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Read the special English-language DEMOS on the occasion of the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna

NIDI is the national demographic research institute. NIDI conducts leading, high-level scientific research in the broad field of population studies thereby also contributing to solving societal challenges. The research is organized around four core themes, is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach and is internationally oriented.

NIDI 50 Years • Cross sections of population research

NIDI is a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and is affiliated with the University of Groningen.

Health, Ageing and Mortality

Forecasting future socio-economic inequalities in longevity: the impact of lifestyle ‘epidemics’

FUME: Future Migration Scenarios for Europe

Verkenning Bevolking 2050

Future mortality: Integrating smoking, alcohol, and obesity

Comparing current and future ageing in Europe and Asia using a multidimensional ageing indicator

Socio-economic differences in health and mortality later in life

The effect of early life circumstances on health and formal long term care use

The pros and cons of a flexible public pension age

The life course of the young in the 21st century: risks for increasing inequality?

PREMIUM_EU: Policy REcommendations to Maximise the beneficial Impact of Unexplored Mobilities in and beyond the European Union

Historical GIS & demography

Prenatal under-nutrition exposure and adult mortality

The impact of neighbourhood effects and socio-economic status on mental health over individual life courses

Origins and progression of chronic diseases and multimorbidity across adulthood

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Prof. dr. S.A. (Solveig) Cunningham

Migration and Migrants

MYMOVE: Migrant youth mobility in Europe - Patterns, processes and consequences

QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy

CrossMigration: Current European and Cross-National Comparative Research and Research Actions on Migration

The multicultural drama in perspective: 40 years of migrants and non-migrants in the Netherlands

Employment insecurity and family formation patterns in the Netherlands: Differences by migrant background explored and explained

Families of migrant origin: A life course perspective (FAMILIFE)

Mobile Welfare: European welfare states in times of mobility

Residential segregation in five European countries: A comparative study using individualized scalable neighborhoods (ResSegr)

Refugee women and their opportunities and challenges in the Dutch labour market

Dilemmas of doing Diversity (DiDi): Diversity policies and practices in Dutch towns in the past, present, and future

Work and retirement of older migrants

PROMISE: Prominent Reduction of loneliness among Older Migrants through Interventions and Social Engagement

Developing a national migrant panel dataset: Integrating surveys with register data

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Prof. dr. F. (Frank) van Tubergen

Demographic Change and the Labour Market

Ageing workers in an ageing society: Labour force transitions and work in late life

Delaying retirement: Confronting responses of employees and employers

Longitudinal employer-employee perspectives on the role of human capital investments for retirement transitions (LEEP)

The pros and cons of a flexible public pension age

The causes and consequences of retirement: A sociological perspective

The life course of the young in the 21st century: risks for increasing inequality?

Doorwerken voor AOW en pensioen: besef en beleving

Understanding the relationship between paid work after retirement and well-being in a European perspective

Het NIDI Pensioen Panel Onderzoek

A place to grow old? The risks and rewards of retirement migration

Pension monitor: Understanding causes and consequences of trust in pension institutions

Work and retirement of older migrants

Part-time employment in times of labour market shortages

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Prof. dr. C.J.I.M. (Kène) Henkens

Data Infrastructure and Open Science

GGP: Generations and Gender Programme

Verkenning Bevolking 2050

SSHOC: Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud

Achtergrondstudies Bevolking 2050

SoGreen: Social aspects of the green transition

Infra4NextGen: Infrastructure for Next Generation

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Prof. dr. A.H. (Anne) Gauthier

Families and Gender

Life-course transitions, socio-economic status and health behaviours

Care, retirement and wellbeing of older people across different welfare regimes: A subproject of the CREW project

Long-term consequences of growing up in out-of-home care: a study of family formation, employment and crime

Explaining differences in union dissolution between municipalities: the role of compositional, contextual and cross-level effects

Employment insecurity and family formation patterns in the Netherlands: Differences by migrant background explored and explained

Coordination of the European Social Survey in the Netherlands

ODISSEI: Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

SERISS: Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences

The Comparative Family Policy Database

NKPS: Netherlands Kinship Panel Study

CONOPP: Contexts of Opportunity: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Links between Childhood Disadvantage, Young Adult Demographic Behaviour and Later-Life Outcomes

Family formation, family dissolution and reproduction in the Netherlands

Family Complexity: Intergenerational reproduction and solidarity in an era of family complexity

Temporary contracts and the transition to adulthood: The road to adulthood all tangled up? The impact of temporary contracts on the living situation and well-being of young adults

Bridging the earnings gap: what LGBT-couples tell us about gender inequality

Stepfamilies then and now: Building a database on children’s experiences of family complexity in the 20th century

The Comparative Panel File: Harmonizing comparative lifecourse data

A place to grow old? The risks and rewards of retirement migration

Unintended births and the motherhood penalty

Developing a national migrant panel dataset: Integrating surveys with register data

Part-time employment in times of labour market shortages

Growing up in an era of uncertainty: young adults’ life-course trajectories and well-being

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Prof. dr. M. (Matthijs) Kalmijn

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