12 NOVEMBER | 2:00 – 6:00 pm
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Welcome Addresses
Francesco Billari Rector, Bocconi University
Guido Alfani Director, DONDENA Centre, Bocconi University
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Round Table: Twenty Years of DONDENA
Chair Paloma Lopez-Garcia IEP, Bocconi University
Guido Alfani Director, DONDENA Centre, Bocconi University
Francesco Billari Rector, Bocconi University
Marco Bonetti Bocconi University
Vincenzo Galasso Bocconi University
Ross MacMillan University of Limerick
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Session 1: Politics & Inequality
Chair Alexandros Kentikelenis Bocconi University
Post-Neoliberal Publics? Evidence from Cross-National Survey Data
Adam Goldstein Princeton University
Beyond Weberian Growth: Protestantism, Welfare, and Inequality in the Long Run
Felix Schaff Bocconi University
The Politics of the Emerging AI backlash: Inequality, Perceptions of Power, and Voter Preferences over AI
Jane Gingrich University of Oxford
What You Earn - or What It Creates? How Occupation Shapes Tax Preferences
Mariadolores Schiavone Bocconi University
5:30 pm
Alberto Dondena and the Founding of the Dondena Centre: A Remembrance
Giorgio Arlati and Gianpiero Molinari Representatives of the Dondena Family
13 NOVEMBER | 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
8.30 – 10:00 am
Session 2: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Change and Gender Inequality
Chair Paola Profeta Bocconi University
The Impact of Formative Assessment on Behavior-Based Socioemotional Skills on Students’ Outcomes
Caterina Calsamiglia Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Automating Inequality? Gender Bias in AI-mediated Labor Markets
Germain Gauthier Bocconi University joint with K. Elass, D. Nozza and P. Profeta
Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap
Feng Jing National University Singapore with P. Cortés, N. Guida-Johnson, J. Pan
10:00 – 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 pm
Session 3: The Global Fertility Decline
Chair Nicoletta Balbo Bocconi University
Preferences or Preconditions? Making Sense of Low Fertility across Countries
Letizia Mencarini Bocconi University
Low Fertility Goes Global: Trends, Drivers, and Uncertain Futures
Tomas Sobotka Vienna Institute of Demography
The rise of ART: What if Means for Fertility – and for Whom
Alice Goisis University College London
Too Early to Abandon Hope? Fertility Decline in the Nordic Countries
Peter Fallesen Rockwool Foundation
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Session 4: Archaeology and Social Science
Chair Guido Alfani Bocconi University
The Past as Social Science: Archaeological Perspectives on Governance, Urbanisation, and Inequality
Dan Lawrence Durham University
Archaeological Data, Social Science, and Economic Inequality in the Ancient Past
Mattia Fochesato Bocconi University
Collective Governance in Global History
Federica Carugati King’s College London
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Session 5: The Great Transfer of Wealth, Income and Power
Chair Pablo Beramendi Duke University
The great global reallocation of personal income positions and power
Branko Milanovic Stone Center, CUNY
The demography of the Great Wealth Transfer
Arnstein Aassve Bocconi University
Adapting in a fair way: what Europe’s demographic transformation demands of policy – and of science
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak Warsaw School of Economics
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Session 6: Pandemic Threats and Society
Chair Simone Ghislandi Bocconi University
Modeling as Public Health Service: From Outbreak Forecasting to the Design of Surveillance Systems
Alessandro Vespignani Northeastern University
Beyond the Curve: How Demography, Social Structure, and Human Behavior Shape Epidemics
Alessia Melegaro Bocconi University
Assembling the Puzzle: Multimodal Data for More Representative and Equitable Epidemic Modelling
Lorenzo Lucchini Fondazione Bruno Kessler
6:00 pm
Final Aperitivo
