Working papers

2013

2013 - n° 59

The Role of Parental Social Class in the Transition to Adulthood: A Sequence Analysis Approach in Italy and the United States

Maria Sironi, Nicola Barban, Roberto Impicciatore

Keywords: transition to adulthood; social class; parental background; sequence analysis

2013 - n° 58

Inequality (un)perceived: The emergence of a discourse on economic inequality from the Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions

Guido Alfani, Roberta Frigeni

Keywords: equality; inequality; economic inequality; social inequality; middle ages; early modern period; French revolution; economic thought

2013 - n° 57

Youth Vulnerability in Europe during the Great Recession

Arnstein Aassve, Elena Cottini, Agnese Vitali

Keywords: transition to adulthood,poverty,deprivation,crisis

2013 - n° 56

Friend and peer effects on entry into marriage and parenthood: A multiprocess approach

Nicoletta Balbo, Nicola Barban, Melinda Mills

Keywords: social interactions,peer effects,fertility,marriage,multiprocess,event history analysis

2012

2012 - n° 55

Trust and fertility dynamics

Arnstein Aassve, Francesco Billari, Léa Pessin

Keywords: generalized trust,low fertility,women’s education,outsourcing,multilevel models

2012 - n° 54

The Economic Costs of Organized Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy

Paolo Pinotti

Keywords: organized crime,economic development,synthetic control methods

2012 - n° 53

Trust, Firm Organization and the Structure of Production

Federico Cingano, Paolo Pinotti

Keywords: trust,delegation,firm size,comparative advantage

2012 - n° 52

Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants

Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Paolo Pinotti

Keywords: immigration,crime,legal status

2012 - n° 51

Policy perspectives of grandparenting in Europe

Valeria Bordone, Bruno Arpino, Arnstein Aassve

Keywords: Grandparental childcare,intergenerational relationships,policies,multilinks database

2012 - n° 50

Does fertility behavior spread among friends?

Nicoletta Balbo, Nicola Barban

Keywords: transition to parenthood,add-health,social interaction,peer effect

2011

2011 - n° 49

High development and fertility: Fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link

Mikko Myrskylä, Hans-Peter Kohler, Francesco C. Billari

Keywords: low fertility,socioeconomic development,Human Development Index,gender equality

2011 - n° 48

Using panel data to partially identify HIV prevalence when HIV status is not missing at random

Bruno Arpino, Elisabetta De Cao, Franco Peracchi,

Keywords: partial identification,nonignorable nonresponse,panel data.HIV prevalence,Malawi,Diffusion and Ideational Change Project data

2011 - n° 46

The educational aspirations of children of immigrants in Italy

Alessandra Minello, Nicola Barban

Keywords: educational aspirations,immigrant integration,ITAGEN,friendship ties,scholastic context

2011 - n° 45

Leaving mum alone? The effect of parental divorce on children's leaving home decisions

Letizia Mencarini, Elena Meroni, Chiara Pronzato

Keywords: Generations and Gender Survey,GGS,divorce,living home,life-course patterns,France,Georgia,Hungary,Italy,Russia

2011 - n° 44

Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe

Alessandra Casarico, Paola Profeta, Chiara Pronzato

Keywords: post-secondary education,university,child care time requirement,managerial positions,self-employment,context,EU-Silc,repeated cross section

2011 - n° 43

The height production function from birth to early adulthood

Elisabetta De Cao

Keywords: height,health,early-life events,production function,Philippines

2011 - n° 42

When the first union comes to an end: Is it less distressing if we were cohabiting?

Lara Patrício Tavares, Arnstein Aassve

Keywords: cohabitation,marriage,union dissolution,marital protection,psychological distress,BHPS,GHQ

2011 - n° 41

Classifying life course trajectories: A comparison of latent class and sequence analysis

Nicola Barban, Francesco Billari

Keywords: sequence analysis,latent class analysis,life course analysis,categorical time series

2011 - n° 40

Social customs and demographic change: The case of godparenthood in Catholic Europe

Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon, Agnese Vitali

Keywords: godparenthood,godparents,spiritual kinship,demographic change,social change,social customs,social norms,baptism,lowest-low fertility

2011 - n° 39

Family trajectories and health. A life course perspective

Nicola Barban

Keywords: sequence analysis,life course analysis,health outcomes,transition to adulthood

