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

Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography
DANIELA NEGRAIA
Title: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Well-being While Parenting: Does the Gender Composition of Children Matter
Read
University of Wisconsin
LAWRENCE BERGER
Title: Do Foster Care Placement and ‘Aging Out’ of Care Lead to Poor Educational, Social, and Economic Outcomes?
Read
University of California-Irvine
DAN BOGART
Title: Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution
Read
University of Boston
SANDRO GALEA
Title: Understanding the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of population health science
Read
University of Califonia, Berkeley
SEAN GAILMARD
Title: Imperial Governance and the Growth of Legislative Power in America
Read
Online
Do.Re.Me
Read
Essen University
MARTIN KARLSSON
Title: The Long-term Effects of Hospital Deliveries in Sweden
Read
Università di Bologna
SARA LAZZARONI
Title: Cultural Contagion and Populism: Evidence from Argentina
Read
University of Macedonia
OWEN O'DONNELL
Title: Leveraging probability distortion to target prevention? A lottery experiment on cardiovascular risk
Read
University of Pennsylvania
MICHAEL HOROWITZ
Title: Morally Opposed? A Theory of Public Attitudes and Emerging Military Technologies
Read