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Nullen und Einsen als Symbol für die Digitalisierung (refer to: Two new research projects at BiB) | Source: © 3dkombinat / Adobe Stock

BiB-ResearchTwo new research projects at BiB

Two new projects have been launched at the BiB. One project is looking at how divorce affects the risk of death. Another is investigating how the length of time people receive pensions has changed since 2005, depending on the amount of their pension.

Journal ArticlesEurope’s COVID-19 death toll in 2020 and 2021: stark regional differences

Bonnet, Florian; Grigoriev, Pavel; Sauerberg, Markus; Alliger, Ina; Mühlichen, Michael; Camarda, Carlo-Giovanni (2024)

N-IUSSP September 2, 2024: 1–5

Europe was hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. While its effects at national level are now well known, intranational differences have been less frequently investigated. The Authors fill this knowledge gap and show that considerable heterogeneity exists at regional level, even within the same country.