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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
HOW RESPONSIVE IS LOCAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT TO CONSTITUENCY PREFERENCES?
Asya Magazinnik Hertie School

16 FEBRUARY
FOLLOWING CELLS AFTER GENE THERAPY: FROM GENES TO POPOLATIONS.
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
TBD
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 APRILE
THE LONG-RUN PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
Julián Costas-Fernández University of Surrey

20 APRILE
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 APRILE
POLICY SIGNALS, CULTURAL NORMS, AND THE MISALLOCATION OF TALENT
Alessandra L. González DUKE University

4 MAY
GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALING: THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF COLONIAL-ERA HEALTHCARE FACILITIES IN BRITISH AFRICA
Jutta Bolt University of Groningen 

18 MAY
EXPERIENCE OF SLAVERY, TRANSITION TO FREEDOM 
Marie Beigelman King’s College

25 MAY 
HOW TO STUDY YOUTH GENDER POLARIZATION 
Kevin Munger European University Institute (EUI)


                 

Toulouse School of Economics
MOHAMED SALEH
Title: Export Booms and Net Fertility in a Malthusian Economy Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine
Lund University
JAN TEORELL
Title: Bargaining delays in polarized parliamentary democracies
Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography
DANIELA NEGRAIA
Title: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Well-being While Parenting: Does the Gender Composition of Children Matter
University of Wisconsin
LAWRENCE BERGER
Title: Do Foster Care Placement and ‘Aging Out’ of Care Lead to Poor Educational, Social, and Economic Outcomes?
University of California-Irvine
DAN BOGART
Title: Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution
University of Boston
SANDRO GALEA
Title: Understanding the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of population health science
University of Califonia, Berkeley
SEAN GAILMARD
Title: Imperial Governance and the Growth of Legislative Power in America
Online
Do.Re.Me
Essen University
MARTIN KARLSSON
Title: The Long-term Effects of Hospital Deliveries in Sweden
Università di Bologna
SARA LAZZARONI
Title: Cultural Contagion and Populism: Evidence from Argentina