LETIZIA MENCARINI
Courses a.y. 2023/2024
30593 INTERNATIONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS AND CHALLENGES
41023 DEMOGRAPHY
41031 INEQUALITY, GENDER AND POLICY
Courses previous a.y.
Biographical note
I am Professor of Demography at Department of Social and Political Science at Bocconi University; Fellow at the DONDENA Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University and at the Center for Demography and Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I am an expert of Population Europe, among the Leading Women Scientists of AcademiaNet, and Associate Editor for European Journal of Population and Population Review.
I am also in the editorial board of Neodemos, an online Italian blog on population, society and politics.
About
Professor of Demography
Research interests
My research interests focus on family demography (life–course analysis, fertility, transition to adulthood, family formation and disruption) and its links with well-being, time use, gender diversity and migration in a policy and welfare state perspective.
I am author of numerous papers published in international scientific journals and of books in Italian about “women, job market and fertility” and “demographic trap” in Italy for the general public.
Working papers
Life-course perspective on personality traits and fertility with sequence analysis
Royal Statistical Society A, forthcoming
Selected Publications
What tears couples apart: a machine learning analysis of union dissolution in Germany
DEMOGRAPHY, online first: 9648346, 2022
Employment uncertainty and fertility intentions: stability or resilience?
POPULATION STUDIES, ahead-of-print, 1-20, 2022
The association between COVID-19 policy responses and mental well-being: evidence from 28 European countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, on-line first, 2022
Early assessment of the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and births in highincome countries
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 118 (36): e2105709118, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and human fertility
SCIENCE, 369(6502): 370-371, 2020
Is the effect of job uncertainty on fertility intentions channeled by subjective well-being?
ADVANCES IN LIFE COURSE RESEARCH, vol. 46: 100343, 2020
Trust and fertility in uncertain times
POPULATION STUDIES, 75:1, 19-36, 2021
Does income moderate the satisfaction of becoming a parent? In Germany it does and depends on education
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, 32(3): 915-952, 2019
Fertility and life satisfaction in rural Ethiopia
DEMOGRAPHY, 54 (4): 1331–1351, 2017