D Bellani
Biographic Data
| ID | 49366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Bellani |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bellani |
| SIGNATURE | BELLANI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0672-925X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gender Division of Unpaid Work and Relationship Satisfaction
A comprehensive overview of a large-scale survey on inequality perceptions (IneqPer) in Italy
The article describes the content, the methodology and the selected results deriving from a large-scale cross-sectional IneqPer survey in Italy ( n = 12,000, 2024/2025) aimed at understanding the determinants of inequality perceptions and their consequences for public opinion. The dataset offers novel dimensions that include the questions on global inequality and global redistribution, individual position in global distribution, the perceived soc…
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…
Partners' Age Difference and Marital Dissolution in Italy. A Cohort Comparison
Among the factors related to marital disruption, age assortative mating (who marries whom in terms of age) has received less attention than others. In this study, we study the association between partners' age difference and marital disruption in Italy, a late-comer country in divorce legislation and highly conservative in its culture and institutions. We also show how this association varies across marriage cohorts. We employ data from 'Families…
La condizione reddituale delle famiglie italiane all'epoca del Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has had health and economic repercussions. The blocking of productive activities to contrast the spread of the virus has led to an increase in unemployment and a contraction in labour income. This paper analyses the income dynamics of Italian households in three different periods of 2020 – the year of the pandemic outbreak and the adoption of containment measures – as well as future income expectations. Data are drawn from t…
Industrial Robots and Regional Fertility in European Countries
In this study, we examine whether the long-term structural changes in the labour market, driven by automation, affect fertility. The adoption of industrial robots is used as a proxy for these changes. It has tripled since the mid-1990s in the EU, tremendously changing the conditions of participating in the labour market. On the one hand, new jobs are created, benefitting largely the highly skilled workers. On the other hand, the growing turnover …
Love, work and the lockdown. Partnership quality and intentions to split during the lockdown in Italy, France and Spain
This study contributes to the growing strand of research on the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The home confinement imposed as part of nationwide movement restrictions in many countries represents an exceptional setting for the study of intimate relationships. Did the lockdown reduce partnership quality? In this study, we present some descriptive findings based on a online survey conducted during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Risk tolerance and fertility
Objective This article offers a contribution to the fertility literature by considering the role of risk tolerance in the fertility decision‐making process. Background Despite a long tradition in fertility research emphasizing the great uncertainty underlying the decision to have children, the role of risk tolerance has been overlooked. Elaborating on previous theoretical approaches including those that have considered children as a “security” or…
Juggling Grandchild Care and Labor Force Participation
Although it is well-known that care responsibilities are strongly gendered also in later life, the consequences for older women of juggling work and care responsibilities are understudied. This study contributes to fill this gap by focusing on the wellbeing implications for older European women of combining work and grandchild care. The role strain and role enhancement theories guide our theoretical predictions. While the former predicts a lower …
Parental time preferences and educational choices
This paper contributes to the literature on Relative Risk Aversion theory in two ways: first, by considering that the effect of time preferences may differ according to both children's gender and social origin; second, by exploring this possibility for different educational outcomes: upper secondary school choices and university enrollment. We use data of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth, which contains questions specifically addressed t…
Reformed American Dreams
Cross-country studies on poverty show that in the United States, compared to other developed countries, single mothers currently have an extremely high risk of being poor—a risk that is about 35 percent. Many studies about poor single mothers in the United States have emphasized that policy-makers and prevailing societal ideology are likely to depict them as women that are irresponsible, since they had children in hard economic conditions (see, e…
Time preferences and fertility
Fertility decisions, as all life actions, imply a balancing of anticipated costs and benefits whose expectations are formed under uncertainty. Fertility research has addressed the backward reasonings (e.g., socioeconomic, psychological, biological factors)
The institutional and cultural framing of the educational stratification in fertility. A review of the role of labor market institutions and attitudinal orientations
