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May 23, 2024 | News | Workshop
The recent availability of massive amounts of digital data have revolutionized research on migration and mobility. That is why this event brings together researchers to present and discuss the use of innovative digital data sources, new methodologies and empirical findings. more
May 21, 2024 | News
Carla Rowold, who joined the Laboratory of Population Health in April, has successfully defended her PhD thesis “An accumulation of gender inequalities in old age? Exploring life course- and gender-sensitive approaches for analysing Gender Pension Gaps” at the University of Oxford. more
May 21, 2024 | News
Steffen Peters successfully defended his Phd thesis about “Who starts a family? The prospective association between psychological factors and family formation processes” at the Stockholm University. more
May 15, 2024 | Press Release
This recent study by Silvia Loi and colleagues examines how life events like job loss and divorce affect the health of immigrants using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. They find that immigrants experience more rapid declines in health as they age. Moreover, they find that job loss has a stronger and more long-lasting impact on the health of immigrants, especially men. more
April 12, 2024 | News | New Faces at MPIDR
The Laboratory of Population Health and Research Group Labor Demography welcomes Carla Rowold as a new team member. Carla's research interests range from gender and age inequalities, life course sociology, social demography to family and retirement policy.
Previously, she was a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Oxford. more
April 10, 2024 | News | Call for Papers
Advances in computational power and statistical algorithms, in conjunction with the increasing availability of large datasets, have led to a Cambrian explosion of machine learning (ML) methods. For population researchers, these methods are useful not only for predicting population dynamics but also as tools to improve causal inference tasks. However, the rapid evolution of this literature, coupled with terminological disparities from conventional approaches, renders these methods enigmatic and arduous for many population researchers to grasp. more
April 09, 2024 | News
We are pleased to congratulate Ben Malinga John on the successful defense of his dissertation on the "Union-Fertility Nexus and Fertility Variation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Marital Dissolution and Repartnering" at Stockholm University. more
April 05, 2024 | News
Our flagship project, the Human Mortality Database, has received a major update with the release of cause-specific data series. This is the first major expansion since the addition of short-term mortality fluctuation data in 2020. more
March 27, 2024 | News | Call for Papers
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) invites submissions from researchers working on or interested in scholarly migration and mobility to attend a one-day symposium in Rostock on October 15, 2024. The symposium aims to promote lively exchange and collaboration among a group of interdisciplinary scientists (from areas such data science, scientometrics, demography, science of science, sociology, migration studies, and more) with interests related to scholarly migration and scientific mobility. more
March 26, 2024 | Press Release
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) used Facebook data to investigate the influence of cultural similarities on migration flows and found that cultural proximity plays as important a role in the choice of destination country as shared language and history. more