Riccardo Valente
Biographic Data
| ID | 106249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Riccardo Valente |
| GIVEN NAMES | Riccardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Valente |
| SIGNATURE | VALENTE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8620-0879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Context disadvantage and residential mobility from early life into adulthood: Impacts on socio-economic outcomes
Individuals’ socio-economic trajectories are shaped by both persistence and change in their residential environments, making it essential to examine how the socio-spatial dynamics of context disadvantage and residential mobility interact over the life course. While prior research has often studied these factors separately and within specific life stages, less is known about their compound effects and their interrelatedness across childhood and ad…
Priced out of your future? How housing hardship increases adolescents’ exposure to police-initiated contacts. Evidence from the United Kingdom
This study examines how childhood housing tenure instability affects police contacts among adolescents, an underexplored yet consequential dimension of youth interactions with law enforcement. Analyzing data from 10,608 participants in the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study (2001–2015), we construct a novel measure of cumulative housing hardship, capturing the compounded effects of frequent residential moves and tenure instability (e.g., grow…
Childhood Residential Mobility and the Life‐Course Accumulation of Wealth Inequalities: Evidence From the 1958 British Birth Cohort
Wealth inequality is a central dimension of social stratification, yet the early‐life processes underlying its emergence remain insufficiently understood. This article examines whether childhood residential mobility contributes to adult wealth accumulation, through which developmental pathways, and under what conditions. Drawing on longitudinal data from the 1958 National Child Development Study, I link residential histories from birth to age 16 …
Socio‐Spatial Mobility and Inequalities in Adolescent Agency: A Longitudinal Study From Peru
This study examines how socio‐spatial mobility across middle childhood and early adolescence is associated with perceived agency, using five waves of Young Lives Peru panel data (ages 8–15; N = 2,099). A multidimensional measure of socio‐spatial mobility is constructed to capture residential moves, rural‐urban transitions, and poverty trajectories. Their combined associations with agency at age 15 are estimated using linear, lagged, and time‐alig…
The long-term effects of childhood residential mobility on social capital
When a child moves home multiple times, the consequences for the adult they will later become can be substantial. This study investigates how frequent relocations during childhood influence the development of social capital in adulthood. Using a combination of retrospective and longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of the Swiss population (N = 4,451), we examine how identity formation and the sense of agency jointly shape indi…
Moving homes, changing perspectives: How residential and social mobility in childhood shape locus of control and adult mental health
Early-life relocations are often linked to developmental disruptions and poorer psychological outcomes. While their long-term implications are typically attributed to the frequency of residential moves, the role of social class changes accompanying those moves remains underexplored. To address this gap, we examine whether combined patterns of residential and social class mobility during childhood associate with adolescent locus of control at age …
Going out before the Covid-19 pandemic protected psychological health during the first lockdown: A model based on social capital theory
This paper shows that greater engagement in offline leisure activities before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – such as going to bars, restaurants and meeting friends – protected psychological health during the first lockdown in 2020. This result was obtained using structural equations on longitudinal data from a sample of 4,967 individuals (+14) collected in two waves between September 2019 and June 2020. Based on social capital theory, ou…
Urban routines, spatial occupancy, and their effects on outdoor crime in Barcelona
Based on mobile phone data from the city of Barcelona, Spain, generalized linear models are used to analyse the relationship between urban mobilities and the spatial and temporal patterning of robbery and theft. The hypothesis was made that mobility fluxes may undermine social control mechanisms by altering the socio-demographic composition of urban populations, therefore increasing the risk of crime victimization. The analysis brought together i…
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona
This paper incorporates an explicit mobility dimension into the definition of the neighbourhood and explores its possible implications for the study of spatially distributed phenomena. We analysed the distribution of robbery and theft in Barcelona, Spain, as a testing application. Crime data were aggregated to nonoverlapping units (census tracts) and to a new measure of overlapping neighbourhoods, that we named ‘walkhoods’, accounting for the dis…
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
The objective of this research was to explore how attitudes to science and scientists may be related to anti-vax positions and whether the psychological trait known as Need for Closure may influence the relationship between any or all of these attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 1128 young people aged 18–25 living in Italy during the COVID-19 health crisis. Based on the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyse…
