Nataliia Levchuk&colleagues examined the association between prenatal famine & type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) in adulthood using the Ukrainian famine 1932-33(Holodomor).Individuals born in early 1934,exposed to the Holodomor,had a 2.21xhigher risk of T2DM. doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Happy&healthy within the Family: Read the translation of our article from the Infoletter "Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand". Bettina Hünteler & K. Hank found that well-being partly depends on the family constellations we are embedded in. demogr.mpg.de/go/happyandhea… Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology

We welcome your submissions for #PAA2025 and can't wait to host you in Washington, DC next spring! The Call for Papers is now available and submission system is OPEN. Deadline for submissions is September 29: ow.ly/muCk50SYG5x

📣Call for Application‼️ Join online ‼️ Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅 Nov 4 - Nov 8, 2024 Application Deadline: Sep 24, 2024 Instructors: Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @[email protected] Jisu Kim Risto Conte Tom Theile and Emilio Zagheni (Director MPIDR) demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122… #poptwitter

🌡️Hot days lower #fertility rates in 🇪🇸 Risto Conte et al. found a decrease in TFR across 🇪🇸 for each day with mean temperature > 25°C nine months after exposure.Interestingly,the impact doesn't substantially vary across different sociodemographic groups. tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.…

📣Call for Papers‼️ "Measuring Migration in Latin America: Leveraging digital traces, registers, censuses, and surveys" 🗺️ Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) 📅 February 25–26, 2025 Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024 demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… #poptwitter #migration

🔦SPOTLIGHT We're shining a 💡💡💡 on the publication of Maria Gueltzow. Maria Gültzow et al. investigated whether the unequal distribution of #childhoodobesity between different #socioeconomic positions affects the #MentalHealth of young #adolescents. demogr.mpg.de/go/adolescent-…

🎉🎓Congratulations! Xinyi Zhao successfully defended her dissertation on "Gender inequality in academia: Opportunities and Challenges in the Era of Globalization and Digitalization" University of Oxford. Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Sociology at Oxford IMPRS-PHDS Read all: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events…

Today we were happy to welcome Minister for Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs MV Bettina Martin. She stopped MPIDR during her ☀️☀️☀️Summer Tour 2024 to meet our scientists and to talk and to learn more about our current and future research.

📣Call for Papers‼️ Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity 🗺️ MPIDR 📅 March 19–21, 2025 Submission Deadline: October 18, 2024 demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… #CallForPapers #poptwitter #socialscience

In a current study in Demographic Research Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social and Mine Kühn examine the changes in childcare arrangements during the #pandemic and how this impacted parents' mental health. Mothers mostly experienced increased stress while fathers did not. demogr.mpg.de/go/PandemicChi… #poptwitter

The MPIDR welcomes the 2024 cohort of EDSD students! They will spend 8 weeks in Rostock for the preparatory courses & move to Ined in November for the EDSD core program. Enjoy your stay, the research & networking. Learn more: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… EAPS EAPS PhD Network

In 2021, MPIDR hosted a conference on "Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics." A special issue of Population and Development Review was now published based on this conference: demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events… Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Population Council

Thanks to everyone who contributed to MIMODE 2024 at Conference on Complex Systems and a special thanks to our invited speakers, Leo Ferres and Véronique Lefebvre, for their insightful presentations! See you next year!🚀

📣Job Offer for Students! MPIDR is seeking a Student Assistant for the Research Group Labor Demography. You should have a background in demography, economics, sociology, or a related field. Learn all: demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122…

It is great to see our article with Marco Cozzani and Joshua Wilde covered on this week's Economist: Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days economist.com/science-and-te… MPIDR The Economist

👓Recommended reading📚 While memory performance has improved strongly in many European countries, the improvement has been weaker in the US. Mikko Myrskylä Jo Mhairi Hale Daniel C Schneider & Neil K. Mehta compared data from adults 50+ in 13 countries. academic.oup.com/biomedgerontol… #health