Seminar Series

DONDENA SEMINAR SERIES - FALL 2026
Unless otherwise specified, 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

FOR INFORMATION
Carlo F. Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy
tel. +39 025836.3303 dondenaresearch@unibocconi.it www.dondena.unibocconi.it

7 SEPTEMBER
Causal Meta-Analysis by Integrating Multiple Observational Studies with Multivariate Outcomes
Subha Guha Dartmouth College

14 SEPTEMBER
Beyond Data Abundance: Methodological Advances for Epidemic Modeling 
Eugenio Valdano INSERM

21 SEPTEMBER
Political Violence and Family Bereavement in Gaza 2000-2025 
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez MPIDR

28 SEPTEMBER
Algorithm-mediated social learning in online social networks 
William Brady Kellogg School of Management 
joint with the Department of Cognitive Science

5 OCTOBER
Who Can have a Baby? Social Norms and the Right to Reproduce 
Leticia Marteleto University of Pennsylvania

12 OCTOBER
Promises, Policies, and Accountability: Evidence from Brazilian Mayors 
Claudio Ferraz University of British Columbia and PUC-Rio

19 OCTOBER
When Commemoration Backfires: Commemorative Exclusion and Minority Electoral Mobilization 
Gizem Arikan Trinity College Dublin

26 OCTOBER
The Idea of Growth 
Daniel Markovits Yale Law School

2 NOVEMBER - ROOM AS01
Inequality Effects of Bureaucracies’ Coping with Overload 
Eva Thomann University of Konstanz 

9 NOVEMBER
Railways and Health in Colonial India 
Maanik Nath London School of Economics

11 NOVEMBER (09:30 am)
The Human Cost of Economic Crises: Evidence from Colombia's 1997-1999 Collapse
Juliana Jaramillo Echeverri Central Bank of Colombia

16 NOVEMBER
Temporal Distortion in the Effects of Climate Shocks on School Attendance in Nigeria
Liliana Andriano University of Southampton

23 NOVEMBER
Women's Rights in Early Modern France 
Paula Gobbi Université Libre de Bruxelles

30 NOVEMBER
From Youth to Lifelong NEETs: A Social Investment Tool to Quantify the Economic and Social Cost of Exclusion 
Massimiliano Mascherini Eurofound

14 DECEMBER
Labour market demand and attitudes towards immigration 
Sergi Pardos-Prado University of Glasgow

ROENTGEN ROOM 3-B3-SR01 + ZOOM MEETINGS
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 5/12/2022

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

ROENTGEN ROOM 3.E4.SR03 + ZOOM MEETINGS
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 29/11/2022

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

ROENTGEN ROOM 3-B3-SR01 + ZOOM MEETINGS
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 28/11/2022

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 

ROENTGEN ROOM 3-B3-SR01 + ZOOM MEETINGS
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 21/11/2022

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

 

ROENTGEN ROOM 3-B3-SR01 + ZOOM MEETINGS
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 14/11/2022

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

Roentgen Room 3-B3-SR01 + ZOOM Meetings
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 07/11/2022

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

Roentgen Room 3-B3-SR01 + ZOOM Meetings
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 24/10/2022

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)

ROENTGEN ROOM 3.B3.SR01
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 17/10/2022

This fourth appointment of the DONDENA Seminar Series FALL will feature a presentation from Julia Schulte-Cloos; Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, on her paper "Familiarity with the political role of ethnic minorities reduces voter bias against candidates of immigrant origin"

 

You may follow the event online via ZOOM Meetings at this link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/93152820668

ROENTGEN ROOM 3.B3.SR01
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 10/10/2022

This third appointment of the DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 2022 will feature a presentation from Professor Sebastian Till Braun, Professor of Economics at the University of Bayreuth where he holds the chair of Quantitative Economic History, on his paper "Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926-2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?".

You may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/92287102577

ROENTGEN ROOM 3.B3.SR01
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DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 22/09/2022

This second appointment of the DONDENA Seminar Series FALL 2022 will feature a presentation from Roman Hoffmann, group leader in the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program, on his paper titled "Climate Change, Aridity and Internal Migration: Evidence from Census Microdata for 72 Countries"