Research

How to Return to Work Balancing Public Health and Economic Needs

Carlo Favero adapted a standard epidemiological model to the Italian COVID outbreak and extended it in order to consider the economic effect of the pandemic, along with Andrea Ichino and Aldo Rustichini

Quantum Physics and Statistical Physics for Machine Learning Meet at Bocconi

In the early days of next week the University will virtually host 300 participants of the ELLIS Workshop on Quantum and Physics Based Machine Learning

How to Summarize Graphs and Hypergraphs

Large graphs and hypergraphs are increasingly common: Luca Trevisan has recently published an article about how to summarize these data structures in order to save memory and computational time while preserving their characteristic features

Women and the Children of the Less Educated Are Bearing the Brunt of the COVID Crisis

Research by Paola Profeta finds that the lockdown and the social distancing measures translated into an additional burden for women in terms of housework. Only the most educated families devote time to their children's homework in times of homeschooling

Populist Governments Lagged Behind in the Fight on COVID

In a study on 94 countries, Kerim Kavakli shows that populist distrust in expert advice may have caused delays in the implementation of health measures, closures and mobility restrictions. The effect is stronger in rich countries.

Two Generations of Bayesian Statisticians Meet at BayesLab Webinars

The Bocconi research unit on Bayesian statistics will host an online seminar series in which outstanding young researchers will have the opportunity to present their work and get feedback from toplevel senior scholars