September 24, 2024 | Defo News

Life Expectancy and Family

The new issue (No. 02/2024) of Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, the popular science newsletter with latest research results from demography, has been released.

The Newsletter is available in German only.

"Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand" is a joint publication of the Max Planck Institute for demographic Research (MPIDR), the Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels (RZ), the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).

The topics of the new issue are:

LIFE EXPECTANCY

Fairer pensions

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)

People who are worse off socio-economically have a lower life expectancy. This also means that they help finance the pensions of the better off. However, reforms of pension systems to address this inequity are entirely feasible.

INTERVIEW

"We must not leave demography to the populists' " 

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lutz was directly involved in the founding of the German Society for Demographic Research 20 years ago. In this interview, he explains why it is particularly important to educate people about demography and to correct misinterpreted facts.

FERTILITY

Unfulfilled desire for children 

Rostocker Zentrums zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels (RZ)

Simply looking at whether a woman has children or not is not enough when talking about unwanted childlessness. There are several reasons for so-called 'unrealised' fertility.

MOTHERS

The health costs of unequal care work   

Max-Planck-Instituts für demografische Forschung (MPIDR)

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that mothers, in particular, take on childcare when public childcare is not available. This has serious consequences for their health.

The newsletter is released four times a year and is available electronically and as a printed version and is free of charge.

It's definitely worth taking a look at the newsletter website - the editors have relaunched the site. The site now has many new features such as full-text search in all issues, all articles are tagged with keywords and all graphics are
can be accessed individually.