Alessandro Rosina
Biographic Data
| ID | 184707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Rosina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosina |
| SIGNATURE | ROSINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0158-0583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Employment Vulnerability and Union Dissolution: Evidence on Intentions and Behaviors in Times of Covid-19 in Five European Countries
Trends in fertility preferences among Italian young adults
In examining Italy's low fertility, recent studies have emphasized the role played by socio-economic factors, uncertainty, and the welfare state. Meanwhile, emerging research is highlighting a potential downward revision of fertility ideals among more recent generations. Our study analyses trends in fertility desires and expectations among young adults in Italy from 2012 to 2022. Findings reveal growing tendencies to: (1) not desire children, amo…
Évolutions régionales des naissances pendant l'épidémie de Covid-19 en Allemagne, en Espagne, en France et en Italie: Le rôle des facteurs économiques et de la surmortalité
Les données recueillies au début de la pandémie de Covid-19 révèlent des effets contrastés sur le nombre de naissances en Europe. Cette note de recherche compare les tendances régionales du taux global de fécondité (TGF) avant et après le début de la pandémie dans les quatre pays européens les plus peuplés : l'Allemagne, l'Espagne, la France et l'Italie. Elle examine la relation entre l'évolution du TGF pendant la pandémie et différents facteurs …
Leaving and returning to the parental home during Covid times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: During the first year of the COVID pandemic, many European young adults abandoned or delayed their plans to achieve housing autonomy, especially those facing vulnerable employment conditions and in contexts with limited welfare state provision for the young population. OBJECTIVE: The present study contributes to this body of knowledge by examining plans and behaviours associated with leaving the parental home among young individuals (…
Motivations for changing fertility plans and behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy
This study accounts for the heterogeneous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on fertility plans and behaviours, by focusing on the motivations for suspended pre-Covid fertility plans and on those for new fertility plans that arose during the pandemic. We rely on unique data collected with a repeated cross-sectional survey conducted in April/May 2021 and October/November 2021 on a sample of young Italians (aged 18–34). We estimate a set of mult…
Employment Status and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study on Young Italian People
The Measure of Population Aging in Different Welfare Regimes: A Bayesian Dynamic Modeling Approach
Forever young? An analysis of the factors influencing perceptions of ageing
Drawing on the revived literature on the subjective dimension of ageing, this paper investigates whether people aged 65+, usually defined as old, do actually feel old and which events they associate with feeling old. Logistic models are used on unique data from the 2013 survey called ‘I Do Not Want to Be Inactive’, conducted on individuals aged 65–74 in Italy (N = 828). It is found that a large proportion of respondents do not feel old at all. Th…
The impact of Covid-19 on fertility plans in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom
This study offers a descriptive overview of changes in fertility plans during the COVID-19 crisis in a sample of the young population (18â 34) in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The data were collected between 27 March and 7 April 202
Traditional versus Facebook-based surveys: Evaluation of biases in self-reported demographic and psychometric information
Social media in scientiï¬ c research offers a unique digital observatory of human behaviours and hence great opportunities to conduct research at large scale, answering complex sociodemographic questions. We focus on the identiï¬ cation and assessment of biase
L'autonomia dei giovani italiani fra buone intenzioni e difficili realizzazioni. Uno studio longitudinale
The dejuvenation of the Italian population
In recent decades, a process of structural reduction of the weight of new generations in overall population (dejuvenation) has been observed. In Italy, this process started in the 1970s and accelerated in the 1990s. We present here its main consequences for Italian society and economy. The number of Italian young people (aged 0–29) was reduced from 24.5 million in 1951 (51.6% of the population) to 17.5 million in 2016 (28.8%). What is more, many …
The effect of the Great Recession on permanent childlessness in Italy
The Great Recession had a strong effect not only on the economy of developed countries but also on family dynamics. Many studies investigate how the crisis affected fertility behavior, but the link between economic shocks and childbearing is still debated
The Effect of Couple Disagreement about Child-Timing Intentions: A Parity-Specific Approach
Using couple data from a longitudinal study conducted in Italy, a country with persistently low fertility levels, we examined the effect of partners' discrepant child-timing intentions on reproductive behavior. We found that the effect of couple disagreement on subsequent fertility is parity-specific and does not depend on whether only the male or the female partner intends to have a(nother) child. The disagreement tends to produce an intermediat…
The role of education in the reconciliation between female occupation and family responsibilities at mid-life: The Italian case
Age and Fertility: Can Women Wait Until Their Early Thirties to Try for a First Birth?
