Simona Bignami
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 275438 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simona Bignami |
| NOMBRES | Simona |
| APELLIDO | Bignami |
| FIRMA | BIGNAMI S |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8246-3046 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century
Rural-Urban Migration and Fertility Ideation in Senegal
In low- and middle-income countries, significant differences in fertility beliefs between rural and urban areas arise from the differential timing and pace of fertility declines. Demographers have long hypothesized about the diffusion of these beliefs and behaviors from urban to rural areas, potentially via temporary rural-urban labor migration. In this paper, we investigate the association between temporary internal migration from rural Senegal …
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa
Social isolation/marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa is under-researched, despite increasing evidence of weakening traditional community-based social support. This paper aims to develop a typology of social networks capable of accounting for social marginalization in a rural community in Western Senegal and to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of network profiles. Building on prior qualitative work, we carry out a latent profile an…
Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy
This article investigates whether and to what extent poor proficiency in Italian impairs immigrants’ labor market integration in Italy. Using individual-level survey data, we apply instrumental variables methods to leverage presumably exogenous variations in Italian proficiency induced by immigrants’ demo-linguistic characteristics (e.g., age at arrival, linguistic distance between mother tongue and destination language, speaking Italian during c…
Does speaking or writing Italian make differences
Although researchers acknowledge the key role of language in immigrant integration, empirical analyses on how proficiency in Italian differently shape the social outcomes of immigrants living in Italy are limited. Using the Italian Survey on Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens, we model individual demographic and linguistic patterns, setting apart communication ability from other linguistic skills. Clustering immigrants by mother…
Demographic risk factors, healthcare utilization, and mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria, Germany, and Italy
At the population level, there is limited empirical evidence on the characteristics of individuals who were hospitalized because of Covid-19, the role of hospitalization in mortality risk, and how both evolved over time. Through the analysis of surveillance data for 7 million people in Austria, Germany, and Italy, we investigate: (1) the demographic characteristics and outcomes of individuals hospitalized because of Covid-19; and (2) the role of …
L'isolement social dans une société de solidarité. Le cas des Sereer Siin au Sénégal
Bien que l'Afrique subsaharienne soit le terrain de mutations sociales importantes, notamment quant au rôle de soutien que jouent les familles, le phénomène de l'isolement social y demeure peu abordé. Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier un cadre théorique pour étudier l'isolement social dans les sociétés de solidarité d'Afrique subsaharienne et de décrire comment cet isolement se manifeste chez les Sereer Siin au Sénégal. L'analyse s'appuie …
A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure From Census and Survey Data
How household-level data from censuses and surveys are analyzed to study household structure is an issue that has received little attention. The present study proposes a new methodological approach to address this gap. Specifically, we introduce the idea of the household configuration as a mathematical representation of observations from the household roster that uses the tools of sequence analysis to study relationships between household members…
Demographics of Covid-19 hospitalisations and related fatality risk patterns
The assessment of hospitalisations and intensive care is crucial for planning health care resources needed over the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Nonetheless, comparative empirical assessments of COVID-19 hospitalisations and related fatality risk patterns on a large scale are lacking. This paper exploits anonymised, individual-level data on SARS-CoV-2 confirmed infections collected and harmonized by the European Cen…
Comparing Covid-19 fatality across countries
Who Matters Most? Migrant Networks, Tie Strength, and First Rural–Urban Migration to Dakar
Social networks' influence on migration has long been explored largely through the lenses of cumulative causation and social capital theory. This article aims to reconceptualize elements of these theories for the case of rural–urban migration and test their utility in explaining first-migration timing. We use a uniquely extensive social network survey linked to prospectively collected migration data in rural Senegal. We decompose migrant networks…
The psychosocial dimension of housing in Nunavik
Overcrowding is associated with lower levels of perceived social support, which is a key component of health for the general population and for Nunavimmiut. Future research should examine the factors creating stronger associations between overcrowding and lower social support for men and older adults
Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis
Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine
HIV/Aids and time allocation in rural Malawi
AIDS-related morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large economic impact in rural Malawi, because they reduce the time that adults can spend on production for subsistence and on income-generating activities. However, households may compensate for production losses by reallocating tasks among household members. The data demands for measuring these effects are high, limiting the amount of empirical evidence. In this paper, we utilize a uni…
Chantal Girard, Le bilan démographique du Québec. Édition 2008, Québec, Institut de la statistique du Québec, 2008, 79 p
