A Ferrara
Biographic Data
| ID | 6675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Ferrara |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrara |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9927-3863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Heterogeneity in Divorce Penalties
A large literature documents a negative effect of family dissolution on children’s educational attainment, yet little is known about how this “divorce penalty” varies by migration background. Theory suggests that children of immigrants have “less to lose” from parental separation due to their lower initial socioeconomic resources, although evidence is limited to a few country cases. Moreover, research has largely overlooked the children of mixed …
Parental Health Shocks and Child Outcomes at Ages 17–25
Objective To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training). Background Theoretical considerations and previous cross‐sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes and may play an important role in the intergener…
Between beliefs and borders
Abortion remains a uniquely contentious issue, rooted not only in moral concerns but also in its broader implications for women’s reproductive autonomy and population dynamics. These tensions become particularly pronounced in migration contexts, where they intersect with debates on integration, cultural identity, and perceived demographic threats to the majority population. We investigate how abortion attitudes among immigrants and their descenda…
A Refugee Health Paradox? Self-Reported Health Trajectories of Refugees and Immigrants in Germany
Immigrants typically have better health than natives upon arrival owing to health selection, but this advantage declines over time. This "Immigrant Health Paradox" (IHP) is generalized to all immigrant groups, without recognizing key differences between them. Research on the health of asylum seekers and refugees (AS&Rs) is mostly cross-sectional, often lacks other immigrants or natives as control groups, and mainly focuses on psychopathological d…
From the Streets to the Voting Booth
Is anti-far-right grassroots mobilization effective? Scholars studying the far right have focused extensively on the causes and consequences of far-right success but have paid little attention to what citizens and civil society can do to tackle this phenomenon. Focusing on the surge of Sardine (the Sardines), an anti-far-right social movement, during the 2020 Italian regional elections, we test whether grassroots mobilization is an effective tool…
A longitudinal perspective to migrant health
Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal studies are often limited in their st…
Explaining the attainment of the second-generation
How can we understand unexplained variation in the educational outcomes of the children of immigrants? A growing literature posits that standard educational transmission models fail to explain national origin differences in attainment because they ignore immigrant selectivity - the degree to which immigrants differ from non-migrants in their sending countries. The immigrant selectivity hypothesis is usually tested using indicators of parents' rel…
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant-native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France
The children of immigrants usually make more ambitious enrolment choices than native students with comparable socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Less is known about how ethnic choice effects vary by socioeconomic status and previous achievement simultaneously, and whether they only hold true for some immigrant-native comparisons. Moreover, few studies investigate outcomes after the educational transition, so the consequences of ambiti…
From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments
Socio-emotional and motivational skills are routinely measured using self-reports in large-scale educational assessments. Measures exploiting test-takers' behaviour during the completion of questionnaires or cognitive tests are increasingly used as alternatives to self-reports in the economics of education literature. We compute behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills using data from the Programme for International Student…
Performance decline in a low‐stakes test at age 15 and educational attainment at age 25
INTRODUCTION: Educational attainment is associated with important life outcomes including labour market performance, health status, well-being, civic and political participation. An important question is whether it is possible to identify early those students who lack the achievement motivation that is needed to complete a higher education degree. METHODS: Longitudinal follow-ups of representative samples of participants in the 2000 and 2003 Prog…
From the Streets to the Voting Booth
Is anti-far-right grassroots mobilization effective? Scholars studying the far right have focused extensively on the causes and consequences of far-right success but have paid little attention to what citizens and civil society can do to tackle this phenomenon. Focusing on the surge of Sardine (the Sardines), an anti-far-right social movement, during the 2020 Italian regional elections, we test whether grassroots mobilization is an effective tool…
A longitudinal perspective to migrant health
Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal studies are often limited in their st…
Explaining the attainment of the second-generation
How can we understand unexplained variation in the educational outcomes of the children of immigrants? A growing literature posits that standard educational transmission models fail to explain national origin differences in attainment because they ignore immigrant selectivity - the degree to which immigrants differ from non-migrants in their sending countries. The immigrant selectivity hypothesis is usually tested using indicators of parents' rel…
