Francesco Candeloro Billari
Government, Health and Not for Profit
Biography
Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Dean of the Faculty at Bocconi University, Milan, 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
Financial and demographic education effectiveness in academic and vocational high schools: a randomised experiment in Financial Education and Risk Literacy
R. Viale, U. Filotto, B. Alemanni, S. Mousavi (Eds),Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 5, pp.75-95, 2021
Causal Effects of the Timing of Life-course Events: Age at Retirement and Subsequent Health
Sociological Methods & Research, 2020, vol.49, no. 1, pp.216-249
Becoming obese in young adulthood: the role of career-family pathways in the transition to adulthood for men and women
BMC Public Health, 2019, vol.19, no. 1
Who meets online? Personality traits and sociodemographic characteristics associated with online partnering in Germany
Personality and Individual Differences, 2019, vol.143, pp.139-144
Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development
Population And Development Review, 2019, vol.45, no. 1, pp.133-168
Does broadband Internet affect fertility?
Population Studies, 2019, vol.73, no. 3, pp.297-316