Socio-spatial trajectories and health disparities among older adults in Chile
In this study, we examine residential trajectories since birth among older adults in the Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile, and their association with health outcomes. We linked retrospective residential information for a sample of 802 individuals aged 65-75 in 2019 to context-based information from decennial censuses. Our analysis reveals substantive heterogeneity in individuals' residential trajectories, thus mirroring social and urban changes …
La inseguridad como determinante de exclusión social el caso de Barcelona
La presente investigación introduce el concepto de inseguridad como recurso teórico para identificar los factores estructurales que afectan a la exclusión social en Barcelona. A raíz de un análisis de componentes principales, se calculó un índice compuesto denominado Ranking de Inseguridad Social (SIR), con el objetivo de estudiar la estructura y el volumen de los recursos disponibles en los 73 barrios de la segunda ciudad más grande de España. L…
The uneven earnings benefits for men and women of skills acquisition in a virtual university
Using multivariate linear regression models, this study estimates the relationship between graduates’ self-reported skill improvements from attending a virtual university, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and their salaries after obtaining the degree. Our results show that graduates made considerable earnings gains and especially high rates of return to investing in a Master’s degree. Reported earnings by male and female UOC students are 3…
Digital Documentation in Narrow Burial Spaces Using a 360° Borescope Prototype
This paper illustrates and discusses a novel method for the digital documentation of human remains in narrow spaces. A 360° borescope prototype made up of a panoramic camera and a lighting LED system was designed and assembled to acquire data in confined spaces for photogrammetric processing. A series of laboratory experiments were planned to assess the method’s validity. A modern concrete tunnel and a mock grave were surveyed using surveying ins…
Short-term rentals and long-term residence in Amsterdam and Barcelona: A comparative outlook
The aim of this study is to estimate the effects of tourism growth on residential stability in two cities: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Barcelona, Spain. Our focus is on short-term rentals advertised on Airbnb, which have been used to compute a measure of pressure on the available housing stock over a period of three years (2017–2019). The hypothesis was made that this measure would correlate with the average duration of residence in Amsterdam…
Tropical Trump, or a very Brazilian tale? Social class resentment as a moderating factor between anti-PT sentiment and the vote for Jair Bolsonaro in 2018
Prior analyses of authoritarian populism have linked it to hypotheses referring to cultural backlash and negative partisanship, suggesting that conservative values and hatred of opposing parties fuel the desire for strong leadership. This article adds to the previous literature by testing the influence of social class resentment on Bolsonaro coming to power in Brazil. Based on the AmericasBarometer 2018/19 survey, the analysis highlights the cent…
Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out
This article examines social disadvantage in tourist sites through the lens of labour geography by focusing on the residential trajectories of a sample of workers in Barcelona (N = 8,651) over a decade (2008–2019). Contrasting with the common view that tourism growth brings prosperity to local communities, it suggests instead that buoyant destinations may be prone to leaving their workforces behind. Path analysis modelling reveals that tourism se…
Feeling unsafe in Italy’s biggest cities
Crime and fear of crime are key challenges for civic coexistence in contemporary cities, specifically because of the unequal relationship between the two phenomena. In the case of Italy, for instance, even though crime has been trending downward over the past few decades, people are increasingly concerned about their safety. Based on survey data ( N = 6002) collected in Milan, Naples, Rome, and Turin, this research provides a cross-city compariso…
Archaeological site identification from open access multispectral imagery: Cloud computing applications in Northern Kurdistan (Iraq)
This paper presents the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the Navkur Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of the ‘Asingeran Archaeological Project’. The survey was prepared using remote sensing products accessed via Google Earth Engine c , a large‐scale cloud computing service freely available to the scientific community that allows processing remote sensing big data. Outputs generated with a multitemporal approach are particularly su…
Tourism pressure as a driver of social inequalities: A BSEM estimation of housing instability in European urban areas
There is a certain agreement in the regional economics literature on tourism development as a lever of territorial cohesion and regional convergence. Yet, evidence about its impact on social inclusion within destination regions is scant. The emerging literature placing tourism development as a driver of inequality relies mostly on qualitative methods and individual case studies, thus overlooking a cross-national perspective. In this article, we a…
Feeling unsafe as a source of psychological distress in early adolescence
Overall, gender differences in our model overlap with socio-environmental inequalities (low income, exposure to violence and conflictual public spaces), thus suggesting that an intervention into the root causes of these inequalities could contribute to lowering psychological distress in early adolescence