Postponing the start of childbearing raises the question of fertility postponed versus fertility foregone. One of the limitations of previous studies of ‘How late can you wait?’ is that any observed decline in the probability of conception with age could be due to a decline in fecundability with age or due to a decline in coital frequency with age or due to both factors. Using data from a multinational longitudinal study conducted to determine th…
An Analysis of Extremely High Nineteenth-Century Winter Neonatal Mortality in a Local Context of Northeastern Italy
A note on: The joint effect of maternal malnutrition and cold weather on neonatal mortality in nineteenth-century Venice: An assessment of the hypothermia hypothesis, Population Studies 63(3): 233–251…
In a paper published in this journal, Renzo Derosas (2009) presents a study on the determinants of infant mortality in nineteenth-century Veneto in which he uses micro-data to analyse the relationship between maternal malnutrition and the risk of dying during the first weeks of life. Emphasizing that the case of Veneto, a large region in north-eastern Italy, is of particular interest, he says 'Scattered evidence from parish-register studies sugge…
Couples’ First Child Intentions and Disagreement: An Analysis of the Italian Case
Lowest-Low Fertility: Signs of a recovery in Italy
This study aims to describe the process of birth postponement and recovery in Italy, a country with persistent very low fertility levels. The case of Italy is particularly significant given that this country carries great demographic weight in "So
Young Adults Living Apart and Together (LAT) with Parents: A Three-level Analysis of the Italian Case
Billari F. C., Rosina A., Ranaldi R. and Romano M. C. Young adults living apart and together (LAT) with parents: a three-level analysis of the Italian case, Regional Studies. This paper introduces the notion of living apart together (LAT) with one's parents as a status in the transition to adulthood. LAT with parents is defined as the situation in which young adults who reside with their parents spend a significant amount of that time living outs…
Intergenerational family ties and the diffusion of cohabitation in Italy
Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place unif
A model with long-term survivors for the analysis of current-status nuptiality data
The model proposed in this paper combines a logistic regression model and a Weibull regression model for the analysis of current-status data. This joint model allows a simultaneous estimation of two sets of effects on the covariates: one on the probability that the event occurs (also known as quantum) and the other on the timing of the event. Thus, the model can be seen either as an extension of a survival-analysis model for use with current-stat…
Interdependence between sexual debut and church attendance in Italy
The influence of religion on an individualâ s life-course in general â and on sexual behaviour in particular â has long been recognised by social scientists, although few studies have explored the reciprocal causal interdependence between religiosity an
Is marriage losing its centrality in Italy
Unlike the countries of north-western Europe, marriage in Italy has maintained a crucial role in the process of family formation. This raise doubts about the possibility that the theory of "second demographic transition" could adequately account for th
Is marriage losing its centrality in Italy
Unlike the countries of north-western Europe, marriage in Italy has maintained a crucial role in the process of family formation. This raise doubts about the possibility that the theory of "second demographic transition" could adequately account for th
The impact of Covid-19 on fertility plans in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom
This study offers a descriptive overview of changes in fertility plans during the COVID-19 crisis in a sample of the young population (18â 34) in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The data were collected between 27 March and 7 April 202
Intergenerational family ties and the diffusion of cohabitation in Italy
Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place unif
The Effect of Couple Disagreement about Child-Timing Intentions: A Parity-Specific Approach
Using couple data from a longitudinal study conducted in Italy, a country with persistently low fertility levels, we examined the effect of partners' discrepant child-timing intentions on reproductive behavior. We found that the effect of couple disagreement on subsequent fertility is parity-specific and does not depend on whether only the male or the female partner intends to have a(nother) child. The disagreement tends to produce an intermediat…
Parental Housing Assistance and Parent-Child Proximity in Italy
