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 Utrecht University 

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

Erasmus University
PILAR GOMEZ
Gender and Performance in Collaborative Research: Evidence From Student Teams
Read
University College London
FRANCESCA BORGONOVI
A brief review of computer-based assessments in education and an application to the study of test taking strategies of videogamers
Read
Bocconi University
DONDENA RESEARCH MEETING
Read
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
CHRISTOPHER CARLETON
The surprising impact of climate change on conflict in Europe during the 2nd Millennium and its implications for our understanding of long-term climate-conflict dynamics
Read
Institute For Advanced Study in Toulouse
MANVIR SINGH
The deep origins of sedentism, inequality, and large groups
Read
University of Gothenburg
STAFFAN I. LINDBERG
Autocratization Accelerates: Trends for Democracy and Autocracy in a Covid-19 World
Read
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
CHINMAY TUMBE
The Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920: How they shaped India and the World
Read
Institute for Economic and Social History
MARKUS LAMPE
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
Read
University of Wisconsin - Madison
MARCY CARLSON & PETER FALLESEN
Longer lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark
Read
University of Pennsylvania
JULIA C. GRAY
Forming Preference on International Cooperation: Uncertainty, Control, and Shocks to Leadership in the 1919 US Senate Debate on the League of Nations
Read