Francesco Candeloro Billari
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Rector of the Bocconi University since November 2022, after his service as Dean of the Faculty. He worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Head of the Independent Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood).
His main interests are fertility and family change, the transition to adulthood, life course analysis, population forecasting, digitalization and demography, and comparative surveys. He has published in scientific journals in demography, economics, epidemiology and public health, geography, sociology, and statistics. He has worked in a number of international projects, and currently the PI of an European Research Council Advanced Grant.
He served as President and Secretary-General/Treasurer of the European Association for Population Studies, and received the 'Clogg Award' from the Population Association of America in 2012. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Affiliate of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Latest publications
Search for a New Home: Refugee Stock and Google Search
International Migration Review, 2024
Age-period-cohort analysis of U.S. fertility: a realistic approach
Quality & Quantity. International Journal of Methodology, 2024, vol.58, no. 4, pp.3021-3040
Domani è oggi: Il nostro futuro tra demografia e istruzione
Egea, Milano, Italy, 2023
Online financial and demographic education for workers: Experimental evidence from an Italian Pension Fund
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023, vol.151, pp.106849
The changing relationship between socio-economic background and family formation in four European countries
Population Studies, 2022, vol.76, no. 2, pp.235-251
Demography: Fast and Slow
Population and Development Review, 2022, vol.48, no. 1, pp.9-30
