By appointment (please write an email to: daniele.vignoli@unifi.it) 

Daniele Vignoli is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence, where he teaches ‘Demography’, ‘Family Demography’, ‘Quantitative Methods for Population Studies’, and ‘Longitudinal Data Analysis’. He is the scientific coordinator of the University of Florence Population and Society Unit. Currently, he leads an ERC Consolidator Grant on ‘Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe’, a Miur-FARE Grant on ‘Uncertainty and Fertility: Narratives’, and a Miur-Prin Grant on ‘The Great Demographic Recession’. He is Editor-in-Chief of GENUS – Journal of Population Sciences and co-director of FloPS (Florence Population Studies), a collaboration between the European University Institute and the University of Florence. His research addresses: Family demography; Social demography; Life course. In 2020, he received the Dirk J. van de Kaa Award for Social Demography from the European Association for Population Studies for “outstanding achievements by an individual scholar in social demography, and the interplay of population dynamics and social change”. Personal website: www.danielevignoli.com

(For more information see: www.danielevignoli.com)

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS

• Dec. 2017–current: Full Professor of Demography, University of Florence
• Scientific Coordinator of the University of Florence Population and Society Unit (UPS)
• Vice-President of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP)
• 2017–current: Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant “Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe, EU-FER” (~1.7 million Euros)
• 2020–current: Principal Investigator of the Miur-FARE Grant “Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe: Narratives” (~270,000 Euros)
• 2019–current: Principal Investigator of the Miur-Prin Grant “The Great Demographic Recession, GDR” (~580,000 Euros)
• 2019–current: Co-Director of Florence Population Studies (FloPS)
• 2018–current: Editor-in-Chief of GENUS, Journal of Population Sciences

AWARDS

•  2020: Dirk J. van de Kaa Award for Social Demography from the European Association for Population Studies for “outstanding achievements by an individual scholar in social demography, and the interplay of population dynamics and social change”. The jury considered “his work innovative both theoretical and methodological”.
• 2022: Demographic Research Editor’s Choice Award for the paper: Giammarco Alderotti, Cecilia Tomassini, and Daniele Vignoli (2022). ‘Silver splits’ in Europe: The role of grandchildren and other correlates. Demographic Research, 46: 619–652.
• 2021: Demographic Research Editor’s Choice Award for the paper: Danilo Bolano and Daniele Vignoli (2021). Union Formation Under Conditions of Uncertainty: The Objective and Subjective Sides of Employment Uncertainty. Demographic Research, 45: 141-186.
• 2016: Demographic Research Editor’s Choice Award for the paper: Daniele Vignoli, Valentina Tocchioni, and Silvana Salvini (2016). Uncertain lives: Insights into the role of job precariousness in union formation in Italy. Demographic Research, 35: 253-282

MANAGEMENT (SELECTION)

• 2018-current: Coordinator of the University of Florence Observatory on Research
• 2020-current: Member of "Commissione di Indirizzo e Autovalutazione" of DiSIA
• 2017-current: Member of the University of Florence ERC Task Force
• 2018-2021: Member of the University of Florence Observatory on Research
• 2017–2020: Director of the Master Program in Development of Sustainable Tourism Systems, University of Florence
• 2015–2016: Vice-Director of the Master Program in Statistics, Actuarial and Financial Sciences, University of Florence

EDUCATION

• 2005–2008: PhD in Demography, Department of Demographic Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
• 2005–2006: European Research Master of Demography. Degree of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2005/2006 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

• 2015–2017: Associate Professor of Demography, University of Florence
• 2009–2015: Assistant Professor of Demography (Permanent Position), University of Florence
• 2008–2009: Post-Doc Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
• 2007–2009: Research Fellow, Department of Statistics “G. Parenti”, University of Florence
• 2006–2007: Winter Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

REFEREE ACTIVITY

• Projects evaluator: Academy of Finland; European Commission (ERC, NORFACE); French National Research Agency; Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR); the Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO); Croatia Science Foundation (Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost, HRZZ); National Science Centre Poland (Naradowe Centrum Nauki)
• Referee for journals: Advances in Quality of Life Research; Advances in Life Course Research; Annals of Applied Statistics; Comparative Population Studies; Demography; Demographic Research; European Journal of Population; European Sociological Review; Feminist Economics; Genus; International Migration Review; Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization; Journal of Family Issues; Journal of Marriage and Family; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A; Journal of Population Research; Population; Population, Space and Place; Population Research and Policy Review; Population Studies; Regional Studies; Social Indicators Research; Studies in Family Planning, Time and Society, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research