Many studies of intergenerational exchanges include parent-child proximity as an exogenous explanatory variable. Proximity may itself be a consequence of intergenerational resource flows, however. We analyze patterns of economic transfers between generations and their relationship to parent-child proximity in Italy. Parental support for a child's home purchase may influence the child's choice of location, whether to facilitate parent-child contac…
An Analysis of Extremely High Nineteenth-Century Winter Neonatal Mortality in a Local Context of Northeastern Italy
Lowest-Low Fertility: Signs of a recovery in Italy
This study aims to describe the process of birth postponement and recovery in Italy, a country with persistent very low fertility levels. The case of Italy is particularly significant given that this country carries great demographic weight in "So
Couples’ First Child Intentions and Disagreement: An Analysis of the Italian Case
Traditional versus Facebook-based surveys: Evaluation of biases in self-reported demographic and psychometric information
Social media in scientiï¬ c research offers a unique digital observatory of human behaviours and hence great opportunities to conduct research at large scale, answering complex sociodemographic questions. We focus on the identiï¬ cation and assessment of biase
The effect of the Great Recession on permanent childlessness in Italy
The Great Recession had a strong effect not only on the economy of developed countries but also on family dynamics. Many studies investigate how the crisis affected fertility behavior, but the link between economic shocks and childbearing is still debated
Young Adults Living Apart and Together (LAT) with Parents: A Three-level Analysis of the Italian Case
Billari F. C., Rosina A., Ranaldi R. and Romano M. C. Young adults living apart and together (LAT) with parents: a three-level analysis of the Italian case, Regional Studies. This paper introduces the notion of living apart together (LAT) with one's parents as a status in the transition to adulthood. LAT with parents is defined as the situation in which young adults who reside with their parents spend a significant amount of that time living outs…
Interdependence between sexual debut and church attendance in Italy
The influence of religion on an individualâ s life-course in general â and on sexual behaviour in particular â has long been recognised by social scientists, although few studies have explored the reciprocal causal interdependence between religiosity an
Forever young? An analysis of the factors influencing perceptions of ageing
Drawing on the revived literature on the subjective dimension of ageing, this paper investigates whether people aged 65+, usually defined as old, do actually feel old and which events they associate with feeling old. Logistic models are used on unique data from the 2013 survey called ‘I Do Not Want to Be Inactive’, conducted on individuals aged 65–74 in Italy (N = 828). It is found that a large proportion of respondents do not feel old at all. Th…
Employment Status and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study on Young Italian People
The dejuvenation of the Italian population
In recent decades, a process of structural reduction of the weight of new generations in overall population (dejuvenation) has been observed. In Italy, this process started in the 1970s and accelerated in the 1990s. We present here its main consequences for Italian society and economy. The number of Italian young people (aged 0–29) was reduced from 24.5 million in 1951 (51.6% of the population) to 17.5 million in 2016 (28.8%). What is more, many …
Évolutions régionales des naissances pendant l'épidémie de Covid-19 en Allemagne, en Espagne, en France et en Italie: Le rôle des facteurs économiques et de la surmortalité
Les données recueillies au début de la pandémie de Covid-19 révèlent des effets contrastés sur le nombre de naissances en Europe. Cette note de recherche compare les tendances régionales du taux global de fécondité (TGF) avant et après le début de la pandémie dans les quatre pays européens les plus peuplés : l'Allemagne, l'Espagne, la France et l'Italie. Elle examine la relation entre l'évolution du TGF pendant la pandémie et différents facteurs …
Motivations for changing fertility plans and behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy
This study accounts for the heterogeneous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on fertility plans and behaviours, by focusing on the motivations for suspended pre-Covid fertility plans and on those for new fertility plans that arose during the pandemic. We rely on unique data collected with a repeated cross-sectional survey conducted in April/May 2021 and October/November 2021 on a sample of young Italians (aged 18–34). We estimate a set of mult…
A model with long-term survivors for the analysis of current-status nuptiality data
The model proposed in this paper combines a logistic regression model and a Weibull regression model for the analysis of current-status data. This joint model allows a simultaneous estimation of two sets of effects on the covariates: one on the probability that the event occurs (also known as quantum) and the other on the timing of the event. Thus, the model can be seen either as an extension of a survival-analysis model for use with current-stat…