Did the screens win? An autoregressive model linking leisure, relatedness and mental health
Determinants of the Fear of Crime in Argentina and Brazil: A Cross-Country Comparison of Non-Criminal and Environmental Factors Affecting Feelings of Insecurity
Profiles of Online Students and the Impact of Their University Experience
In recent decades, there has been a steady growth in the population who enter higher education in both brick-and-mortar and, in particular, online universities. This has led to an increase in heterogeneous student profiles in a relatively short period of time. The purpose of this paper was to explore the student profiles at a university that gives all its courses online, namely the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and analyse students’ perc…
Methods for Ancient Wall Graffiti Documentation: Overview and Applications
Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out
This article examines social disadvantage in tourist sites through the lens of labour geography by focusing on the residential trajectories of a sample of workers in Barcelona (N = 8,651) over a decade (2008–2019). Contrasting with the common view that tourism growth brings prosperity to local communities, it suggests instead that buoyant destinations may be prone to leaving their workforces behind. Path analysis modelling reveals that tourism se…
Determinants of the Fear of Crime in Argentina and Brazil: A Cross-Country Comparison of Non-Criminal and Environmental Factors Affecting Feelings of Insecurity
Tourism pressure as a driver of social inequalities: A BSEM estimation of housing instability in European urban areas
There is a certain agreement in the regional economics literature on tourism development as a lever of territorial cohesion and regional convergence. Yet, evidence about its impact on social inclusion within destination regions is scant. The emerging literature placing tourism development as a driver of inequality relies mostly on qualitative methods and individual case studies, thus overlooking a cross-national perspective. In this article, we a…
Ontological insecurity and subjective feelings of unsafety: Analysing socially constructed fears in Italy
Short-term rentals and long-term residence in Amsterdam and Barcelona: A comparative outlook
The aim of this study is to estimate the effects of tourism growth on residential stability in two cities: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Barcelona, Spain. Our focus is on short-term rentals advertised on Airbnb, which have been used to compute a measure of pressure on the available housing stock over a period of three years (2017–2019). The hypothesis was made that this measure would correlate with the average duration of residence in Amsterdam…
A Structural Equation Model Estimation of the Role of Social Vulnerability as a Predictor of People's Feelings of Unsafety
Digital workflow to improve osteoarchaeological documentation
Assessing earthquake effects on archaeological sites using photogrammetry and 3D model analysis
This paper evaluates the application of photogrammetric recording to seismically-affected archaeological sites from the moment of on-site data acquisition through to the analysis of the resulting 3D model. This methodology facilitates (i) rapid but accurate recording of seismically-damaged archaeological contexts, (ii) three-dimensional reconstructions, (iii) the documentation of archeological features (e.g. plans, sections, elevations), and (iv)…
Going out before the Covid-19 pandemic protected psychological health during the first lockdown: A model based on social capital theory
This paper shows that greater engagement in offline leisure activities before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – such as going to bars, restaurants and meeting friends – protected psychological health during the first lockdown in 2020. This result was obtained using structural equations on longitudinal data from a sample of 4,967 individuals (+14) collected in two waves between September 2019 and June 2020. Based on social capital theory, ou…
Archaeological site identification from open access multispectral imagery: Cloud computing applications in Northern Kurdistan (Iraq)
This paper presents the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the Navkur Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of the ‘Asingeran Archaeological Project’. The survey was prepared using remote sensing products accessed via Google Earth Engine c , a large‐scale cloud computing service freely available to the scientific community that allows processing remote sensing big data. Outputs generated with a multitemporal approach are particularly su…
Methods for Ancient Wall Graffiti Documentation: Overview and Applications
Una contribución al estudio de la polarización sociopolítica en Brasil
Título del número: La erosión de la democracia : variantes, mecanismos y consecuencias. Sección: Otras voces
Safe and inclusive educational apps: Digital protection from an ethical and critical perspective
The mediated use of technology fosters learning from early childhood and is a potential resource for inclusive education. Nevertheless, the huge range of options and exposure to interactive digital content, which is often online, also implies a series of risks. The definition of protection underlying the current strategies to protect children is inadequate as it only extends to reducing children's exposure to harmful content. This study proposes …
Tropical Trump, or a very Brazilian tale? Social class resentment as a moderating factor between anti-PT sentiment and the vote for Jair Bolsonaro in 2018
Prior analyses of authoritarian populism have linked it to hypotheses referring to cultural backlash and negative partisanship, suggesting that conservative values and hatred of opposing parties fuel the desire for strong leadership. This article adds to the previous literature by testing the influence of social class resentment on Bolsonaro coming to power in Brazil. Based on the AmericasBarometer 2018/19 survey, the analysis highlights the cent…
