Brown Bag Seminars

The Brown Bag Seminars (BBS) offer an opportunity to share empirical research findings and to confront ideas among colleagues. In particular, the BBS aim to contribute to the debate on the evolution of (social) inequalities – sociology's object of study par excellence – in all its forms in 'post-industrial' societies. We are convinced that a rigorous empirical analysis of social inequality can both contribute to the enhancement of the current scientific debate and to the training of future social scientists. The BBS are open to everyone who is willing to follow two simple rules: presentations are focused on original theory-driven empirical pieces of research, and the discussion is open regardless of academic status.

Previously BBS have been supported by the ERC-project 'FamIne' (Families of Inequalities) which has been incorporated in the CSIS research unit.

• 7 July, "Collective Bargaining in the Age of Demographic Transition: Regulating an Ageing Workforce in Italy and the Netherlands", Luigi Burroni (Università di Firenze)
• 14 May, "Till death do us part. The gender division of housework across the life course", Anna Zamberlan (LMU Munich)
• 12 February, "Abortion rates and birth outcomes: evidence from Spain", Marco Cozzani (University of Florence)
• 22 January, "Cumulative Inequality and Attitude Formation: How education buffers against rising concerns across the life course", Fabian Kratz (LMU)
• 4 December, "Leveraging workforce flexibility to navigate platform-induced uncertainty", Dario Guarascio (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") 
• 20 November, "Political Socialisation and Electoral Participation over the Life Course. Class, Family and the Reproduction of Inequality", Giacomo Melli (Oxford)
• 9 October, "Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions", Gian Maria Campedelli (FBK)

• 24 January, “Fertility in Comparative Perspective - Euregio Ring Seminar in Trento”, Roberta Rutigliano (Basque) and Tiziana Nazio (Turin)
• 18 February, “Women's unemployment and job-seeking challenges after 50”, Helen Kowalewska (Bath)
• 20 February, “Parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems”, Peter Fallesen (Rockwool/SOFI)
• 6 March, “Sibling correlation in Italy: new evidence from an administrative survey linked dataset”, Massimo Aprea (Roma, La Sapienza) and Filippo Gioachin (Trento)
• 14 March, “Fertility in Comparative Perspective - Euregio Ring Seminar in Innsbruck”, Giulia Cavrini and Elisa Cisotto (Bozen) and Valeria Bordone (Wien)
• 21 March, “Fertility in Comparative Perspective - Euregio Ring Seminar in Brixen”, Wilfred Uunk (Innsbruck) and Eva Beaujouan (Wien)
• 30 April, “Low-pay Work in Europe: Dynamics, Evolution and the Role of Institutional Factors”, Chiara Mussida (Cattolica)
• 16 May, “Fertility in Comparative Perspective - Euregio Ring Seminar in Trento”, Alessandro Di Nallo (MPDIR) and Willem Adema (OECD)
• 22 May, “Refugee Migration and Trust in the Context of Multiple Crises”, Alexander Patzina (Bamberg)
• 15 November, “Fertility in Comparative Perspective - Euregio Ring Seminar in Innsbruck”, Agnese Vitali (Trento) and Irene Michelin (Trento)
• 21 November, “Us yesterday, them today: Leveraging emigration history to increase pro-immigrant attitudes”, Elie Murard (Trento)
• 13 December, “Fertility in Comparative Perspective - Euregio Ring Seminar in Brixen”, Stefani Scherer (Trento) and Alessandra Trimarchi (Messina)

• 2 November, “Grandparenting, well-being and cognitive functioning”, Valeria Bordone (Wien)
• 14 December, “Parental homogamy and children’s educational attainment; The participation and inequality in gig economy: evidence from China”, Pia Blossfeld (Innsbruck) and Mingming Li (Innsbruck/CEU)*
• 19 January, “Gender inequality in employment trajectoriers, later life income, and wealth; Family background and life cycle earnings volatility. Evidence from sibling correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States”, Katja Möhring (Bamberg) and Filippo Gioachin (Trento)*
• 25 January, “Family migration and women's occupational attainment over the life course”, Nazareno Panichella (Milan)
• 11 April, “Educational upgrading and labor market inequality by social origin”, Steffen Schindler (Bamberg)
• 12 April, “Re-theorizing sociogenomics research on the gene-by-family socioeconomic status (GxSES) interaction for educational attainment; Trends and cross-national differences in educational homogamy in Europe. The role of educational composition”, Gaia Ghirardi (EUI) and Wilfred Uunk (Innsbruck)*
• 9 May, “Generational trends and predictors of hormonal contraceptive use in Germany: A machine learning approach”, Theresa Nutz (GESIS)
• 11 July, “National Work-Family Policies and Gender Earnings Inequality in 26 OECD Countries, 1999–2019”, Jennifer Hook (University of Southern California)

