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69: Cooperating against inequality? War and commons in Renaissance Lombardy

Matteo Di Tullio

68: Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population distributions

Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski and Guido Alfani

67: Economic inequality and growth before the industrial revolution: A case study of the Low Countries (14th-19th centuries)

Wouter Ryckbosch

66: Concentration in survival times and longevity: The log-scale-location family of failure time models

Chiara Gigliarano, Ugofilippo Basellini and Marco Bonetti

65: Misurare la diseguaglianza economica nell’età preindustriale: un confronto fra realtà dell’Italia centro-settentrionale

Francesco Ammannati, Davide De Franco and Matteo Di Tullio

64: Gender differences in exposure to more instruction time. Evidence from Italy

Elena Meroni and Giovanni Abbiati

63: No News, Big News. The political consequences of entertainment TV

Ruben Durante, Paolo Pinotti and Andrea Tesei

62: Expected happiness from childbearing and its realization

Arnstein Aassve, Anna Barbuscia and Letizia Mencarini

61: Economic inequality in northwestern Italy: A long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries)

Guido Alfani

60: Beyond Good Intentions: The Decision-Making Process of Leaving the Family of Origin in Italy

Giulia Ferrari, Alessandro Rosina and Emiliano Sironi

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 and Roberto Impiacciatore

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

Guido Alfani and Roberta Frigeni

57: Youth Vulnerability in Europe during the Great Recession

Arnstein Aassve, Elena Cottini and Agnese Vitali

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

Nicoletta Balbo, Nicola Barban and Melinda Mills

55: Trust and fertility dynamics

Arnstein Aassve, Francesco Billari and LÈa Pessin

54: The Economic Costs of Organized Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy

Paolo Pinotti

53: Trust, Firm Organization and the Structure of Production

Federico Cingano and Paolo Pinotti

52: Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants

Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Paolo Pinotti

51: Policy perspectives of grandparenting in Europe

Valeria Bordone, Bruno Arpino and Arnstein Aassve

50: Does fertility behavior spread among friends?

Nicoletta Balbo and Nicola Barban

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

Mikko Myrskyla, Hans-Peter Kohler and Francesco Billari

48: Using panel data to partially identify HIV prevalence When HIV status is not missing at random

Bruno Arpino, Elisabetta De Cao and Franco Peracchi

47: A qualitative analysis of the role of paid and unpaid jobs in a lowest low fertility context: The puzzling intention for a second child

Laura Cavalli

46: The educational aspirations of children of immigrants in Italy

Minello Mencarini and Nicola Barban

45: Leaving mum alone? The effect of parental divorce on childrenís leaving home decisions

Letizia Mencarini, Elena Meroni and Chiara Pronzato

44: Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe

Alessandra Casarico, Paola Profeta and Chiara Pronzato

43: The height production function from birth to early adulthood

Elisabetta De Cao

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

Lara Tavares and Arnstein Aassve

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

Nicola Barban and Francesco Billari

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

Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon and Agnese Vitali

39: Family trajectories and health: A life course perspective

Nicola Barban

38: Grandparenting and childbearing in the extended family

Arnstein Aassve, Elena Meroni and Chiara Pronzato

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

Rebecca Graziani and Nico Keilman

36: Grandparenting and mothersí labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey

Arnstein Aassve, Bruno Arpino and Alice Goisis

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

Marisa Ponti, Stefano Renzi and Jane Klobas

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

Drew Fudenberg, David Levine and Zacharias Maniadis

33: Stochastic population forecasts based on conditional expert opinions

Francesco Billari, Rebecca Graziani and Eugenio Mellili

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

Arnstein Aassve, Bruno Arpino and Francesco Billari

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

Agnese Vitali and Bruno Arpino

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

Paul Jackson and Jane Klobas

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

Maria Iacovou and Lara Tavares

28: Economic downturn and stress testing European welfare systems

Francesco Figari, Andrea Salvatori and Holly Sutherland

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

Guido Alfani

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

Roberto Impicciatore and Francesco Billari

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

Guido Alfani and Vincent Gourdon

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

Francesco Figari, Alari Paulus and Holly Sutherland

23: Recent fertility trends and second birth decision-making in Georgia

Nicoletta Balbo

22: Life expectancy, economic prosperity and retirement preferences

Arnstein Aassve, Cristina Ruggeri and Zsolt SpÈder

21: Simulations and agent-based modelling

Jacopo Baggio and Rodolfo Baggio

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

Lars Dommermuth, Jane Klobas and Trude LappegÂrd

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

Bruno Arpino and Roberta Varriale

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

Marta Rohana Lopez

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

Agnese Vitali

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

Gabriella Conti and Stephen Pudney

15: A simple implementation of Schelling's segregation model in NetLogo

Fabrizio Iozzi

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

Chiara Pronzato

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

Bruno Arpino and Arnstein Aassve

12: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior with qualitative research

Stefano Renzi and Jane Klobas

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

Daniela Del Boca, Silvia Pasqua and Chiara Pronzato

10: Happiness and childbearing across Europe

Arnstein Aassve, Maria Sironi and Alice Goisis

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

Lara Tavares

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

Magne Mogstad and Chiara Pronzato

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

Rodolfo Baggio, Noel Scott and Chris Cooper

6: The specification of the propensity score in multilevel observational studies

Bruno Arpino and Fabrizia Mealli

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

Chiara Pronzato

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

Alessandra Carioli

3: Disuguaglianze nella durata della vita per grado d'istruzione in Italia all'inizio degli anni 2000

Carlo Maccheroni

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

Jane Klobas, Stefano Renzi and Maria Luisa Nigrelli

1: Preference theory and low fertility: A comparative perspective

Agnese Vitali, Francesco Billari, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz and Maria Rita Testa