Feeling unsafe as a source of psychological distress in early adolescence
Overall, gender differences in our model overlap with socio-environmental inequalities (low income, exposure to violence and conflictual public spaces), thus suggesting that an intervention into the root causes of these inequalities could contribute to lowering psychological distress in early adolescence
Cross-cultural nuances of the sources and consequences of subjective feelings of unsafety: A qualitative analysis in four cities
The research aims at analyzing the fear of crime and its consequences on social cohesion and informal social control. The study is based on data collected through a triangulation of qualitative techniques (in-depth interviews, participant observation, and semi-structured focus groups) throughout eight neighborhoods of four European cities. Challenging the initial expectations, the results obtained show that, under certain circumstances, the fear …
Assessing earthquake effects on archaeological sites using photogrammetry and 3D model analysis
This paper evaluates the application of photogrammetric recording to seismically-affected archaeological sites from the moment of on-site data acquisition through to the analysis of the resulting 3D model. This methodology facilitates (i) rapid but accurate recording of seismically-damaged archaeological contexts, (ii) three-dimensional reconstructions, (iii) the documentation of archeological features (e.g. plans, sections, elevations), and (iv)…
Ontological insecurity and subjective feelings of unsafety: Analysing socially constructed fears in Italy
Archaeological documentation and data sharing: Digital surveying and open data approach applied to archaeological fieldworks
The open data paradigm is changing the research approach in many fields such as remote sensing and the social sciences. This is supported by governmental decisions and policies that are boosting the open data wave, and in this context archaeology is also affected by this new trend. In many countries, archaeological data are still protected or only limited access is allowed. However, the strong political and economic support for the publication of…
Safe and inclusive educational apps: Digital protection from an ethical and critical perspective
The mediated use of technology fosters learning from early childhood and is a potential resource for inclusive education. Nevertheless, the huge range of options and exposure to interactive digital content, which is often online, also implies a series of risks. The definition of protection underlying the current strategies to protect children is inadequate as it only extends to reducing children's exposure to harmful content. This study proposes …
Cross-cultural nuances of the sources and consequences of subjective feelings of unsafety: A qualitative analysis in four cities
The research aims at analyzing the fear of crime and its consequences on social cohesion and informal social control. The study is based on data collected through a triangulation of qualitative techniques (in-depth interviews, participant observation, and semi-structured focus groups) throughout eight neighborhoods of four European cities. Challenging the initial expectations, the results obtained show that, under certain circumstances, the fear …
Digital workflow to improve osteoarchaeological documentation
A Structural Equation Model Estimation of the Role of Social Vulnerability as a Predictor of People's Feelings of Unsafety
Profiles of Online Students and the Impact of Their University Experience
In recent decades, there has been a steady growth in the population who enter higher education in both brick-and-mortar and, in particular, online universities. This has led to an increase in heterogeneous student profiles in a relatively short period of time. The purpose of this paper was to explore the student profiles at a university that gives all its courses online, namely the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and analyse students’ perc…
Methods for Ancient Wall Graffiti Documentation: Overview and Applications
Una contribución al estudio de la polarización sociopolítica en Brasil
Título del número: La erosión de la democracia : variantes, mecanismos y consecuencias. Sección: Otras voces
Did the screens win? An autoregressive model linking leisure, relatedness and mental health
Determinants of the Fear of Crime in Argentina and Brazil: A Cross-Country Comparison of Non-Criminal and Environmental Factors Affecting Feelings of Insecurity
Feeling unsafe in Italy’s biggest cities
Crime and fear of crime are key challenges for civic coexistence in contemporary cities, specifically because of the unequal relationship between the two phenomena. In the case of Italy, for instance, even though crime has been trending downward over the past few decades, people are increasingly concerned about their safety. Based on survey data ( N = 6002) collected in Milan, Naples, Rome, and Turin, this research provides a cross-city compariso…
Archaeological site identification from open access multispectral imagery: Cloud computing applications in Northern Kurdistan (Iraq)
This paper presents the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the Navkur Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of the ‘Asingeran Archaeological Project’. The survey was prepared using remote sensing products accessed via Google Earth Engine c , a large‐scale cloud computing service freely available to the scientific community that allows processing remote sensing big data. Outputs generated with a multitemporal approach are particularly su…
Tourism pressure as a driver of social inequalities: A BSEM estimation of housing instability in European urban areas
