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April 16, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture

Life after death: The scale and salience of mortality exposure in sub-Saharan Africa

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On April 23, 2019, Emily Smith-Greenaway from the University of Southern California, gave a lecture about life after death: The scale and salience of mortality exposure in sub-Saharan Africa. more

April 12, 2019

Immigrants in Italy: Arriving healthy, staying healthy?

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Two researchers from the MPIDR have shown that the health of migrants in Italy adapts over time to that of their new compatriots. The worse the socio-economic situation of the immigrants is, the faster this convergence is. more

April 01, 2019 | PAA 2019

MPIDR at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2019

Several MPIDR researchers will present their work at the Meeting of the Population Association of America, which takes place in Austin, Texas, USA from April 10–13, 2019. The Institute will also have an exihibition booth. more

March 15, 2019 | News

Marcus Ebeling was awarded the Young Investigator Award of the German Demographic Association

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At this year's annual meeting of the German Society for Demography, which took place in Bamberg from March, 13 to 15,  2019, MPIDR researcher Marcus Ebeling was awarded the Young Investigator Award. more

March 12, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture

Equivalence scales and the distribution of household income: do we know what we´re doing?

On March 19, Martin Werding from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum gave a lecture about equivalence scales and the distribution of household income at the MPIDR. more

January 22, 2019 | Suessmilch Lecture

Leveraging Genetics to Inform Social Demography

On 29 January 2019, Dalton Conley from Princeton University  gave a talk at the MPIDR about sociogenomic research. more

January 14, 2019 | Rostock

Caravan of Science 2019

From January 14 to 28, the “Wissenskarawane” gives school students the opportunity to get insights into the research done at research institutes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On January 14, the MPIDR opens its doors to students. more

January 09, 2019 | IMPRS

New Doctoral School for Population, Health and Data Science

Martin Stratmann, President of the Max-Planck Society, has announced the launch of a new International Max Planck Research School focusing on Population Health and Data Science. The school will be hosted at the MPIDR and the University of Rostock and will admit about 20 doctoral students per year. more

December 18, 2018 | Event

Rostock Retreat on Simulation

In July 2019, the Rostock Retreat on Simulation will bring together population researchers and social scientists from many disciplines who use computer simulations to advance discovery and generate new insights. The application deadline is February 28, 2019. more

December 17, 2018

Congratulations!

On December 13, 2018, Inna Danilova successfully defended her doctoral thesis on spatial analysis of mortality data in Russia. more

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