How often do older parents and adult children stay in touch across Europe, and how geographically close are they to one another? These were the starting questions of our new paper w/ @marco16.bsky.social @valeriabordone.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4tcc8z2b

Older parent–adult child contact and proximity across Europe: New evidence, digital communication, and measurement issues

AbstractObjectives. We aim to provide updated, comparative evidence on the prevalence of frequent (face-to-face, telephone, and digital) contact and close

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JOB OFFER!! 🎉 🎉 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my team in the FIS3 KINMATTER Project on kin relationships 💑 👩‍👩‍👦 , health outcomes 🚑 , and inequalities. PhD required or close to completion in quantitative social sciences or (social)statistics. www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se...

🗓️ Save the date: on October 10th, the final event of the project KinHealth will take place in Padova @unipd.bsky.social 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 We will discuss kinship structure, ties, and obligations and their health implications with a wonderful team of scholars. ⚡️Spots are limited, get in touch!

fresh from the oven!!! (with @marco16.bsky.social & Valentina Tocchioni) #kinship #demography #LivingProximity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Horizontal or Vertical? A Tale of Geographical Proximity in Italian Kinship Networks

The increasing predominance of the “beanpole” family, a structure characterized by multiple ties across generations but fewer within one generation, has led most scholars to focus on parent-child (an...

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Reminder! Register until May 10 at shorturl.at/eJJwW

Bruno Arpino@brunoarpino.bsky.social · last yr.

📅 May 16, 2025, 10:30–12:30 | Univ. of Padua 🎓: “What Makes a Rigorous Quantitative Social Research?” w/ Prof. David Bartram, Editor of Social Indicators Research Register at: shorturl.at/eJJwW

Here my #paa poster showing kin proximity in obscure Italian provinces. Who knows how close people in Termoli lives :)) @marcoalbertini.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social

today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Today @unibo workshop on #intergenerational relations in #ageing societies (organized by F. Zanasi). We begin with the presentation by M. Tosi on #kinship network and their variation #demography #sociology