virtual manner from December 5 to 10, 2021. more