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 
joint with MiSPS

9 NOVEMBER
Railways and Health in Colonial India 
Maanik Nath Utrecht University 

16 NOVEMBER
TBA 
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

Bocconi University
DO.RE.MEE
Dondena Research Meeting
University of Southern California
PAMELA MCCANN
The Political Economy of COVID-19 Policy Choices: Stay-at-Home Orders and Essential Workers in the U.S. States
King's College London
KAREN GLASER
How are varying care systems associated with inequalities in care and well-being in later life?
Università di Milano-Bicocca
MARIA PIA MENDOLA
The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy
Bristol University
CHRISTOPH KOENIG
The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Germany
Santa Clara University
KRIS MITCHENER
The Smoot-Hawley Trade War
IIASA
SERGEI SCHERBOV
Redefining Old Age (Sergei Scherbov and Warren Sanderson)
CHE, Univerisity of York
LUIGI SICILIANI
Incentivising hospital quality through evidence-based care bundling
New York University
PAULA ENGLAND
Is the gender revolution stalling?
Tempere University
JOHANNA KANTOLA
The impact of radical right populism on gender equality in the European Parliament