* part of the Ring Seminar on "Education, Family and Employment over the Life-Course" organized in collaboration with the University of Innsbruck and funded by EUREGIO                           

• 29 September, “The Gender-Equality Paradox regarding math intentions. An illusionary paradox?”, Wilfred Uunk (Innsbruck)
• 13 October, “Sandwiched life courses. Cross-national patterns and consequences on older people's well being”, Marco Albertini (Bologna)
• 3 November*, “Do brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap? Evidence on the common family origins of attainment in the United States and Denmark”, Kristian Karlson (Copenaghen)
• 24 January, “Towards a better understanding of poverty in the Italian labour market”, Giovanni Gallo (Modena e Reggio Emilia)
• 23 February, “Ethnic rent penalties in the German housing market”, Tobias Roth (GESIS Mannheim)
• 20 April*, “Maternal free time: a missing element in fertility studies”, Ewa Jarosz (Warsaw)
• 4 May, “The link between previous life trajectories and a later-life outcome”, Danilo Bolano (Bocconi)
• 18 May*, “How much integration is wanted? A vignette study on outgroup mobility threat (OMT) in Germany”, Frank Kalter (Mannheim)

* in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Social Sciences

• 7 October, “Family dissolution process and children smoking behaviour: what has lit the cigarette?”, Marta Pasqualini (Sciences Po)
• 11 November, “Double disadvantage? Between and within country social inequalities and intergenerational transfers”, Ariane Bertogg (University of Konstanz)
• 8 March*, “Lectio Magistralis - Quo Vadis Familia?”, Gosta Esping-Andersen (Bocconi/UPF)
• 28 April, “Presentazione di ‘La mano invisibile dello stato sociale’ (il Mulino)”, Emmanuele Pavolini (Macerata)
• 19 May*, “Understanding the 'Why' and 'When' Aspects of Ethnic Discrimination”, Katrin Auspurg (LMU)
• 20 May*, “How to Further Reproducibility and Research Quality in Social Sciences”, Katrin Auspurg (LMU) and Josef Brüderl (LMU)
• 26 May, “What is Wrong With (Research on) Ability-Tracking”, Hartmut Esser (Mannheim)
• 7 June, “Learning Loss and Students’ Social Origins During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy”, Antonio Schizzerotto (IRVAPP/Trento)

* in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Social Sciences

• 1 October, “Time, money, and parenthood in the United States: the role of (grand-)parental support”, Roberta Rutigliano (University of Groningen)
• 12 November, “Temporary employment risk: a comparative study of trends and group distribution in european countries”, Jonathan Latner (University of Bamberg)
• 21 January*, “The impact of minimum wages on teenagers' educational plans”, Silke Anger (IAB)
• 18 February, “Dividing labor, sharing assets? Dyadic employment biographies and the intra-couple wealth gap in britain and germany”, Theresa Nutz (Humboldt University) and Davide Gritti (University of Trento)
• 11 March*, “The reversal of the gender gap in education in Europe: changing gender inequalities, changing families?”, Jan Van Bavel (KU Leuven)
• 18 March*, “Migration, class attainment and social mobility. An analysis of migrants’ socio-economic integration in Italy”, Nazareno Panichella (University of Milan)
• 15 April, “Work-family policies and women’s lifelong learning”, Gundula Zoch (LifBi - Bamberg)
• 20 May*, “The impact of transversal skills on the labour market: evidence from the semantic analysis of online job postings”, Fabio Manca (OECD)
• 3 June, “Assortative mating and wealth inequalities between and within households: evidence from Germany and the United States”, Philipp M. Lersch (Humboldt University)
• 10 June*, “The enduring impact of NYC's Stop, Question & Frisk Program. Lesson from ‘Big Data’”, Joscha Legewie (Harvard University)