Leaving and returning to the parental home during Covid times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: During the first year of the COVID pandemic, many European young adults abandoned or delayed their plans to achieve housing autonomy, especially those facing vulnerable employment conditions and in contexts with limited welfare state provision for the young population. OBJECTIVE: The present study contributes to this body of knowledge by examining plans and behaviours associated with leaving the parental home among young individuals (…
The role of education in the reconciliation between female occupation and family responsibilities at mid-life: The Italian case
A note on: The joint effect of maternal malnutrition and cold weather on neonatal mortality in nineteenth-century Venice: An assessment of the hypothermia hypothesis, Population Studies 63(3): 233–251…
In a paper published in this journal, Renzo Derosas (2009) presents a study on the determinants of infant mortality in nineteenth-century Veneto in which he uses micro-data to analyse the relationship between maternal malnutrition and the risk of dying during the first weeks of life. Emphasizing that the case of Veneto, a large region in north-eastern Italy, is of particular interest, he says 'Scattered evidence from parish-register studies sugge…
Parental Housing Assistance and Parent-Child Proximity in Italy
Many studies of intergenerational exchanges include parent-child proximity as an exogenous explanatory variable. Proximity may itself be a consequence of intergenerational resource flows, however. We analyze patterns of economic transfers between generations and their relationship to parent-child proximity in Italy. Parental support for a child's home purchase may influence the child's choice of location, whether to facilitate parent-child contac…
Is marriage losing its centrality in Italy
Unlike the countries of north-western Europe, marriage in Italy has maintained a crucial role in the process of family formation. This raise doubts about the possibility that the theory of "second demographic transition" could adequately account for th
A model with long-term survivors for the analysis of current-status nuptiality data
The model proposed in this paper combines a logistic regression model and a Weibull regression model for the analysis of current-status data. This joint model allows a simultaneous estimation of two sets of effects on the covariates: one on the probability that the event occurs (also known as quantum) and the other on the timing of the event. Thus, the model can be seen either as an extension of a survival-analysis model for use with current-stat…
Interdependence between sexual debut and church attendance in Italy
The influence of religion on an individualâ s life-course in general â and on sexual behaviour in particular â has long been recognised by social scientists, although few studies have explored the reciprocal causal interdependence between religiosity an
Intergenerational family ties and the diffusion of cohabitation in Italy
Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place unif
Young Adults Living Apart and Together (LAT) with Parents: A Three-level Analysis of the Italian Case
Billari F. C., Rosina A., Ranaldi R. and Romano M. C. Young adults living apart and together (LAT) with parents: a three-level analysis of the Italian case, Regional Studies. This paper introduces the notion of living apart together (LAT) with one's parents as a status in the transition to adulthood. LAT with parents is defined as the situation in which young adults who reside with their parents spend a significant amount of that time living outs…
Couples’ First Child Intentions and Disagreement: An Analysis of the Italian Case
Lowest-Low Fertility: Signs of a recovery in Italy
This study aims to describe the process of birth postponement and recovery in Italy, a country with persistent very low fertility levels. The case of Italy is particularly significant given that this country carries great demographic weight in "So
A note on: The joint effect of maternal malnutrition and cold weather on neonatal mortality in nineteenth-century Venice: An assessment of the hypothermia hypothesis, Population Studies 63(3): 233–251…
In a paper published in this journal, Renzo Derosas (2009) presents a study on the determinants of infant mortality in nineteenth-century Veneto in which he uses micro-data to analyse the relationship between maternal malnutrition and the risk of dying during the first weeks of life. Emphasizing that the case of Veneto, a large region in north-eastern Italy, is of particular interest, he says 'Scattered evidence from parish-register studies sugge…
Age and Fertility: Can Women Wait Until Their Early Thirties to Try for a First Birth?