BOARDS OF PhDs, SUPERVISION OF PhD STUDENTS AND POST-DOCS

• 2018–current: Board of PhD program in “Mutamento Sociale e Politico”, University of Florence
• 2013–2017: Board of PhD program in “Matematica, Informatica, Statistica”, University of Florence
• Supervision of PhD students: Maria Francesca Morabito; Elena Bastianelli; Giulia Torelli; Giammarco Alderotti; Michele Mozzachiodi; Ilaria Vannini; Cristina Ocello
• Supervision of Post-docs: Patrizio Lodetti (2020-current); Giammarco Alderotti (2019-current); Giacomo Bazzani (2018-current); Daniela Bellani (2019-2020); Massimo Nocentini (2019); Niccolò Innocenti (2017-current); Alessandra Minello (2018); Valentina Tocchioni (2016-2018); Elena Ruviglioni (2015)

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES (PAST ROLES AND MEMBERSHIPS)

• 2016–2020: Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS)
• 2013–2015: Elected member of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (AIQUAV). Role: Secretary
• 2009–2011: Elected member of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP). Role: Secretary
• Memberships: AISP (Italian Association for Population Studies); EAPS (European Association for Population Studies); IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population); PAA (Population Association of America); SIS (Statistical Italian Society)

PAST PROJECTS COORDINATION

• 2016–2017: Principal Investigator of the Italian grant “Famiglie e Benessere: Dinamiche e Relazioni” (30,000 Euros), University of Florence Strategic Projects 2016
• 2012–2015: Coordinator of Italian Research Unit. Project “Childbearing within Cohabitation” (10,000 Euros). Funding: ERC Starting Grant. Principal Investigator: Prof. Brienna Perelli-Harris
• 2013: Fieldwork Director. Fieldwork of European Social Survey, round 6, Italy (130,000 Euros). Survey agency: VALMONs.r.l. – Academic Spin-Off of the University of Florence. Funding: 2012 MiUR-PRIN grant. Coordinator: Prof. Leonardo Morlino

PROJECTS PARTICIPATION (SELECTION)

• 2017–current: CREW – Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes. Funding: Joint Programming Initiative, More Years Better Lives 2017-2020
• 2014–2017: Senior collaborator of the ERC project SWELL-FER – Subjective Well-Being and Fertility
• 2009–2017: International collaborator of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SpaDE)
• 2013–2016: FamiliesAndSocieties. Funding: FP7-SSH-2012 Programme, European Commission
• 2011–2014: FamChIP – Family Change in Italy and Poland. Funding: National Science Centre in Poland
• 2009: Monitoring Quality of Life in Europe. Family Life and Work. Funding: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• 2008–2010: Life Course Dynamics between context and strong ties. Funding: 2007 MiURPRIN grant
• 2008–2010: The cost of children. Estimates, connections with the low Italian fertility, policy implications, and determination of a fair child support payment when parents divorce. Funding: 2007 MiUR-PRIN grant
• 2007–2008: MAGGIE – Major Ageing and Gender Issues in Europe. Funding: FP6-2004- CITIZENS-5, European Commission

CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION (SELECTION)

• Convener (Topic: Fertility) for the “2018 European Population Conference”, Brussels, June 6-9 2018
• Scientific Committee and Organising Committee of the “2017 Italian Population Days”, Florence, February 8-10 2017
• Scientific Committee of the “2016 Italian Statistical Society Meeting”, Salerno, June 8-10 2016
• Scientific Committee of the conference “Comparing Families: Does the International Perspective Help?”, Warsaw, December 16-17 2013
• Scientific Committee of the “2011 Italian Population Days”, Ancona, February 2-4 2011

 INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS (SELECTION) 

