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13/07/2018
Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research

Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research  July 10 to July 13, 2018. More info here.

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08/03/2018
Workshop on Political Economy

Workshop on Political Economy  8th of March 2018 Bocconi University, Room 3 b3 sr 01 via Röntgen 1 (Milano). The event will start at 10 am. Further information are available here. You can download the full program here.

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02/02/2018
Workshop "Inequality and Poverty across Generations in Europe"

Workshop "Inequality and Poverty across Generations in Europe" 2nd February 2018, 4:00PM Bocconi University, Aula Manfredini, via Sarfatti 25, Milano. The event is organized jointly by Dondena and by the PAM department. Download the program here

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14/01/2018
The 4th Alpine Population Conference (Alp-Pop 2018)

• The 4th Alpine Population Conference (Alp-Pop 2018) will take place in La Thuile, Aosta Valley (Italy) from January 14 to 17, 2018. Submissions of original papers or extended abstracts are invited by September 1, 2017. Submissions and inquiries should be addressed via email to: alp.pop@unibocconi.it . More info here.

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14/12/2017
Second Dondena Workshop on Public Policy

Second Dondena Workshop on Public Policy 14-15 December, 2017

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13/12/2017
La fabbrica dei mostri. Rappresentazione dell'immigrazione e consenso elettorale

La fabbrica dei mostri. Rappresentazione dell'immigrazione e consenso elettorale 13 December 2017, 9:00-17:30 Room N01 Piazza Sraffa 13.

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12/12/2017
The Gender Equality Conference 2017

The Gender Equality Conference 2017 12th of December, at Bocconi University (10.30 am, AULA N04).  Keynote Lecture “The Glass Ceiling: an Economist’s Perspective” Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University.

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04/12/2017
The 2017 Alberto Dondena Lecture

The 2017 Alberto Dondena Lecture "The aftermath of austerity: what have we learnt and where next?" Speaker: David Stuckler, Bocconi University Monday, December 4, 2017 - h. 4.30 p.m. Room N10 (Velodromo). Download the program here.  For organizational reasons, please confirm your participation through the following link: www.unibocconi.it/eventi

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2016 - n° 91
Female employment and pre-kindergarten: On the unintended effects of an Italian reform
We theoretically show that when mothers need to buy childcare services not only if they work but also if they want to search actively for a job, a reduction in the price of childcare will increase their likelihood of searching but may decrease their willingness to accept a job offer and therefore lower employment. We test these predictions empirically by means of a Regression Discontinuity design and find that the introduction in Italy of pre-kindergarten, a much cheaper alternative to day care for 2-year-old children, increased both participation in the labour market and employment of mothers of eligible children. This effect was driven largely by a significant decrease in the stated reservation wage. For a full evaluation of the policy we finally provide evidence that pre-kindergarten did not affect children’s cognitive development as measured at second grade.
Francesca Carta, Lucia Rizzica
Keywords: child care,female labour supply,public services
2013 - n° 56
Friend and peer effects on entry into marriage and parenthood: A multiprocess approach
This paper aims to investigate whether friends’ and peers’ behavior influence and individual’s entry into marriage and parenthood during the transition to adulthood of young, U.S. adults. After first studying entry into marriage and parenthood as two independent events, we then examine them as interrelated processes, thereby considering them as two joint outcomes of an individual’s unique, underlying family-formation strategy. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we engage in a series of discrete time event history models to test whether the larger the number of friends and peers who get married (or have a child), the sooner the individual gets married (or has a child). Results show strong cross-friend effects on entry into parenthood, whereas entry into marriage is only affected by peer effects. Estimates of a multiprocess model show that cross-friend effects on entry into parenthood remain strongly significant even when we control for cross-process unobserved heterogeneity.
Nicoletta Balbo, Nicola Barban, Melinda Mills
Keywords: social interactions,peer effects,fertility,marriage,multiprocess,event history analysis