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Press ReleaseFathers getting older at the birth of children: High average age not a new phenomenon

The average age of fathers at the birth of a child has risen sharply in Germany in recent decades: While it was 31.0 years in 1991, fathers were 34.7 years old on average when their children were born in 2022.

Focus themes and articles

The future of work "Adapting job biographies to demographic change"

From a working society to an active society: BiB ageing researcher Dr. Andreas Mergenthaler explains in an interview why it is worth discussing a new definition of "work". more : "Adapting job biographies to demographic change" …

FReDA Call for Modules

Researchers can submit proposals for modules or individual questions for the survey of the fifth FReDA wave in autumn 2025. The deadline is 31 May 2024. more : Call for Modules …

Global migration flows (2015-2020) (refer to: Global migration flows)
Global migration flows (2015-2020) (refer to: Global migration flows)
Journal “Comparative Population Studies” (refer to: Comparative Population Studies)
Journal “Comparative Population Studies” (refer to: Comparative Population Studies)
BiB Population Research Series (refer to: BiB Population Research Series)
BiB Population Research Series (refer to: BiB Population Research Series)

Publications

Ziege, Elena (2024): 

Passport to Progress: The Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Siblings’ Education.

BiB Working Paper 7/2024. Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung.

Grigoriev, Pavel; Bonnet, Florian; Perdrix, Elsa (2024): 

Method for redistributing ill-defined causes of death.

Population Studies: 1–11.

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spiess, C. Katharina (2024): 

Well-being throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Gendered effects of daycare and school closures.

BiB Working Paper 6/2024. Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung.

Kasinger, Christoph; Braunheim, Lisa; Beutel, Manfred E.; Brähler, Elmar (2024): 

The development of wealth and its role in the “happiness gap” between East and West Germans.

In:Heller, Ayline; Schmidt, Peter (Eds.) Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall. German Unification and Transformation Research. London: Routledge: 228–244.

Surveys and Data of the BiB

German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS)

In at least four survey waves, the study examines the individual consequences of international mobility for German nationals. The first survey was conducted from November 2018 to February 2019.

Transitions and Old Age Potential (TOP)

Two waves were conducted in 2013 and 2016. A third wave was conducted in 2019. This survey focuses on retirement transitions and the potential of older adults on the labour market, in civil society and in the family.

Familienleitbilder (FLB) – Concepts of Family in Germany

This survey was conducted in two waves: 2012 and 2016. The questionnaire focuses on the issues of relationship, family, children, parenthood and personal life circumstances.

Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe

The survey is an international comparative research project which focuses on the prevalence, the causes and the consequences of job-related spatial mobility in Europe.

Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)

This survey was conducted in three waves: 2005, 2008/2009 and 2018. Its focus is on relationships between children and their parents (generations) and relationships in couples (gender).

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