* in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Social Sciences

• 17 October*, “Breadwinning, main-earning and subjective wellbeing”, Agnese Vitali (University of Trento)
• 7 November, “Persistent inequality at birth. Socioeconomic differences in birth outcomes in three british cohorts”, Marco Cozzani (EUI)
• 12 December, “Immigration and self-employment in Western Europe”, Gabriele Ballarino (University of Milan)
• 23 January*, “Segregation and polarization: two sides of the same coin or not? Insights from computer simulation studies and empirical research”, Andreas Flache (University of Groningen)
• 13 February, “Trade liberalization and labor market institutions”, Arlo Poletti (University of Trento) and Mattia Guidi (Siena University)
• 26 March, “Women’s relative resources and couples’ gender balance in financial decision making in europe”, Jan Van Bavel (KU Leuven)
• 3 April, “What determines voting behaviors of Muslim minorities in Europe: Muslim identity or left-right ideology?”, Marc Swyngedouw (KU Leuven)
• 6 April, “Ethnic educational inequalities”, Karen Phalet (KU Leuven)
• 21 May*, “Ethnic diversity and social integration”, Frank Kalter (Mannheim University)
• 4 June, “Does schooling affect social inequality in achievement? New evidence from a causal design”, Giampiero Passaretta (EUI)

*  in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Social Sciences

• 27 September, “Transitioning toward more equality? Wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time”, Daniela Piazzalunga (Verona)
• 17 October, “Intergenerational Occupational Reproduction in Comparative Perspective: Cross-sectional and Over-time Variations in 56 Societies”, Harry Ganzeboom (Amsterdam)
• 8 November, “Care Availability and Matthew Effect”, Emmanuele Pavolini (Macerata)
• 4 December, “Returns to education from different perspectives. Macro determinants, micro mechanisms, and unconventional educational pathways in the trasition/s from school to work”, Simone Virdia (Trento)
• 21 February, “Educational Inequality and Educational Transitions”, Juho Härkönen (EUI)
• 20 March, “Complex Contagions and the Diffusion of Innovations: Evidence from a Small-N Study.”, Gianluca Manzo (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne)
• 11 April, “Science under siege? Modern-day discontents and the public legitimacy of science”, Peter Achterberg (Tilburg)
• 23 May, “Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? The Effect of Emigration on Fertility in Italian Provinces during the Great Recession”, Nicoletta Balbo (Bocconi)
• 6 June, “No evidence of discrimination against women in peer review in 145 scholarly journals”, Flaminio Squazzoni (Milan)
• 13 June, “Parental separation and child wellbeing: addressing different separation scenarios”, Raffaele Grotti (EUI)

• 12 October, “Geographical mobility and occupational achievement in contemporary Italy.”, Gabriele Ballarino and Nazareno Panichella (Milan)
• 19 October, “Race and Stratification in U.S. College Enrollment over Time.”, Daniel Klasik (George Washington)
• 10 November*, “Less State, more Family? Restructuring long-term care policies in northern Europe and intergenerational solidarity.”, Barbara Da Roit (Ca' Foscari)
• 8 February, “Does Mobility Affect Child Development? A Comparative Study of Pre-school Children in the UK and the US.”, Ludovica Gambaro (DIW)
• 15 February, “Is Cultural Participation a Positional Good?”, Tally Katz-Gerro (Manchester)
• 15 February, “Economic Integration and Electoral Outcomes in Italy”, Mauro Caselli, Andrea Fracasso, Silvio Traverso (Trento)
• 8 March, “A new tool for old questions: The Sequence-Analysis Multistate Model procedure for estimating the relationship between time-varying covariates and trajectories”, Emanuela Struffolino (WZB)
• 22 March, “Book presentation - ‘La famiglia è in crisi’ FALSO!”, Maria Castiglioni and Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna (Padova)
• 22 March, “Family, Firms, and Fertility: A study of Network effects”, Henriette Engelhardt-Woelfler (Bamberg)
• 5 April, “Is Italian sociology still in the doldrums? La produzione scienitifica dei sociologi italiani nelle due VQR”, Emilio Reyneri (Bicocca)
• 17 May, “The Effect of Multigrade Classes on Cognitive and non-Cognitive Skills. Causal Evidence Exploiting Minimum Class Size Rules in Italy”, Maria De Paola (Calabria)
• 31 May, “Student Loan Debt and Riskiness: Consequences for Later Life Transitions”, Anna Manzoni (Carolina State)
• 7 June, “Employment Protection Legislation and Mismatch: Evidence from a Reform”, Fabio Berton and Francesco Devicienti (Turin)