• Ferility and Narratives of the Future. An Application to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Keynote speech at the Max Weber Programme Multidisciplinary Research Workshop “Causes and Consequences of Inequality”, European University Institute, May 13 202
• Detecting Family Complexity from Official Statistics. Webinar of EMOS (European Master of Official Statistics), April 13 2020 
• Fertility Under Uncertainty. SUDA online Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, May 28 2020
• Demographic Change and Official Statistics. Webinar of EMOS (European Master of Official Statistics), April 15 2020
• Fertility under Conditions of Uncertainty in Europe. CED - Centre for Demographic Studies, Barcelona, Spain, November 28 2019
• Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe. Keynote speech at the Gender and Generation User Conference, Paris, France, October 24 2019
• Ferility under Fundamental Uncertainty. Centre for population change, Southampton, UK, May 16 2019
• Ferility under Fundamental Uncertainty. Invited presentation at the 2019 Population Association of America Annual Meeting in the session "Understanding the Determinants of Low Fertility", April 12 2019 2018
• Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Macro and Micro Evidence. University of Turin, May 31 2018
• First Birth Losses and Gains under Economic Uncertainty: The Case of Italy. Conference “Low Fertility, Labor Market, and Family: Factors, Outcomes, and Policy Implications”, Organized by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the East-West Center, Honolulu, October 17-20 2017
• The transition to parenthood among Britain’s “Generation Rent”: examining the changing role of housing tenure. Conference “Partner Relationships, Residential Relocations and Housing in the Life Course”, Cologne, July 27-29 2017
• Uncertain lives. Insights into the role of job precariousness on family formation practices in Italy. Centre for Population Change, Edinburgh, January 29 2015
• The Educational Gradient in Marital Disruption: A Meta-Analysis of European Longitudinal Research. SUDA Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, Stockholm, January 19 2012
• Micro-Macro Approaches in Family Demography. Conference “Applied Demography – New Methods and Research Needs”, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, November 27-28 2012
• Changing Patterns of Dissolution in Europe: A Meta-Analysis of Thirty Years of Research. Dondena Seminars, Bocconi University, Milan, June 6 2011
• Accumulation of work experience and the transition to motherhood in Italy and Poland. SUDA Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, January 21 2010
• Methods for Reconciling the Micro and the Macro in Family Demography Research: A Systematization. Conference “Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-Sets”, Italian Statistical Society, Pescara, September 23-25 2009
• Living as a Woman in Old Age in Europe. Extraordinary Meeting of Women’s Committee, European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, September 15 2009
• Accumulation of work experience and the transition to motherhood in Italy and Poland. Conference “Transnationalization, Globalization and its Effects on Women’s Employment and Family Transitions”, Tallinn, September 4-5 2009 (with Anna Matysiak)

My major research interests address:

• Family-related behaviours (fertility; union formation and dissolution) and their relation with individuals’ socio-economic status
• Comparative family demography
• Family life courses: theoretical and methodological issues
• Family events and subjective well-being

For more information see: www.danielevignoli.com 

Daniele Vignoli is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence, where he teaches ‘Demography’, ‘Family Demography’, ‘Quantitative Methods for Population Studies’, and ‘Longitudinal Data Analysis’. He is the scientific coordinator of the University of Florence Population and Society Unit. Currently, he leads an ERC Consolidator Grant on ‘Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe’, a Miur-FARE Grant on ‘Uncertainty and Fertility: Narratives’, and a Miur-Prin Grant on ‘The Great Demographic Recession’. He is Editor-in-Chief of GENUS – Journal of Population Sciences and co-director of FloPS (Florence Population Studies), a collaboration between the European University Institute and the University of Florence. His research addresses: Family demography; Social demography; Life course. In 2020, he received the Dirk J. van de Kaa Award for Social Demography from the European Association for Population Studies for “outstanding achievements by an individual scholar in social demography, and the interplay of population dynamics and social change”. Personal website: www.danielevignoli.com

(For more information see: www.danielevignoli.com)

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS

• Dec. 2017–current: Full Professor of Demography, University of Florence
• Scientific Coordinator of the University of Florence Population and Society Unit (UPS)
• Vice-President of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP)
• 2017–current: Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant “Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe, EU-FER” (~1.7 million Euros)
• 2020–current: Principal Investigator of the Miur-FARE Grant “Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe: Narratives” (~270,000 Euros)
• 2019–current: Principal Investigator of the Miur-Prin Grant “The Great Demographic Recession, GDR” (~580,000 Euros)
• 2019–current: Co-Director of Florence Population Studies (FloPS)
• 2018–current: Editor-in-Chief of GENUS, Journal of Population Sciences

AWARDS

•  2020: Dirk J. van de Kaa Award for Social Demography from the European Association for Population Studies for “outstanding achievements by an individual scholar in social demography, and the interplay of population dynamics and social change”. The jury considered “his work innovative both theoretical and methodological”.
• 2022: Demographic Research Editor’s Choice Award for the paper: Giammarco Alderotti, Cecilia Tomassini, and Daniele Vignoli (2022). ‘Silver splits’ in Europe: The role of grandchildren and other correlates. Demographic Research, 46: 619–652.
• 2021: Demographic Research Editor’s Choice Award for the paper: Danilo Bolano and Daniele Vignoli (2021). Union Formation Under Conditions of Uncertainty: The Objective and Subjective Sides of Employment Uncertainty. Demographic Research, 45: 141-186.
• 2016: Demographic Research Editor’s Choice Award for the paper: Daniele Vignoli, Valentina Tocchioni, and Silvana Salvini (2016). Uncertain lives: Insights into the role of job precariousness in union formation in Italy. Demographic Research, 35: 253-282