Postponing the start of childbearing raises the question of fertility postponed versus fertility foregone. One of the limitations of previous studies of ‘How late can you wait?’ is that any observed decline in the probability of conception with age could be due to a decline in fecundability with age or due to a decline in coital frequency with age or due to both factors. Using data from a multinational longitudinal study conducted to determine th…
An Analysis of Extremely High Nineteenth-Century Winter Neonatal Mortality in a Local Context of Northeastern Italy
The role of education in the reconciliation between female occupation and family responsibilities at mid-life: The Italian case
The Effect of Couple Disagreement about Child-Timing Intentions: A Parity-Specific Approach
Using couple data from a longitudinal study conducted in Italy, a country with persistently low fertility levels, we examined the effect of partners' discrepant child-timing intentions on reproductive behavior. We found that the effect of couple disagreement on subsequent fertility is parity-specific and does not depend on whether only the male or the female partner intends to have a(nother) child. The disagreement tends to produce an intermediat…
The effect of the Great Recession on permanent childlessness in Italy
The Great Recession had a strong effect not only on the economy of developed countries but also on family dynamics. Many studies investigate how the crisis affected fertility behavior, but the link between economic shocks and childbearing is still debated
The dejuvenation of the Italian population
In recent decades, a process of structural reduction of the weight of new generations in overall population (dejuvenation) has been observed. In Italy, this process started in the 1970s and accelerated in the 1990s. We present here its main consequences for Italian society and economy. The number of Italian young people (aged 0–29) was reduced from 24.5 million in 1951 (51.6% of the population) to 17.5 million in 2016 (28.8%). What is more, many …
L'autonomia dei giovani italiani fra buone intenzioni e difficili realizzazioni. Uno studio longitudinale
The Measure of Population Aging in Different Welfare Regimes: A Bayesian Dynamic Modeling Approach
Forever young? An analysis of the factors influencing perceptions of ageing
Drawing on the revived literature on the subjective dimension of ageing, this paper investigates whether people aged 65+, usually defined as old, do actually feel old and which events they associate with feeling old. Logistic models are used on unique data from the 2013 survey called ‘I Do Not Want to Be Inactive’, conducted on individuals aged 65–74 in Italy (N = 828). It is found that a large proportion of respondents do not feel old at all. Th…
The impact of Covid-19 on fertility plans in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom
This study offers a descriptive overview of changes in fertility plans during the COVID-19 crisis in a sample of the young population (18â 34) in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The data were collected between 27 March and 7 April 202
Traditional versus Facebook-based surveys: Evaluation of biases in self-reported demographic and psychometric information
Social media in scientiï¬ c research offers a unique digital observatory of human behaviours and hence great opportunities to conduct research at large scale, answering complex sociodemographic questions. We focus on the identiï¬ cation and assessment of biase
Motivations for changing fertility plans and behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy
This study accounts for the heterogeneous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on fertility plans and behaviours, by focusing on the motivations for suspended pre-Covid fertility plans and on those for new fertility plans that arose during the pandemic. We rely on unique data collected with a repeated cross-sectional survey conducted in April/May 2021 and October/November 2021 on a sample of young Italians (aged 18–34). We estimate a set of mult…
Employment Status and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study on Young Italian People
Évolutions régionales des naissances pendant l'épidémie de Covid-19 en Allemagne, en Espagne, en France et en Italie: Le rôle des facteurs économiques et de la surmortalité
Les données recueillies au début de la pandémie de Covid-19 révèlent des effets contrastés sur le nombre de naissances en Europe. Cette note de recherche compare les tendances régionales du taux global de fécondité (TGF) avant et après le début de la pandémie dans les quatre pays européens les plus peuplés : l'Allemagne, l'Espagne, la France et l'Italie. Elle examine la relation entre l'évolution du TGF pendant la pandémie et différents facteurs …
Leaving and returning to the parental home during Covid times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: During the first year of the COVID pandemic, many European young adults abandoned or delayed their plans to achieve housing autonomy, especially those facing vulnerable employment conditions and in contexts with limited welfare state provision for the young population. OBJECTIVE: The present study contributes to this body of knowledge by examining plans and behaviours associated with leaving the parental home among young individuals (…
Employment Vulnerability and Union Dissolution: Evidence on Intentions and Behaviors in Times of Covid-19 in Five European Countries
Sociology (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Population (13 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works)