Knockin’ on heaven’s door? Reframing the debate on temporary employment and wages
This article reframes the debate on the consequences of flexibilization in European labour markets focusing on the unexplored impact of temporary employment on occupational wages for permanent workers. Exploiting the variation in the temps’ density within occupation and age groups across European countries between 2003 and 2010, we find that temporary contracts negatively affect occupational average wages for insiders’ workers. These results are …
When equity matters for marital stability
Comparing West Germany and the U.S., we analyze the association between equity-in terms of the relative gender division of paid and unpaid work hours-and the risk of marriage dissolution. Our aim is to identify under what conditions equity influences couple stability. We apply event-history analysis to marriage histories using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West Germany and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the U.S. for the pe…
Never partnered
Lifelong singlehood is a comparatively rare demographic phenomenon, averaging about 5% across the European Union. However, levels of lifelong singlehood vary greatly between countries in Europe. What explains this variation? Our main thesis is that it refl
Never partnered
Lifelong singlehood is a comparatively rare demographic phenomenon, averaging about 5% across the European Union. However, levels of lifelong singlehood vary greatly between countries in Europe. What explains this variation? Our main thesis is that it refl
When equity matters for marital stability
Comparing West Germany and the U.S., we analyze the association between equity-in terms of the relative gender division of paid and unpaid work hours-and the risk of marriage dissolution. Our aim is to identify under what conditions equity influences couple stability. We apply event-history analysis to marriage histories using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West Germany and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the U.S. for the pe…
Knockin’ on heaven’s door? Reframing the debate on temporary employment and wages
This article reframes the debate on the consequences of flexibilization in European labour markets focusing on the unexplored impact of temporary employment on occupational wages for permanent workers. Exploiting the variation in the temps’ density within occupation and age groups across European countries between 2003 and 2010, we find that temporary contracts negatively affect occupational average wages for insiders’ workers. These results are …
Industrial Robots and Regional Fertility in European Countries
In this study, we examine whether the long-term structural changes in the labour market, driven by automation, affect fertility. The adoption of industrial robots is used as a proxy for these changes. It has tripled since the mid-1990s in the EU, tremendously changing the conditions of participating in the labour market. On the one hand, new jobs are created, benefitting largely the highly skilled workers. On the other hand, the growing turnover …
Time preferences and fertility
Fertility decisions, as all life actions, imply a balancing of anticipated costs and benefits whose expectations are formed under uncertainty. Fertility research has addressed the backward reasonings (e.g., socioeconomic, psychological, biological factors)
Juggling Grandchild Care and Labor Force Participation
Although it is well-known that care responsibilities are strongly gendered also in later life, the consequences for older women of juggling work and care responsibilities are understudied. This study contributes to fill this gap by focusing on the wellbeing implications for older European women of combining work and grandchild care. The role strain and role enhancement theories guide our theoretical predictions. While the former predicts a lower …
Parental time preferences and educational choices
This paper contributes to the literature on Relative Risk Aversion theory in two ways: first, by considering that the effect of time preferences may differ according to both children's gender and social origin; second, by exploring this possibility for different educational outcomes: upper secondary school choices and university enrollment. We use data of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth, which contains questions specifically addressed t…
Never partnered
Lifelong singlehood is a comparatively rare demographic phenomenon, averaging about 5% across the European Union. However, levels of lifelong singlehood vary greatly between countries in Europe. What explains this variation? Our main thesis is that it refl
When equity matters for marital stability
Comparing West Germany and the U.S., we analyze the association between equity-in terms of the relative gender division of paid and unpaid work hours-and the risk of marriage dissolution. Our aim is to identify under what conditions equity influences couple stability. We apply event-history analysis to marriage histories using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West Germany and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the U.S. for the pe…
Knockin’ on heaven’s door? Reframing the debate on temporary employment and wages
This article reframes the debate on the consequences of flexibilization in European labour markets focusing on the unexplored impact of temporary employment on occupational wages for permanent workers. Exploiting the variation in the temps’ density within occupation and age groups across European countries between 2003 and 2010, we find that temporary contracts negatively affect occupational average wages for insiders’ workers. These results are …