Chantal Girard, Le bilan démographique du Québec. Édition 2008, Québec, Institut de la statistique du Québec, 2008, 79 p.. An article from journal Recherches sociographiques (Volume 51, Number 1-2, 2010, pp. 13-325), on Érudit
HIV infection does not disproportionately affect the poorer in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Wealthier populations do better than poorer ones on most measures of health status, including nutrition, morbidity and mortality, and healthcare utilization. OBJECTIVES: This study examines the association between household wealth status and HIV serostatus to identify what characteristics and behaviours are associated with HIV infection, and the role of confounding factors such as place of residence and other risk factors. METHODS: Da…
Network stability in longitudinal data
Are we measuring what we want to measure
The social context of survey interviews is likely to be important in survey measurement in developing countries, where respondents expect to benefit from participation. In the recent literature on survey measurement, however, there are few attempts to
An Assessment of the KDICP and MDICP Data Quality
This paper evaluates the quality of the data collected as part of the Kenya and Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Projects, two longitudinal household surveys that examine the role of social networks in influencing attitudes and behavior regarding
An Assessment of the KDICP and MDICP Data Quality
This paper evaluates the quality of the data collected as part of the Kenya and Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Projects, two longitudinal household surveys that examine the role of social networks in influencing attitudes and behavior regarding
Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis
Are we measuring what we want to measure
The social context of survey interviews is likely to be important in survey measurement in developing countries, where respondents expect to benefit from participation. In the recent literature on survey measurement, however, there are few attempts to
Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy
This article investigates whether and to what extent poor proficiency in Italian impairs immigrants’ labor market integration in Italy. Using individual-level survey data, we apply instrumental variables methods to leverage presumably exogenous variations in Italian proficiency induced by immigrants’ demo-linguistic characteristics (e.g., age at arrival, linguistic distance between mother tongue and destination language, speaking Italian during c…
L'isolement social dans une société de solidarité. Le cas des Sereer Siin au Sénégal
Bien que l'Afrique subsaharienne soit le terrain de mutations sociales importantes, notamment quant au rôle de soutien que jouent les familles, le phénomène de l'isolement social y demeure peu abordé. Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier un cadre théorique pour étudier l'isolement social dans les sociétés de solidarité d'Afrique subsaharienne et de décrire comment cet isolement se manifeste chez les Sereer Siin au Sénégal. L'analyse s'appuie …
Rural-Urban Migration and Fertility Ideation in Senegal
In low- and middle-income countries, significant differences in fertility beliefs between rural and urban areas arise from the differential timing and pace of fertility declines. Demographers have long hypothesized about the diffusion of these beliefs and behaviors from urban to rural areas, potentially via temporary rural-urban labor migration. In this paper, we investigate the association between temporary internal migration from rural Senegal …
A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure From Census and Survey Data
How household-level data from censuses and surveys are analyzed to study household structure is an issue that has received little attention. The present study proposes a new methodological approach to address this gap. Specifically, we introduce the idea of the household configuration as a mathematical representation of observations from the household roster that uses the tools of sequence analysis to study relationships between household members…
Who Matters Most? Migrant Networks, Tie Strength, and First Rural–Urban Migration to Dakar
Social networks' influence on migration has long been explored largely through the lenses of cumulative causation and social capital theory. This article aims to reconceptualize elements of these theories for the case of rural–urban migration and test their utility in explaining first-migration timing. We use a uniquely extensive social network survey linked to prospectively collected migration data in rural Senegal. We decompose migrant networks…
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa
Social isolation/marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa is under-researched, despite increasing evidence of weakening traditional community-based social support. This paper aims to develop a typology of social networks capable of accounting for social marginalization in a rural community in Western Senegal and to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of network profiles. Building on prior qualitative work, we carry out a latent profile an…
Are we measuring what we want to measure
The social context of survey interviews is likely to be important in survey measurement in developing countries, where respondents expect to benefit from participation. In the recent literature on survey measurement, however, there are few attempts to
An Assessment of the KDICP and MDICP Data Quality
This paper evaluates the quality of the data collected as part of the Kenya and Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Projects, two longitudinal household surveys that examine the role of social networks in influencing attitudes and behavior regarding
Network stability in longitudinal data
HIV infection does not disproportionately affect the poorer in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Wealthier populations do better than poorer ones on most measures of health status, including nutrition, morbidity and mortality, and healthcare utilization. OBJECTIVES: This study examines the association between household wealth status and HIV serostatus to identify what characteristics and behaviours are associated with HIV infection, and the role of confounding factors such as place of residence and other risk factors. METHODS: Da…
