Seminar Series
DONDENA SEMINAR SERIES - SPRING 2026
All seminars will take place in hybrid mode from 12:45 to 2:00PM (CET) at Bocconi University Room 3.B3.SR01 via Röntgen 1, Milano
Please note that on January 26th, February 2nd, February 9th, and February 23th the seminar will be held in in Room 4-E4-SR03, Via Röntgen 1.
FOR INFORMATION
Carlo F. Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy
tel. +39 025836.6620 dondenaresearch@unibocconi.it www.dondena.unibocconi.it
26 JANUARY - Room 4-E4-SR03
CAN GENERATIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY BE A THING?
Alberto Aletá Casas Universidad Zaragoza
2 FEBRUARY - Room 4-E4-SR03
STATE DEPENDENCY, EDUCATION, AND PROTEST: EVIDENCE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA.
Neil Ketchley Oxford University
9 FEBRUARY - Room 4-E4-SR03
AN AGENCY PERSPECTIVE ON IMMIGRATION FEDERALISM
Asya Magazinnik Hertie School
16 FEBRUARY
FOLLOWING CELLS AFTER GENE THERAPY: FROM GENES TO POPULATIONS.
Danilo Pellin Harvard Medical School
23 FEBRUARY - Room 4-E4-SR03
FROM TRENDS TO MECHANISMS: A THEORY-INFORMED FRAMEWORK FOR MORTALITY FORECASTING
UgoFilippo Basellini MPIDR
2 MARCH
UNEQUAL LUCK: CHANCE AS A MECHANISM OF EDUCATIONAL
Fabrizio Bernardi UNED
9 MARCH
CASUL META-ANALYSIS BY INTEGRATING MULTIPLE OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES WITH MULTIVARIATE OUTCOMES.
Subha Guha Dartmouth College
16 MARCH
EVALUATING THE POLITICAL SUSTAINABILITY OF HIGH-SKILLED IMMIGRATION: DO AFFORDABILITY SHOCKS PROMPT ELECTORAL BACKLASH?
Jeremy Ferwerda Dartmouth Collage
23 MARCH
THE GREATER OF ALL PLAGUES: HOW ECONOMIC INEQUALITY SHAPED POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM PLATO TO MARX
David Lay Williams DePaul University
30 MARCH
STATUS, INCOME, AND REDISTRIBUTIVE PREFERENCES: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
Pavi Suryanarayan LSE
13 APRIL
THE LONG-RUN PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
Julián Costas-Fernández University of Surrey
20 APRIL
RE-USING ADMINISTRATIVE AND STATISTICAL DATA FOR THE CREATION OF LONGITUDINAL POPULATION INFRASTRUCTURES IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
Diego Ramiro Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC)
27 APRIL
POLICY SIGNALS, CULTURAL NORMS, AND THE MISALLOCATION OF TALENT
Alessandra L. González DUKE University
4 MAY
"COUNCILS AND INDIRECT RULE IN BRITISH AFRICA"
Jutta Bolt University of Groningen
11 MAY
HAVING A CHILD THROUGH MEDICALLY ASSISTED REPRODUCTION: A SOCIAL STRATIFICATION PERSPECTIVE
Alice Goisis University College London (UCL)
18 MAY
SUGAR, HARDSHIP, AND AFTERMATH OF SLAVERY
Marie Beigelman King’s College
25 MAY
HOW TO STUDY YOUTH GENDER POLARIZATION
Kevin Munger European University Institute (EUI)
22 JUNE
TBD
Theo Araujo University of Amsterdam
This fourteenth appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Viola Angelini, Professor in the Economics of Household Behaviour at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance of the University of Groningen; on her academic paper titled "Giving with a warm hand: evidence on estate planning and inter vivos transfers"
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format - presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/98218912844
This thirteenth appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Professor Luca Flabbi, in the Economics Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; on his academic paper titled “Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development”
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format - presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/94575557990
This seminar has been co-organized with Bocconi's AXA Lab for Gender Equality
This twelfth appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Giorgia Menta, post-doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER); on her academic paper titled “Depression and Early Retirement Age: Causal Evidence from a Gene-Environment Setup”
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format - presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/94419456584
This eleventh appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from professor Manuela Stranges, Associate Professor of Demography at the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance “Giovanni Anania”, University of Calabria; on her academic paper titled “Subjective Wellbeing: economic, social and legislative factors”
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format (presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/97667549323
This extra tenth appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Professor Monica Helen Green, fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, specialized in the history of infectious diseases in the pre-modern European period; on her academic paper titled "A New Definition of the Black Death: Genetic Findings and Historical Interpretations"
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format (presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/91877851612
This ninth appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Professor Thomas Baudin, Full Professor at IESEG School of Management in the Economics and Quantitative Methods Department; on his academic paper titled "Le bruit et l'odeur": Discrimination, work and fertility among second generation migrants in France "
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format (presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/91868044253
This eight appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Professor Bishnupriya Gupta, Professor of Economics and Co-editor of the Journal of Economic History from Warwick University, on her academic paper titled "Missing Women in Colonial India".
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format (presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/91931658260
This seventh appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Professor Trevor Jackson of the George Washington University, where he teaches and researches on the history of inequality and financial crisis, on his academic paper “From Commodity Gluts to General Gluts: Crises of Overabundance in Atlantic Economies, 1602-2008”
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format (presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/94878304230
This sixth meeting of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Judy Zara Stephenson, Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, UK, and an economic historian of labour markets, organisations and employment in early modern England; on her academic paper “Nominal wages and labour market power in early modern London”
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format (presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/96117265216
This fifth meeting of the Dondena Seminar Series Fall 2022 will feature a presentation from Emilio Zagheni, Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, on his academic paper "Global migration of scholars: trends, gender inequalities, and patterns with economic development"
Please note that the seminar will be in a hybrid format (presence + Zoom meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/98934478621)