• 5 October*, “Deviations from normative family trajectories and life satisfaction at older ages”, Bruno Arpino (UPF)
• 3 November, “Determinants and trends of in-work poverty in a Southern European context. A longitudinal analysis”, Paolo Barbieri and Giorgio Cutuli (Trento)
• 12 December*, “Educational Reproduction: A Prospective Approach”, Richard Breen (Oxford)
• 2 March, “The generation gap: a cohort analysis of earnings levels, dispersion and initial labor market conditions in Italy, 1974-2014”, Alfonso Rosolia (Banca d'Italia)
• 31 March, “The motherhood wage gap and discrimination: Swiss evidence from panel data and a factorial survey experiment”, Daniel Oesch (Lausanne)
• 3 April, “Does genetic influence on education change across neighbourhood?”, Nicola Barban (Oxford)
• 4 May, “Gender effects in research evaluation”, Roberto Torrini (Banca d'Italia)
• 9 June, “Does gender trump family ties? Intra-couple and inter-siblings sharings of caring responsibilities for elderly parents and in-laws”, Tiziana Nazio (Turin)

• 22 October, “Changes in the Satisfaction of Cohabitors relative to Spouses over time”, Daniele Vignoli (Florence)
• 5 November, “Cosmologies of Destinations: Roots and routes of Eritrean forced migrants towards Europe”, Milena Belloni (Trento)
• 16 December, “Una mappatura delle disuguaglianze sociali nell'istruzione. L'Italia in prospettiva comparata”, Moris Triventi (EUI)
• 4 February, “Intergenerational mobility in the very long run: Florence 1427-2011”, Sauro Mocetti (Banca d'Italia)
• 3 March, “Early and late career trajectories in the Netherlands”, Maarten Wolbers and Mark Visser (ITS, Radboud University)
• 14 April, “The Euro are wage distribution over the crisis”, Alfonso Rosolia (Banca d'Italia)
• 5 May, “Presentation of the book ‘Capitalismi a confronto. Istituzioni e regolazione dell'economia nei paesi europei’”, Luigi Burroni (Florence)
• 9 June, “What Future for the Eurozone?”, Ton Notermans (Tallin)

• 9 October, “The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education (Teachers' Room at the first floor)”, Simone Schüller (IRVAPP)
• 6 November, “Italian workers careers by educational attainments: new evidences from AD-SILC”, Michele Raitano (Rome)
• 4 December, “The consequences of union dissolution for employment in Italy and the United States”, Michele Lugo and Paolo Barbieri (Trento)
• 22 January, “Economic crisis, welfare-labour market arrangements and unemployment in Europe”, Paolo Barbieri and Giorgio Cutuli (Trento)
• 5 February, “The Bologna Process in Italy. A reassessment of its influences on university enrolments and inequalities of educational opportunities”, Antonio Schizzerotto (Trento/IRVAPP) and Loris Vergolini (IRVAPP)
• 16 April, “Do information contacts increase labor market inequality? Social ties, job access and wages for the unemployed”, Daniel Oesch (Lausanne)
• 7 May, “ 'You are not meant for it'. An ethnography on middle school teachers' guidance practices”, Marco Romito (Milan)
• 4 June, “Is education the great equalizer? Family background, education and occupational attainment in comparative perspective”, Gabriele Ballarino (Milan)

• 19 September, “Expansion of schooling and educational inequality in Europe”, Francesco Scervini (Turin) and Elena Meschi (Ca' Foscari)
• 7 November, “The incorporation of immigrants in the receiving labour market. Usual and innovative ways of analysis for the Italian case”, Emilio Reyneri and Giovanna Fullin (Bicocca)
• 12 December, “Couple inequalities in time devoted to paid and unpaid work. The role of unobserved gender motivation.”, Alvaro Martinez-Perez (Sheffield)
• 9 January, “Perceived fairness and the gendered division of labour: some preliminary findings from an experimental vignette design”, Renzo Carriero and Lorenzo Todesco (Turin)
• 6 February, “Education and fertility in a cross-national context”, Ross Macmillan (Bocconi)
• 27 March, “Comparative policy perspectives of happiness and parenthood”, Letizia Mencarini (Turin)
• 3 April, “Discussing the concept of Integration: Towards an Interactive, Multidimensional and Dinamic Process Conceptualization”, Marc Swyngedouw (Leuven)
• 22 May, “Education and Social Mobility in Italy in the XXth century”, Carlo Barone and Raffaele Guetto (Trento)
• 5 June, “Only a vocation? Labor market opportunities, occupational choices and the quality of the teaching workforce”, Gianluca Argentin (Bicocca)