There is a certain agreement in the regional economics literature on tourism development as a lever of territorial cohesion and regional convergence. Yet, evidence about its impact on social inclusion within destination regions is scant. The emerging literature placing tourism development as a driver of inequality relies mostly on qualitative methods and individual case studies, thus overlooking a cross-national perspective. In this article, we a…
Feeling unsafe as a source of psychological distress in early adolescence
Overall, gender differences in our model overlap with socio-environmental inequalities (low income, exposure to violence and conflictual public spaces), thus suggesting that an intervention into the root causes of these inequalities could contribute to lowering psychological distress in early adolescence
The uneven earnings benefits for men and women of skills acquisition in a virtual university
Using multivariate linear regression models, this study estimates the relationship between graduates’ self-reported skill improvements from attending a virtual university, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and their salaries after obtaining the degree. Our results show that graduates made considerable earnings gains and especially high rates of return to investing in a Master’s degree. Reported earnings by male and female UOC students are 3…
Digital Documentation in Narrow Burial Spaces Using a 360° Borescope Prototype
This paper illustrates and discusses a novel method for the digital documentation of human remains in narrow spaces. A 360° borescope prototype made up of a panoramic camera and a lighting LED system was designed and assembled to acquire data in confined spaces for photogrammetric processing. A series of laboratory experiments were planned to assess the method’s validity. A modern concrete tunnel and a mock grave were surveyed using surveying ins…
Short-term rentals and long-term residence in Amsterdam and Barcelona: A comparative outlook
The aim of this study is to estimate the effects of tourism growth on residential stability in two cities: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Barcelona, Spain. Our focus is on short-term rentals advertised on Airbnb, which have been used to compute a measure of pressure on the available housing stock over a period of three years (2017–2019). The hypothesis was made that this measure would correlate with the average duration of residence in Amsterdam…
Tropical Trump, or a very Brazilian tale? Social class resentment as a moderating factor between anti-PT sentiment and the vote for Jair Bolsonaro in 2018
Prior analyses of authoritarian populism have linked it to hypotheses referring to cultural backlash and negative partisanship, suggesting that conservative values and hatred of opposing parties fuel the desire for strong leadership. This article adds to the previous literature by testing the influence of social class resentment on Bolsonaro coming to power in Brazil. Based on the AmericasBarometer 2018/19 survey, the analysis highlights the cent…
Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out
This article examines social disadvantage in tourist sites through the lens of labour geography by focusing on the residential trajectories of a sample of workers in Barcelona (N = 8,651) over a decade (2008–2019). Contrasting with the common view that tourism growth brings prosperity to local communities, it suggests instead that buoyant destinations may be prone to leaving their workforces behind. Path analysis modelling reveals that tourism se…
Urban routines, spatial occupancy, and their effects on outdoor crime in Barcelona
Based on mobile phone data from the city of Barcelona, Spain, generalized linear models are used to analyse the relationship between urban mobilities and the spatial and temporal patterning of robbery and theft. The hypothesis was made that mobility fluxes may undermine social control mechanisms by altering the socio-demographic composition of urban populations, therefore increasing the risk of crime victimization. The analysis brought together i…
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona
This paper incorporates an explicit mobility dimension into the definition of the neighbourhood and explores its possible implications for the study of spatially distributed phenomena. We analysed the distribution of robbery and theft in Barcelona, Spain, as a testing application. Crime data were aggregated to nonoverlapping units (census tracts) and to a new measure of overlapping neighbourhoods, that we named ‘walkhoods’, accounting for the dis…
Predictors of young people’s anti-vaccine attitudes in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
The objective of this research was to explore how attitudes to science and scientists may be related to anti-vax positions and whether the psychological trait known as Need for Closure may influence the relationship between any or all of these attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 1128 young people aged 18–25 living in Italy during the COVID-19 health crisis. Based on the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyse…
Socio-spatial trajectories and health disparities among older adults in Chile
In this study, we examine residential trajectories since birth among older adults in the Santiago Metropolitan Area, Chile, and their association with health outcomes. We linked retrospective residential information for a sample of 802 individuals aged 65-75 in 2019 to context-based information from decennial censuses. Our analysis reveals substantive heterogeneity in individuals' residential trajectories, thus mirroring social and urban changes …
Geography (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Feeling (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)