MANAGEMENT (SELECTION)

• 2018-current: Coordinator of the University of Florence Observatory on Research
• 2020-current: Member of "Commissione di Indirizzo e Autovalutazione" of DiSIA
• 2017-current: Member of the University of Florence ERC Task Force
• 2018-2021: Member of the University of Florence Observatory on Research
• 2017–2020: Director of the Master Program in Development of Sustainable Tourism Systems, University of Florence
• 2015–2016: Vice-Director of the Master Program in Statistics, Actuarial and Financial Sciences, University of Florence

EDUCATION

• 2005–2008: PhD in Demography, Department of Demographic Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
• 2005–2006: European Research Master of Demography. Degree of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2005/2006 at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

• 2015–2017: Associate Professor of Demography, University of Florence
• 2009–2015: Assistant Professor of Demography (Permanent Position), University of Florence
• 2008–2009: Post-Doc Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
• 2007–2009: Research Fellow, Department of Statistics “G. Parenti”, University of Florence
• 2006–2007: Winter Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

REFEREE ACTIVITY

• Projects evaluator: Academy of Finland; European Commission (ERC, NORFACE); French National Research Agency; Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR); the Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO); Croatia Science Foundation (Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost, HRZZ); National Science Centre Poland (Naradowe Centrum Nauki)
• Referee for journals: Advances in Quality of Life Research; Advances in Life Course Research; Annals of Applied Statistics; Comparative Population Studies; Demography; Demographic Research; European Journal of Population; European Sociological Review; Feminist Economics; Genus; International Migration Review; Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization; Journal of Family Issues; Journal of Marriage and Family; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A; Journal of Population Research; Population; Population, Space and Place; Population Research and Policy Review; Population Studies; Regional Studies; Social Indicators Research; Studies in Family Planning, Time and Society, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research

BOARDS OF PhDs, SUPERVISION OF PhD STUDENTS AND POST-DOCS

• 2018–current: Board of PhD program in “Mutamento Sociale e Politico”, University of Florence
• 2013–2017: Board of PhD program in “Matematica, Informatica, Statistica”, University of Florence
• Supervision of PhD students: Maria Francesca Morabito; Elena Bastianelli; Giulia Torelli; Giammarco Alderotti; Michele Mozzachiodi; Ilaria Vannini; Cristina Ocello
• Supervision of Post-docs: Patrizio Lodetti (2020-current); Giammarco Alderotti (2019-current); Giacomo Bazzani (2018-current); Daniela Bellani (2019-2020); Massimo Nocentini (2019); Niccolò Innocenti (2017-current); Alessandra Minello (2018); Valentina Tocchioni (2016-2018); Elena Ruviglioni (2015)

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES (PAST ROLES AND MEMBERSHIPS)

• 2016–2020: Elected Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS)
• 2013–2015: Elected member of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies (AIQUAV). Role: Secretary
• 2009–2011: Elected member of the steering committee of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP). Role: Secretary
• Memberships: AISP (Italian Association for Population Studies); EAPS (European Association for Population Studies); IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population); PAA (Population Association of America); SIS (Statistical Italian Society)

PAST PROJECTS COORDINATION

• 2016–2017: Principal Investigator of the Italian grant “Famiglie e Benessere: Dinamiche e Relazioni” (30,000 Euros), University of Florence Strategic Projects 2016
• 2012–2015: Coordinator of Italian Research Unit. Project “Childbearing within Cohabitation” (10,000 Euros). Funding: ERC Starting Grant. Principal Investigator: Prof. Brienna Perelli-Harris
• 2013: Fieldwork Director. Fieldwork of European Social Survey, round 6, Italy (130,000 Euros). Survey agency: VALMONs.r.l. – Academic Spin-Off of the University of Florence. Funding: 2012 MiUR-PRIN grant. Coordinator: Prof. Leonardo Morlino

PROJECTS PARTICIPATION (SELECTION)

