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La fabbrica dei mostri. Rappresentazione dell'immigrazione e consenso elettorale 13 December 2017, 9:00-17:30 Room N01 Piazza Sraffa 13.
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.
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
This study provides a review of the concept of family ties. It then measures family ties in an unprecedentedly all-encompassing way, accounting for the individual
eterogeneity (by context, gender, education and age) that may affect them, looking at the patterns of variation among the different dimensions. Indeed, a large number of indicators have been used in the literature to measure family ties, but the inter-relation among their dimensions has rarely been explicitly taken into account. Furthermore, family ties have been assumed to be invariant among different individuals, without any formal test of this assumption. The analysis is based on Italian National Statistical Office (ISTAT) survey on family and social subjects (FFS 2016) on 24,753 individuals. A Structural Equation Model (SEM) is used to measure the different family tie dimensions and to test their invariance by individual characteristics. The results bring out seven dimensions of family ties. These dimensions are invariant by context and gender, but not by education and age. These findings offer a clear picture of the concept of family ties and show how this concept is differently perceived on the basis of some ascribed and some acquired personal characteristics.