Tapani Valkonen, Professor of Demography

Towards the Understanding of Mortality Divergences and Reversals

Comparative and multidisciplinary research is only possible with extensive collaboration with colleagues. I think that today’s honor largely reflects my good fortune in working with many outstanding and open-minded colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, my current place of work, and my former work place, the Center of Demography and Human Ecology in Moscow. ...

Demography and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Abstract. One of the most urgent policy issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe concerns the extent and ways in which demographics have determined different patterns of mortality between groups and regions, and whether and how the pandemic and its economic consequences will affect population dynamics in the future. Post-pandemic policy evaluations on the spread of COVID-19 and the im...

demography of pediatric behavioral disorders

objective: behavioral disorders of children and adolescents have long been a subject of discussion among researchers of pedology,   psychology, medicine and psychiatry and are also a commonly encountered complaint of patients referring to the pediatric neurology out patient clinics. the main purpose of the present study is to survey some organic disorders, e.g. temporal lobe epilepsy (non convu...

Winsor , Major Professor Albert Choi , Minor Professor

Digital Demography

Demography is the science of human populations and, at its most basic, focuses on the processes of (i) fertility, (ii) mortality and (iii) mobility. Whereas modern states are typically in a reasonable position to keep records on both fertility and mortality, through birth and death registrations, as well as through censuses, measuring the mobility of populations represents a particular challeng...