We study the structure and dynamics of populations and explore issues of political relevance, such as aging, fertility, and the redistribution of work over the life course, as well as digitization and the use of new data sources for the estimation of migration flows.
New Faces at the MPIDR | October 20, 2026
Welcome, Johanna Kranz!
Johanna Kranz joins the team of the Research Coordination. She will work as a foreign language secretary and support Christina Westphal who is MPIDR’s research coordinator and IMPRS-PHDS coordinator. More
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Scientific Presentations
SeminarTalks@DCD
Bruno Lankoandé from the Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo (UJKZ) and Yacouba Compaoré from the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research (CNRST) together give a talk. More
All Events
Call for Research Contributions
Rethinking Fertility Relationally
Recommended Readings | October 14, 2026
Different Routes into a First Partnership: How women with migration histories enter cohabitation and marriage in Finland
Introduction to our research groups
Migration and Health Inequalities
Family | October 07, 2026
Parenthood with Multiple Partners
A new study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) reveals that gender and social background influence the complexity of families in different ways throughout people's lives. Even in highly gender-equal Nordic countries, social inequalities in family formation persist. More
Selected Publications
Hünteler, B. M.; Hank, K.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Leopold, T.:
A typology of young adults' nuclear and extended family relations in the United States Journal of Marriage and Family 88:1, 284–298. (2026)
Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:
Long-term environmental background radiation is associated with urinary tract cancer incidence: a population-based study from Finland Cancer Epidemiology 99:102912, 1–10. (2025)
More Publications
Call for Papers
Special Collection | Demographic Research | Kinship Demography: Structures, Dynamics, and Inequalities
New Issue 3/2026 available | October 06, 2026
The Quarterly German Newsletter
Questions and Answers
Being a Researcher at the MPIDR
Working at MPIDR
Life & Research in Rostock
Career
Open Positions
Postdoc/Research Scientist in the Kinship Inequalities Research Group University of Hong Kong – Max Planck PhD Studentship in Population Studies Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program More
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal of population sciences
Perspectives
Blog@MPIDR
Doctoral Program
International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science
News | September 30, 2026
New Horizon Europe Project LIFe Traces Inequalities Across Lives and Generations
How much do the circumstances of your birth shape where you end up as an adult? The project LIFe (Intergenerational Fairness: A Life-Course Approach) brings together research and policy-analysis institutions across Europe to examine how advantages and disadvantages build up over entire lifetimes and across generations. MPIDR’s Department of Digital and Computational Demography will take a leading role in modelling demographic and health developments. More