• 13 September*, “Inequality reduction through vocational paths?”, Steffen Schindler (HIS/Hannover)
• 4 October, “De-commodification and de-familisation in western Europe: a reassessment through the living standard approach”, Federico Podestà (OPES) and Sonia Marzadro (OPES)
• 8 November, “Divorce in multiple equilibria - an application to Germany”, Daniela Bellani and Gosta Esping-Andersen (UPF)
• 6 December, “Secularization or religious revival? Measuring church attendance trend in Italy using multilevel analysis”, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi (Milan) and Cristiano Vezzoni (Trento)
• 17 January, “Employment regimes, labour market dualism and inequality in Europe”, Paolo Barbieri and Giorgio Cutuli (Trento)
• 7 February, “Is Fertility in the Genes? Unravelling gene-environment interactions and fertility”, Nicola Barban (Groningen)
• 7 March, “Social-origin inequalities in educational careers in Italy. Performance or decision effects?”, Dalit Contini and Andrea Scagni (Turin)
• 4 April, “Insegnare a insegnare? La valutazione di due politiche formative per insegnanti di scuola media”, Giovanni Abbiati (Milan)
• 6 June, “Early career patterns in Italy: a cross-cohort comparison”, Emanuela Struffolino (Bicocca)

• 15 September, “Inequality of opportunity for young people in Italy: understanding the role of circumstances”, Gabriella Berloffa, Francesca Modena, Paola Villa (Trento)
• 21 October, “The European Values Study 1981-2008: four waves of comparative research. What can we learn from it and how can we use the data on the micro and macro level”, Ruud Luijkxs (Tilburg)
• 3 November, “Educational achievement gaps between immigrants and native students in two ‘new immigration countries’: Italy and Spain in comparison”, Davide Azzolini (Trento), Philipp Schnell (Vienna), John Palmer (Princenton)
• 1 December, “Sono razionali gli attentatori suicidi?”, Domenico Tosini (Trento)
• 19 January, “Institutional reforms and educational attainment in europe: a lung run perspective”, Michela Braga (Milan), Daniele Checchi (Milan), Elena Meschi (Ca' Foscari)
• 2 February, “Does the gender wage gap grow through the early career?”, Leen Vandecasteele (EUI)
• 1 March, “The weight of the genetic and environmental dimensions in the inter-generational transmission of educational success”, Mario Lucchini (Milan-Bicocca), Sara Della Bella (Trento)
• 16 March, “Presentazione del rapporto sulla scuola in italia 2011 della fondazione agnelli”, Stefano Molina, Gianfranco De Simone (Fondazione Agnelli)
• 12 April, “Much ado about nothing: threat of grade retention and education reforms in Italy”, Erich Battistin, Ilaria Covizzi, Antonio Schizzerotto (IRVAPP)
• 3 May, “How far is the capital city? Geographical remoteness as an element of the centre-periphery cleavage, and its impact on individual vote choice”, Lorenzo De Sio (LUISS), Cristiano Vezzoni (Trento)
• 7 June, “And their children after them? Estimating the effect of college on educational reproduction”, Richard Breen (Yale)

• 4 November, “Povertà e deprivazione in europa”, Sabrina Carrossa (Trento)
• 2 December, “Geographic mobility and reproductive choices of italian men”, Raffaele Guetto (Trento) and Nazareno Panichella (Milan)
• 13 January, “The two last decades of inequality trends in italy: the changing structure of inequality and the ‘losing generation’”, Marco Albertini (Bologna)
• 10 February, “Divisione del lavoro domestico e percezione di giustizia: il ruolo dei confronti interpresonali, un modello di simulazione”, Renzo Carrieri (Turin)
• 3 March, “Educational expansion, equality of opportunity and credential inflation: a comparative analysis”, Gabriele Ballarino (Milan) and Fabrizio Bernardi (EUI)
• 7 April, “Intergenerational and intragenerational social mobility in a micro-class perspective”, Reinhand Pollak (WZB)
• 5 May, “Il gioco d’azzardo: l’iniquità di una tassa volontaria. La relazione tra condizioni socio-economiche, partecipazione e spesa nei giochi tra le famiglie italiane, 1999-2009.”, Moris Triventi (Milan-Bicocca) and Simone Sarti (Milan)
• 9 June, “I trasferimenti finanziari a favore degli studenti universitari: una valutazione d’impatto”, Loris Vergolini and Nadir Zanini (IRVAPP)