Chantal Girard, Le bilan démographique du Québec. Édition 2008, Québec, Institut de la statistique du Québec, 2008, 79 p
Chantal Girard, Le bilan démographique du Québec. Édition 2008, Québec, Institut de la statistique du Québec, 2008, 79 p.. An article from journal Recherches sociographiques (Volume 51, Number 1-2, 2010, pp. 13-325), on Érudit
HIV/Aids and time allocation in rural Malawi
AIDS-related morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large economic impact in rural Malawi, because they reduce the time that adults can spend on production for subsistence and on income-generating activities. However, households may compensate for production losses by reallocating tasks among household members. The data demands for measuring these effects are high, limiting the amount of empirical evidence. In this paper, we utilize a uni…
Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine
Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis
Demographics of Covid-19 hospitalisations and related fatality risk patterns
The assessment of hospitalisations and intensive care is crucial for planning health care resources needed over the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Nonetheless, comparative empirical assessments of COVID-19 hospitalisations and related fatality risk patterns on a large scale are lacking. This paper exploits anonymised, individual-level data on SARS-CoV-2 confirmed infections collected and harmonized by the European Cen…
Comparing Covid-19 fatality across countries
Who Matters Most? Migrant Networks, Tie Strength, and First Rural–Urban Migration to Dakar
Social networks' influence on migration has long been explored largely through the lenses of cumulative causation and social capital theory. This article aims to reconceptualize elements of these theories for the case of rural–urban migration and test their utility in explaining first-migration timing. We use a uniquely extensive social network survey linked to prospectively collected migration data in rural Senegal. We decompose migrant networks…
The psychosocial dimension of housing in Nunavik
Overcrowding is associated with lower levels of perceived social support, which is a key component of health for the general population and for Nunavimmiut. Future research should examine the factors creating stronger associations between overcrowding and lower social support for men and older adults
Linguistic Barriers to Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration in Italy
This article investigates whether and to what extent poor proficiency in Italian impairs immigrants’ labor market integration in Italy. Using individual-level survey data, we apply instrumental variables methods to leverage presumably exogenous variations in Italian proficiency induced by immigrants’ demo-linguistic characteristics (e.g., age at arrival, linguistic distance between mother tongue and destination language, speaking Italian during c…
Does speaking or writing Italian make differences
Although researchers acknowledge the key role of language in immigrant integration, empirical analyses on how proficiency in Italian differently shape the social outcomes of immigrants living in Italy are limited. Using the Italian Survey on Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens, we model individual demographic and linguistic patterns, setting apart communication ability from other linguistic skills. Clustering immigrants by mother…
Demographic risk factors, healthcare utilization, and mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria, Germany, and Italy
At the population level, there is limited empirical evidence on the characteristics of individuals who were hospitalized because of Covid-19, the role of hospitalization in mortality risk, and how both evolved over time. Through the analysis of surveillance data for 7 million people in Austria, Germany, and Italy, we investigate: (1) the demographic characteristics and outcomes of individuals hospitalized because of Covid-19; and (2) the role of …
L'isolement social dans une société de solidarité. Le cas des Sereer Siin au Sénégal
Bien que l'Afrique subsaharienne soit le terrain de mutations sociales importantes, notamment quant au rôle de soutien que jouent les familles, le phénomène de l'isolement social y demeure peu abordé. Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier un cadre théorique pour étudier l'isolement social dans les sociétés de solidarité d'Afrique subsaharienne et de décrire comment cet isolement se manifeste chez les Sereer Siin au Sénégal. L'analyse s'appuie …
A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure From Census and Survey Data
How household-level data from censuses and surveys are analyzed to study household structure is an issue that has received little attention. The present study proposes a new methodological approach to address this gap. Specifically, we introduce the idea of the household configuration as a mathematical representation of observations from the household roster that uses the tools of sequence analysis to study relationships between household members…
Rural-Urban Migration and Fertility Ideation in Senegal
In low- and middle-income countries, significant differences in fertility beliefs between rural and urban areas arise from the differential timing and pace of fertility declines. Demographers have long hypothesized about the diffusion of these beliefs and behaviors from urban to rural areas, potentially via temporary rural-urban labor migration. In this paper, we investigate the association between temporary internal migration from rural Senegal …
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa
Social isolation/marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa is under-researched, despite increasing evidence of weakening traditional community-based social support. This paper aims to develop a typology of social networks capable of accounting for social marginalization in a rural community in Western Senegal and to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of network profiles. Building on prior qualitative work, we carry out a latent profile an…
Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century
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