• 2017–current: CREW – Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes. Funding: Joint Programming Initiative, More Years Better Lives 2017-2020
• 2014–2017: Senior collaborator of the ERC project SWELL-FER – Subjective Well-Being and Fertility
• 2009–2017: International collaborator of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SpaDE)
• 2013–2016: FamiliesAndSocieties. Funding: FP7-SSH-2012 Programme, European Commission
• 2011–2014: FamChIP – Family Change in Italy and Poland. Funding: National Science Centre in Poland
• 2009: Monitoring Quality of Life in Europe. Family Life and Work. Funding: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• 2008–2010: Life Course Dynamics between context and strong ties. Funding: 2007 MiURPRIN grant
• 2008–2010: The cost of children. Estimates, connections with the low Italian fertility, policy implications, and determination of a fair child support payment when parents divorce. Funding: 2007 MiUR-PRIN grant
• 2007–2008: MAGGIE – Major Ageing and Gender Issues in Europe. Funding: FP6-2004- CITIZENS-5, European Commission

CONFERENCES ORGANIZATION (SELECTION)

• Convener (Topic: Fertility) for the “2018 European Population Conference”, Brussels, June 6-9 2018
• Scientific Committee and Organising Committee of the “2017 Italian Population Days”, Florence, February 8-10 2017
• Scientific Committee of the “2016 Italian Statistical Society Meeting”, Salerno, June 8-10 2016
• Scientific Committee of the conference “Comparing Families: Does the International Perspective Help?”, Warsaw, December 16-17 2013
• Scientific Committee of the “2011 Italian Population Days”, Ancona, February 2-4 2011

 INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS (SELECTION) 

• Ferility and Narratives of the Future. An Application to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Keynote speech at the Max Weber Programme Multidisciplinary Research Workshop “Causes and Consequences of Inequality”, European University Institute, May 13 202
• Detecting Family Complexity from Official Statistics. Webinar of EMOS (European Master of Official Statistics), April 13 2020 
• Fertility Under Uncertainty. SUDA online Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, May 28 2020
• Demographic Change and Official Statistics. Webinar of EMOS (European Master of Official Statistics), April 15 2020
• Fertility under Conditions of Uncertainty in Europe. CED - Centre for Demographic Studies, Barcelona, Spain, November 28 2019
• Economic Uncertainty and Fertility in Europe. Keynote speech at the Gender and Generation User Conference, Paris, France, October 24 2019
• Ferility under Fundamental Uncertainty. Centre for population change, Southampton, UK, May 16 2019
• Ferility under Fundamental Uncertainty. Invited presentation at the 2019 Population Association of America Annual Meeting in the session "Understanding the Determinants of Low Fertility", April 12 2019 2018
• Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Macro and Micro Evidence. University of Turin, May 31 2018
• First Birth Losses and Gains under Economic Uncertainty: The Case of Italy. Conference “Low Fertility, Labor Market, and Family: Factors, Outcomes, and Policy Implications”, Organized by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the East-West Center, Honolulu, October 17-20 2017
• The transition to parenthood among Britain’s “Generation Rent”: examining the changing role of housing tenure. Conference “Partner Relationships, Residential Relocations and Housing in the Life Course”, Cologne, July 27-29 2017
• Uncertain lives. Insights into the role of job precariousness on family formation practices in Italy. Centre for Population Change, Edinburgh, January 29 2015
• The Educational Gradient in Marital Disruption: A Meta-Analysis of European Longitudinal Research. SUDA Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, Stockholm, January 19 2012
• Micro-Macro Approaches in Family Demography. Conference “Applied Demography – New Methods and Research Needs”, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, November 27-28 2012
• Changing Patterns of Dissolution in Europe: A Meta-Analysis of Thirty Years of Research. Dondena Seminars, Bocconi University, Milan, June 6 2011
• Accumulation of work experience and the transition to motherhood in Italy and Poland. SUDA Demographic Colloquium, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, January 21 2010
• Methods for Reconciling the Micro and the Macro in Family Demography Research: A Systematization. Conference “Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-Sets”, Italian Statistical Society, Pescara, September 23-25 2009
• Living as a Woman in Old Age in Europe. Extraordinary Meeting of Women’s Committee, European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, September 15 2009
• Accumulation of work experience and the transition to motherhood in Italy and Poland. Conference “Transnationalization, Globalization and its Effects on Women’s Employment and Family Transitions”, Tallinn, September 4-5 2009 (with Anna Matysiak)

My major research interests address:

• Family-related behaviours (fertility; union formation and dissolution) and their relation with individuals’ socio-economic status
• Comparative family demography
• Family life courses: theoretical and methodological issues
• Family events and subjective well-being

For more information see: www.danielevignoli.com