2011 - n° 38

Grandparenting and childbearing in the extended family

Arnstein Aassve, Elena Meroni, Chiara Pronzato

Keywords: fertility,grandparents,SHARE,extended family

2011 - n° 37

The sensitivity of the Scaled Model of Error with respect to the choice of the correlation parameters: A simulation study

Rebecca Graziani, Nico Keilman

Keywords: population forecasts,Scaled Model of Error,sensitivity analysis

2011 - n° 36

Grandparenting and mothers' labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey

Arnstein Aassve, Bruno Arpino, Alice Goisis

Keywords: female labour market participation,grandparents,childcare,attitudes,omitted variable bias

2010

2010 - n° 35

A wiki for social workers in a local health authority: An actor-network analysis and seed design

Marisa Ponti, Stefano Renzi, Jane Klobas

Keywords: wiki,social workers,health sector,actor-network theory,Italy,seed design

2010 - n° 34

Re-examining coherent arbitrariness for the evaluation of common goods and simple lotteries

Drew Fudenberg, David K. Levine, Zacharias Maniadis

Keywords: preferences,anchoring,willingness to pay,Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism

2010 - n° 33

Stochastic population forecasts based on conditional expert opinions

Francesco C. Billari, Rebecca Graziani, Eugenio Melilli

Keywords: stochastic population forecasting,random scenario,conditional expert opinions,Italian population forecasts

2010 - n° 32

Age norms on leaving home: Multilevel evidence from the European Social Survey

Arnstein Aassve, Bruno Arpino, Francesco Billari

Keywords: age norms,European Social Survey,leaving home,multilevel analysis

2010 - n° 31

Living arrangements of second generation immigrants in Spain: A cross-classified multilevel analysis

Agnese Vitali, Bruno Arpino

Keywords: cross-classified multilevel models,living arrangements,second generation immigrants,Spain,young adults

2010 - n° 30

Exploring the potential of Web 2.0 to improve knowledge directories and group mind

Paul D. Jackson, Jane Klobas

Keywords: transactive memory systems,TMS,social software,Web 2.0,collective learning,knowledge sharing,knowledge management

2010 - n° 29

Yearning, learning and conceding: (Some of) the reasons people change their childbearing intentions

Maria Iacovou, Lara Patrício Tavares

Keywords: fertility intentions,individual decision-making,constraints to childbearing,intention-behaviour mismatch,theory of planned behavior

2010 - n° 28

Economic downturn and stress testing European welfare systems

Francesco Figari, Andrea Salvatori, Holly Sutherland,

Keywords: unemployment,economic crisis,European Union,household income,microsimulation

2010 - n° 27

Climate, population and famine in Northern Italy: General tendencies and Malthusian crisis, ca. 1450-1800

Guido Alfani

Keywords: history of climate,plague,famine,Little Ice Age,Malthusian crisis,Early Modern Italy,agrarian innovation,alfani

2010 - n° 26

Secularization, union formation practices and marital stability: Evidence from Italy

Roberto Impicciatore, Francesco Billari

Keywords: divorce,cohabitation,civil marriage,religion,multiprocess models,selectivity

2010 - n° 25

Entrepreneurs, formalisation of social ties and trustbuilding in Europe (14th-20th centuries)

Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon

Keywords: godparenthood,spiritual kinship,marriage witnesses,trust,entrepreneurship,Industrial Revolution,Reformation,formalisation of social tie

2009

2009 - n° 24

Measuring the size and impact of public cash support for children in cross-national perspective

Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland

Keywords: children,taxes and cash benefits,child poverty,European Union,microsimulation

2009 - n° 23

Recent fertility trends and second birth decision-making in Georgia

Nicoletta Balbo

Keywords: fertility intentions; fertility decline; Georgia,GGS data

2009 - n° 22

Life expectancy, economic prosperity and retirement preferences

Arnstein Aassve, Cristina Ruggeri, Zsolt Spéder

Keywords: life expectancy,GDP,retirement preferences,pension reforms,European Social Survey,multilevel models