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant-native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France
The children of immigrants usually make more ambitious enrolment choices than native students with comparable socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Less is known about how ethnic choice effects vary by socioeconomic status and previous achievement simultaneously, and whether they only hold true for some immigrant-native comparisons. Moreover, few studies investigate outcomes after the educational transition, so the consequences of ambiti…
From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments
Socio-emotional and motivational skills are routinely measured using self-reports in large-scale educational assessments. Measures exploiting test-takers' behaviour during the completion of questionnaires or cognitive tests are increasingly used as alternatives to self-reports in the economics of education literature. We compute behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills using data from the Programme for International Student…
Performance decline in a low‐stakes test at age 15 and educational attainment at age 25
INTRODUCTION: Educational attainment is associated with important life outcomes including labour market performance, health status, well-being, civic and political participation. An important question is whether it is possible to identify early those students who lack the achievement motivation that is needed to complete a higher education degree. METHODS: Longitudinal follow-ups of representative samples of participants in the 2000 and 2003 Prog…
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant-native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France
The children of immigrants usually make more ambitious enrolment choices than native students with comparable socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Less is known about how ethnic choice effects vary by socioeconomic status and previous achievement simultaneously, and whether they only hold true for some immigrant-native comparisons. Moreover, few studies investigate outcomes after the educational transition, so the consequences of ambiti…
From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments
Socio-emotional and motivational skills are routinely measured using self-reports in large-scale educational assessments. Measures exploiting test-takers' behaviour during the completion of questionnaires or cognitive tests are increasingly used as alternatives to self-reports in the economics of education literature. We compute behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills using data from the Programme for International Student…
From the Streets to the Voting Booth
Is anti-far-right grassroots mobilization effective? Scholars studying the far right have focused extensively on the causes and consequences of far-right success but have paid little attention to what citizens and civil society can do to tackle this phenomenon. Focusing on the surge of Sardine (the Sardines), an anti-far-right social movement, during the 2020 Italian regional elections, we test whether grassroots mobilization is an effective tool…
A longitudinal perspective to migrant health
Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal studies are often limited in their st…
Explaining the attainment of the second-generation
How can we understand unexplained variation in the educational outcomes of the children of immigrants? A growing literature posits that standard educational transmission models fail to explain national origin differences in attainment because they ignore immigrant selectivity - the degree to which immigrants differ from non-migrants in their sending countries. The immigrant selectivity hypothesis is usually tested using indicators of parents' rel…
A Refugee Health Paradox? Self-Reported Health Trajectories of Refugees and Immigrants in Germany
Immigrants typically have better health than natives upon arrival owing to health selection, but this advantage declines over time. This "Immigrant Health Paradox" (IHP) is generalized to all immigrant groups, without recognizing key differences between them. Research on the health of asylum seekers and refugees (AS&Rs) is mostly cross-sectional, often lacks other immigrants or natives as control groups, and mainly focuses on psychopathological d…
Heterogeneity in Divorce Penalties
A large literature documents a negative effect of family dissolution on children’s educational attainment, yet little is known about how this “divorce penalty” varies by migration background. Theory suggests that children of immigrants have “less to lose” from parental separation due to their lower initial socioeconomic resources, although evidence is limited to a few country cases. Moreover, research has largely overlooked the children of mixed …
Parental Health Shocks and Child Outcomes at Ages 17–25
Objective To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training). Background Theoretical considerations and previous cross‐sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes and may play an important role in the intergener…
Between beliefs and borders
Abortion remains a uniquely contentious issue, rooted not only in moral concerns but also in its broader implications for women’s reproductive autonomy and population dynamics. These tensions become particularly pronounced in migration contexts, where they intersect with debates on integration, cultural identity, and perceived demographic threats to the majority population. We investigate how abortion attitudes among immigrants and their descenda…
Psychology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Educational attainment (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works)