Yvette Marie Young

Yvette Marie Young is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, affiliated with the Laboratory of Migration and Mobility. Her work centers on demographic analyses of war-related health impacts across the life course, particularly in aging populations of conflict-affected regions.

Her research specializes in migration-demography intersections, war trauma, and late-life health outcomes, employing life course frameworks to investigate how early-life exposure to violence shapes cognitive function, subjective aging, and psychological well-being in later years. This focus emerges directly from her laboratory's mandate and recent publications.

Recent publications (2024) reveal consistent thematic trends: all examine Vietnamese older adults exposed to wartime stressors, with methodologies emphasizing longitudinal cohort analysis and interdisciplinary approaches bridging demography, epidemiology, and psychology. Key fields include war-related cognitive decline, subjective age distortion, and PTSD persistence in aging populations.

As an active member of MPIDR's Laboratory of Migration and Mobility, she contributes to the institute's mission of advancing demographic science through computational and empirical studies of population dynamics, particularly in the Global South context.