The institutional and cultural framing of the educational stratification in fertility. A review of the role of labor market institutions and attitudinal orientations
Reformed American Dreams
Cross-country studies on poverty show that in the United States, compared to other developed countries, single mothers currently have an extremely high risk of being poor—a risk that is about 35 percent. Many studies about poor single mothers in the United States have emphasized that policy-makers and prevailing societal ideology are likely to depict them as women that are irresponsible, since they had children in hard economic conditions (see, e…
Time preferences and fertility
Fertility decisions, as all life actions, imply a balancing of anticipated costs and benefits whose expectations are formed under uncertainty. Fertility research has addressed the backward reasonings (e.g., socioeconomic, psychological, biological factors)
Love, work and the lockdown. Partnership quality and intentions to split during the lockdown in Italy, France and Spain
This study contributes to the growing strand of research on the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The home confinement imposed as part of nationwide movement restrictions in many countries represents an exceptional setting for the study of intimate relationships. Did the lockdown reduce partnership quality? In this study, we present some descriptive findings based on a online survey conducted during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Risk tolerance and fertility
Objective This article offers a contribution to the fertility literature by considering the role of risk tolerance in the fertility decision‐making process. Background Despite a long tradition in fertility research emphasizing the great uncertainty underlying the decision to have children, the role of risk tolerance has been overlooked. Elaborating on previous theoretical approaches including those that have considered children as a “security” or…
Juggling Grandchild Care and Labor Force Participation
Although it is well-known that care responsibilities are strongly gendered also in later life, the consequences for older women of juggling work and care responsibilities are understudied. This study contributes to fill this gap by focusing on the wellbeing implications for older European women of combining work and grandchild care. The role strain and role enhancement theories guide our theoretical predictions. While the former predicts a lower …
Parental time preferences and educational choices
This paper contributes to the literature on Relative Risk Aversion theory in two ways: first, by considering that the effect of time preferences may differ according to both children's gender and social origin; second, by exploring this possibility for different educational outcomes: upper secondary school choices and university enrollment. We use data of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth, which contains questions specifically addressed t…
La condizione reddituale delle famiglie italiane all'epoca del Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has had health and economic repercussions. The blocking of productive activities to contrast the spread of the virus has led to an increase in unemployment and a contraction in labour income. This paper analyses the income dynamics of Italian households in three different periods of 2020 – the year of the pandemic outbreak and the adoption of containment measures – as well as future income expectations. Data are drawn from t…
Industrial Robots and Regional Fertility in European Countries
In this study, we examine whether the long-term structural changes in the labour market, driven by automation, affect fertility. The adoption of industrial robots is used as a proxy for these changes. It has tripled since the mid-1990s in the EU, tremendously changing the conditions of participating in the labour market. On the one hand, new jobs are created, benefitting largely the highly skilled workers. On the other hand, the growing turnover …
Partners' Age Difference and Marital Dissolution in Italy. A Cohort Comparison
Among the factors related to marital disruption, age assortative mating (who marries whom in terms of age) has received less attention than others. In this study, we study the association between partners' age difference and marital disruption in Italy, a late-comer country in divorce legislation and highly conservative in its culture and institutions. We also show how this association varies across marriage cohorts. We employ data from 'Families…
Gender Division of Unpaid Work and Relationship Satisfaction
A comprehensive overview of a large-scale survey on inequality perceptions (IneqPer) in Italy
The article describes the content, the methodology and the selected results deriving from a large-scale cross-sectional IneqPer survey in Italy ( n = 12,000, 2024/2025) aimed at understanding the determinants of inequality perceptions and their consequences for public opinion. The dataset offers novel dimensions that include the questions on global inequality and global redistribution, individual position in global distribution, the perceived soc…
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…
Psychology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Fertility (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)