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
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The second MaxHel Meeting will bring together researchers from Rostock and Helsinki to present, discuss, and further develop ongoing and future projects and collaborations. More
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The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research recently hosted a symposium to bring together researchers from different disciplines and countries working on scholarly migration and mobility and to start a network. A special issue as part of the journal "Quantitative Science Studies" is in production. More
Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Williams, I.; Caswell, H.:
Projections of human kinship for all countries Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:52, e2315722120–e2315722120. (2023)
Akbaritabar, A.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Larivière, V.:
A global perspective on social stratification in science Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11:914, 1–10. (2024)
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A new study conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), the University of Cologne, GESIS and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health explores how an individual’s financial wealth changes in relation to generational transitions within the family. The results indicate that those who become parents and grandparents later in life, and, particularly if they experience the loss of their parents later, tend to accumulate the most wealth. In contrast, families spanning four generations experience the smallest increase in wealth. A person's financial wealth is deeply interconnected with intergenerational family transitions, such as the birth of grandchildren or the death of parents, and is tied to the family structure as a whole. More