🎉 New paper out in JEMS! Migrants in Italy are much more likely than natives to be overqualified for their jobs. Yet overqualification is less strongly associated with lower job satisfaction among migrants, especially if arrived as adults. Read here ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Read my new article w/ Di Patrizio & Giudici about school-university transition between Italians and students with migrant backgrounds! 👇🏻

Demographic Research@demresjournal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Academic expectations don’t always become reality. @etrappolini.bsky.social, Di Patrizio & Giudici show that migrant-origin students — especially later arrivals — are less likely to enrol in university than Italian peers with similar expectations. Full📄 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

PHD!

Demografia Sapienza@demosapienza.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎓🎩 Congratulations to Nicolò, Francesca, Giacomo, and Agostino on earning their PhDs! It was a wonderful day filled with inspiring talks on fertility, migration, mortality, and health — everything that demography is about. We are truly proud of your paths, well done to all four of you! 🌟📊

📣 Our article with Priulla A., Giudici C. & Vicari D. is out in JIMI! We analyse academic outcomes among Italian, international, and second-generation students in Italy. We find significant differences across groups, with important variations by citizenship. Read here 👇🏻 rdcu.be/eVfhQ

Our article (with @mussino.bsky.social @etrappolini.bsky.social @alderotti.bsky.social & Cristina Giudici) is out in Eur J Popul 🎉 We explore how unmet childcare needs shape mothers’ fertility intentions and behaviours in Italy, across native and migrant backgrounds. 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Formal Childcare Use and Mothers’ Fertility Intentions and Behaviours: Evidence in Italy by Migration Background - European Journal of Population

Numerous studies have explored the influences of family policies, such as formal childcare use, and migration on fertility, with mixed findings. However, limited research has examined how formal child...

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💥New publication in Population Studies: We explore how health in early adulthood influences fertility, using data from the 1958 British birth cohort. Read more here 👇

Giammarco Alderotti@alderotti.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New article with @etrappolini.bsky.social & @alyceraybould.bsky.social out in Population Studies! 🎉 We use data from the 1958 British cohort to explore how early-adult SRH & BMI relate to the achievement of fertility goals by midlife 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢New paper out in Quality&Quantity w/ Arezzo & Guagnano: Self-rated health can be biased. We use a misclassification-adjusted ordered probit model on Italian survey data (2019 EHIS) to improve estimates. Read it here 👉🏻 rdcu.be/euZgX

Brilliant session about “The Surprises of Population Studies” at #SIS2025 in Genova! Thanks to speakers and participants for the stimulating discussion! 👏 @karlosj89.bsky.social @florenceups.bsky.social @comochia.bsky.social

#PopDays2025 in Cagliari really felt like home and we are already looking forward to seeing you all in Trento 2027!🍀

Final session of #PopDays2025: presentation of the Population Report “Towards a Positive Demography” 📍Aula A — starting now!

My (very first) article is now available on SSM🎉 We investigated the extent to which the well-known educational disparities in dementia incidence persisted in subsequent healthcare utilization after dementia onset. Don't just go to read it, run!🏃

Educational disparities in dementia incidence and healthcare utilization: evidence from a cohort study in Italy

While educational disparities in dementia incidence are well-known, whether and to what extent they persist beyond dementia onset is less explored. In…

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📣 Aaaaaand... 👉 The Italian Association for Population Studies is also on Bluesky! Definitely a must-follow! 🙌 @aisp-sis.bsky.social 🙌

Super proud of Eleonora Miaci, who brilliantly and successfully defended her thesis yesterday about migrants’ fertility in Italy! A well-deserved achievement after all your hard work and dedication—it’s been an honor to be your supervisor. Excited for your bright future ahead! 🎓👏”

👉 Starting now: the launch event of Age-Florence, a research institute that brings together several departments of the University of Florence to conduct cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on aging.

GENUS joined Bluesky over a year ago—one of the first (if not the first) demographic journals here. A year later, the club is growing! 🎉 Comment below if you’d like to be added to our starter pack of demographic journals and resources! go.bsky.app/E6UtfNx

New publication! 📢 Elisabeth K. Kraus explores transnational configurations of nuclear and extended family members among Eritrean and Syrian refugees surveyed in Germany, using #TransFAR data. Check the paper #openaccess here 👇 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Beyond here and there? A description and typology of multi-transnational extended family configurations of refugees - Genus

The number of persons forcibly displaced across international borders increased significantly over the last decade and forced migrants’ spatial family configurations have diversified and are likely to...

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🔎 Join the final Workshop of the UnFamiLiC project! 📅 November 25th, 9:00am-5:00pm 📍 University of Florence (Polo Didattico Morgagni, Room 203). ✅ Sign up now – free event! tinyurl.com/3prbyhkd 👉 For more information, click here: tinyurl.com/mpd2pzuj

My work w/ @alderotti.bsky.social “Migrants’ health in Italy: do the union status and the partner’s nationality matter?” has been honored as one of the top three under-40 paper at the 59th Scientific Meeting of SIEDS in Naples! “La Sapienza” @florenceups.bsky.social 👉🏻 www.sieds.it/index.php/20...

@agostino.bsky.social PhD at Sapienza University presented his research about #housing tenure trajectories & health across #Europe at #YD2024 Conference!

Agostino Cristofalo@agostino.bsky.social · 2y ago

This morning I joined the poster session at the #YoungDemographers Conference in Prague with my work on housing tenure trajectories and health in later life. Such a nice experience! #YD2024

This morning I joined the poster session at the #YoungDemographers Conference in Prague with my work on housing tenure trajectories and health in later life. Such a nice experience! #YD2024

🎉 Many congratulations to Daniele Vignoli, who was awarded the 🏆European Demographer Award🏆 2023 by Population Europe at the Berlin Demography Days! Well deserved! 👏👏👏

🔵 Exciting news! UPS - the Unit of Population Studies at the University of Florence is now on Bluesky! 🎉 👉 Stay up-to-date with our latest research and join this vibrant community. Spread the word and invite your fellow thinkers to connect with us!

New paper by @stefanischerer.bsky.social, Pavolini, & @elibrini.bsky.social find that public & private childcare services have limited but positive short-term effects on fertility in Italy contingent on specific socio-demographic groups. @csisunitn.bsky.social genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

📢 New article with E. Barbiano di Belgiojoso, S. Rimoldi & L. Terzera “#Migrants’ choices pertaining to informal #childcare in Italy and France: a complex relationship between the #origin and #destination countries” out in Population, Space & Place! 👉🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....