Social Demography – Students’ Presentations

Thursday 11 December 2025

During this event, students attending the Social Demography course will present their individual research projects. Non-attending students, students of other modules/degree courses and teaching staff are welcome to support presenters and provide constructive feedback.

Session 1: Union formation    

Chair:     Max Summerer    
Demographic Squeeze in the Age of Algorithms: Education, Partner Markets and the New Constraints on Union Formation
Andrea Toncelli    
Discussant: Laura Spezzaferri     
    
Too Different to Date? Political Polarization and Singlehood in Europe
Sofia Molle    
Discussant: Andrea Zuliani    

    
Session 2: Union types and partners' characteristics    

Chair: Sofia Molle
LGBTQI+ people and heterosexuals: at what age does cohabitation start?
Andrea Zuliani    
Discussant: Max Summerer    
    
Religiousness, generational cohort and non-marital cohabitation: a comparison between Italy and France
Giulia Di Cicco Pucci
Discussant: Elif Yagmur Sahbudak     
    
Partner characteristics of successful women
Max Summerer    
Discussant: Andrea Toncelli    

    
Session 3: Selected topics on the populations of Türkiye and Rwanda    

Chair: Andrea Zuliani
Fertility Change in Türkiye and Southern Europe (1990–2020): The Role of Gender, Education, Employment and Family Policies
Elif Yagmur Sahbudak    
Discussant: Giulia Di Cicco Pucci    
    
The Long-Term Consequences of the Rwandan Genocide
Laura Spezzaferri    
Discussant: Sofia Molle    
    
12:45-14:00 Break    

    
Session 4: Living arrangements and demographic outcomes    

Chair: Andrea Toncelli

Leaving in a Golden Nest: Age at leaving home and fertility outcomes
Libero Rambaldi    
Discussant: Nina Skorokhodova    
    
Living with sisters: the influence of sibling composition on men's housework participation
Federica Vertemati    
Discussant: Lucrezia Rampazzo    

    
Session 5: Social stratification of demographic outcomes    

Chair: Federica Vertemati
    
How social capital is associated with the transition to adulthood
Miriam Bramucci    
Discussant: Libero Rambaldi    
    
Unemployment and Union Dissolution
Lucrezia Rampazzo    
Discussant: Miriam Bramucci

    
Session 6: Reproductive intentions and behaviors  

  
Chair: Libero Rambaldi
    
Reproductive attitudes of Russian youth in the context of precarity and transformation of the modern family: a qualitative study
Nina Skorokhodova    
Discussant: Fatna Bargach    
    
The East Asian fertility crisis: unraveling the impact of intensive parenting on parity progression
Michela Vanzini    
Discussant: Dario Ribaudo    

Session 7: Mobility, migration and second generations    

Chair: Lucrezia Rampazzo
    
Will the immigrant population save Italy from the demographic decline? An insight into the second-generation union formation
Fatna Bargach    
Discussant: Michela Vanzini    
    
Profiling Summer Mountain Visitors in Trentino: A Demographic Approach to Alpine Tourism and Mountain Huts Use
Dario Ribaudo    
Discussant: Federica Vertemati