Team

Elena Pirani is Associate Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. She received her PhD in Applied Statistics from University of Florence in 2009. Her current research addresses: family behaviours and structures; social support and family networks; individual health; social and economic inequalities; subjective well-being and quality of life.

Gustavo De Santis is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. His main research interests are related to survival, ageing and pension systems. He is also President of Neodemos (www.neodemos.info) and Chief Editor of N-IUSSP (www.niussp.org).

Bruno Arpino is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Florence. He obtained a PhD in Applied Statistics from the University of Florence in 2008. He coordinates a multi-country JPI MYBL project “Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes” (CREW). His research interests are in social demography, causal inference and applied statistics. He is particularly interested in intergenerational relationships, ageing, health, wellbeing, fertility and immigrants’ assimilation.

Giammarco Alderotti started a PhD in Demography at La Sapienza, University of Rome in 2016, and he is research fellow at the University of Florence. His research topics focus on the interplay between employment and fertility, migrants’ fertility and union formation. 

Arnstein Aassve coordinates the Bocconi team. He is Professor of Demography at Bocconi University. His research interest lies in the intersection of demography, sociology and economics, and has a particular interest in how cultural and structural characteristics matter for demographic trends. He has published widely in the social sciences, and currently he is leading an ERC Advanced grant project entitled Institutional Family Demography (IFAMID).

Nicoletta Balbo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on sociology of the family, life course, and fertility decision-making. Her research has looked at how peer effect and personal networks influence an individual’s fertility choices in advanced societies. She is as well interested in the relationship between life course transitions and subjective well-being and recently her research has also focused on health behaviors, especially among young people.

Letizia Mencarini is Associate Professor of Demography at Bocconi University. She is an expert of Population Europe, among the Leading Women Scientists of AcademiaNet, and Associate Editor for European Journal of Population and Population Review. Her research interests focus on family demography (life–course analysis, fertility, transition to adulthood, family formation and disruption) and its links with well-being, time use, gender diversity and migration in a policy and welfare state perspective. 

Paola Profeta is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University. She coordinates the Dondena Gender Initiative at the Dondena Research Center. Her current research projects focus on gender socio-economics and politics and the role of public policies to promote gender equality. In this area, she has widely published and she is active in the policy debate in Italy and in Europe. 

Fausta Ongaro coordinates the Padova team. She is Professor of Demography at the University of Padova. Her research focuses on: marriage, partnership and fertility behaviour; family and household; transition to adulthood; population aging and life conditions of older adults. Often these topics are developed with a life course perspective using survival analyses methods and longitudinal data.

Irene Barbiera is Assistant Professor of Demography at the University of Padova. She received her PhD in history,  historical demography and paleo-demography at the Central European University in Budapest in 2004. Her research focuses on: history of the family, gender relations and history of sexuality. 

Maria Letizia Tanturri is Associate Professor of Demography at the University of Padova. She received her PhD in Demography from Sapienza University of Rome in 2002. Her research interests fall broadly into the areas of low fertility and its socio-economic determinants, with special regards to childlessness and to the relationship between gender role-set, time use and reproductive behaviour. She is interested in studying the time-allocation and wellbeing and of the old population across Europe.

Donata Favaro is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Padova. She received her PhD in European Economic Studies from the University of Torino. She was ‘Profesora Asociada’ at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Association of Labour Economists (AIEL). Her research activity focuses on female labour market participation, gender wage differentials, and the effect of education, cognitive and non-cognitive skills on wages.

Silvia Meggiolaro is Associate Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Padova. She received her PhD in Statistics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Padova in 2006. Her research interests are: the influence of economic and social context on demographic behaviour, formation of reproductive behaviour, marital instability, elderly well-being and successful ageing.

Anna Giraldo is Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Padova.  She received her PhD in Applied Statistics from University of Florence in 1995. Her research interest includes: measurement of employment and unemployement, impact evaluation of public policies, analysis of students’ career in higher education, data quality in sample surveys, poverty.

Anna Paterno coordinates the Bari team. She is Full Professor of Demography at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. She received her PhD in Demography from the “Sapienza” University of Rome (1994). Her main research interests and expertise include characteristics, determinants and implications of demographic dynamics, international migration and foreign presence, with its demographic and socio-economic behaviours in the countries of the Euro-Mediterranean area.

Roberta Pace is Associate Professor of Demography at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. She received her PhD in Economics of Population and Development in 1999 from the University of Bari. Her current research addresses: integration and well-being of foreign population; family dynamics; multidimensional assessment of health.

Maria (Miriam) Carella is Assistant Professor of Demography at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. She received her PhD in Population and Economic Development from the University of Bari (2000). Her research interests concern demographic dynamics in the Mediterranean Basin, international migrations, family-related behaviours and socio-economic characteristics of immigrants in Italy, demographic window of opportunity and age structure in non-industrialized countries.

Raffaella Patimo is Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Bari “Aldo Moro”; she holds a PhD from University of Bari. She has been Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at University of Pittsburgh, USA and Fellow at its European Studies Center. She has taught labor economics and EU economic integration in Italy and other European countries. Her main research interests address labor market topics and EU economic issues, preferably on a gender-based perspective.

Thaís García-Pereiro is Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. She obtained her PhD in Economics of Population and Development from University of Bari in 2014. She has a European Master in Territorial and Populations Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her academic research topics focus on: intermarriage; international migration; return migration; union formation and dissolution; gender, employment and care.