2009 - n° 21

Simulations and agent-based modelling

Jacopo A. Baggio, Rodolfo Baggio

Keywords: agent-based models,simulations,complex systems,tourism destination

2009 - n° 20

Now or later? The theory of planned behaviour and fertility intentions

Lars Dommermuth, Jane Klobas, Trude Lappegård

Keywords: fertility intentions,fertility timing,theory of planned behavior,Norway

2009 - n° 19

Assessing the quality of institutions' rankings obtained through multilevel linear regression models

Bruno Arpino, Roberta Varriale

Keywords: multilevel models,ranking of institutions,second-level residuals distribution

2009 - n° 18

Higher education and youth transition from school to labour market: The Spanish case

Marta Rohana Lopez

Keywords: university education,school to work transitions,mismatch in the labour market,Spain

2009 - n° 17

The impact of regional factors on leaving home in Spain: A multilevel approach

Agnese Vitali

Keywords: leaving home,multilevel models,Spain

2008

2008 - n° 16

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! Survey design and the analysis of satisfaction

Gabriella Conti, Stephen Pudney

Keywords: satisfaction,measurement error,questionnaire design,BHPS

2008 - n° 15

A simple implementation of Schelling's segregation model in NetLogo

Fabrizio Iozzi

Keywords: NetLogo,Schelling,simulation,agent-based,segregation

2008 - n° 14

Return to work after childbirth: Does parental leave matter in Europe?

Chiara Pronzato

Keywords: parental leaves,women’s labour supply,childbirth,childcare

2008 - n° 13

Estimating the causal effect of fertility on economic wellbeing: Data requirements, identifying assumptions and estimation methods

Bruno Arpino, Arnstein Aassve

Keywords: fertility,poverty,causal inference,unconfoundedness,instrumental variables,VLSMS

2008 - n° 12

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior with qualitative research

Stefano Renzi, Jane Klobas

Keywords: Theory of Planned Behavior,TPB,qualitative methods,e-learning,Learning Management System,LMS,university teaching,Online Social Interaction,Computer Supported Collaborative Learning,CSCL

2008 - n° 11

Motherhood and market work decisions in institutional context: A European perspective

Daniela Del Boca, Silvia Pasqua, Chiara Pronzato

Keywords: employment,fertility,childcare,parental leave

2008 - n° 10

Happiness and childbearing across Europe

Arnstein Aassve, Maria Sironi, Alice Goisis

Keywords: happiness,childbearing,European social survey,ESS

2008 - n° 9

Who delays childbearing? The relationships between fertility, education and personality traits

Lara Tavares

Keywords: childbearing postponement,time to first childbirth,personality traits,Big Five

2008 - n° 8

Are lone mothers responsive to policy changes? The effects of a Norwegian workfare reform on earnings, education and poverty

Magne Mogstad, Chiara Pronzato

Keywords: welfare,lone mothers,workfare reform,difference-in-difference,activity requirements,time limits,earnings,education,poverty

2008 - n° 7

Network science and socio-economic systems: A review focused on a tourism destination

Rodolfo Baggio, Noel Scott, Chris Cooper

Keywords: complex systems,network science,tourism destination,destination management

2008 - n° 6

The specification of the propensity score in multilevel observational studies

Bruno Arpino, Fabrizia Mealli

Keywords: propensity score,multilevel studies,unconfoundedness,causal inference

2008 - n° 5

Why educated mothers don't make educated children. A statistical study in the intergenerational transmission of schooling

Chiara Pronzato

Keywords: intergenerational transmission,education,twin-estimator,sibling-estimator,power of the test

2008 - n° 4

Analysing fertility trends through Schmertmann's model: Italy and Sweden compared

Alessandra Carioli

Keywords: Second Demographic Transition,fertility trends,postponement,quadratic spline interpolation,Italy,Sweden

2007

2007 - n° 2

A scale for the measurement of self-efficacy for learning (SEL) at university

Jane E. Klobas, Stefano Renzi, Maria Luisa Nigrelli

Keywords: academic self-efficacy,self-efficacy for learning,SEL,university,measurement scale

2007 - n° 1

Preference theory and low fertility: A comparative perspective

Agnese Vitali, Francesco C. Billari, Alexia Prskawetz, Maria Rita Testa

Keywords: preference theory,low and lowest low fertility,Europe,European Social Survey,welfare regime