Dr. Brigitte Adriaensen
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Hispanic Literature
Social and behavioural sciences
Demography
Family demography (life-course analysis, transition to adulthood, family formation and disruption, fertility) and its links with economic and subjective wellbeing, time use, gender diversity, and migration in a policy and welfare state perspective.
English, French, Italian, Latin, Norwegian
M. Le Moglie, L. Mencarini, C. Rapallini (2018), “Does Income Moderate the Parental Satisfaction after the Birth of the First Child? In Germany It Does and Depends on Education”, Journal of Population Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-018-0689-9 (First Online: 05 March 2018).
L. Mencarini, D. Vignoli (2018), “Employed Women and Marital Union Stability: It Helps When Men Help”, Journal of Family Issues, 39(5): 1348-1373.
P. Conzo, G. Fuochi, L. Mencarini (2017), “Fertility and Life Satisfaction in Rural Ethiopia”, Demography, 54 (4): 1331-1351.
P. Conzo, A. Aassve, G. Fuochi, L. Mencarini (2017), “The cultural foundation of happiness”, Journal of Economic Psychology ,62C: 268-283.
L. Mencarini, A. Pailhé, A. Solaz, M.L.Tanturri (2017) “The time benefits of young adult home stayers in France and Italy: a new perspective on the transition to adulthood?”, Genus, 73:6, published on line 25 July 2017.
L. Mencarini, S. Pasqua, A. Romiti (2017), “Single-mother families and the gender gap in children’s time investment and non-cognitive skills”, Review of Economics of the Household, published on line 24 August 2017.
H.P. Kohler, L. Mencarini (2016), “The Parenthood Happiness Puzzle: An Introduction to Special Issue”, European Journal of Population, 32 (3), 327-338.
A Matysiak, L. Mencarini, D Vignoli (2016), “Work–Family Conflict Moderates the Relationship between Childbearing and Subjective Well-Being”, European Journal of Population, 32 (3), 355-379.
M. Le Moglie, L. Mencarini, C. Rapallini (2015), “Is it just a matter of personality? On the role of well-being in childbearing behavior”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 117: 453–475.
A. Aassve, L. Mencarini, M. Sironi (2015), “Institutional change, happiness and fertility”, European Sociological Review, 31(6), 749-765.
P.I, Awarded with an ERC (Consolidator) Research Grant, project n.313617 "SWELLFER – Subjective well-being and fertility" (Hosting Institution: Dondena, Bocconi Unviersity), 2013 – 2018
Member of the project on "FamiliesAndSocieties – Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations", funded by EU in the FP7 program, coordinated by Livia Oláh, at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), 2013 – 2017
Member of the national project "Practices and Policies around Parenthood. Work-family balance and childcare in multicultural contexts", P.I. Manuela Naldini, 2012 – 2014
Research fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, IT
Research associate at ISER – MISOC, the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex, UK
Research associate at DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan, IT
Member of CHILD (Center for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics)
Expert for Population Europe (the network of Europe's leading demographic research centres)
IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population); EAPS (European Association for Population Studies); PAA (Population Association of America); AISP (Italian Association for Population Studies); SIS (Statistical Italian Society); ISQOLS (International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies); AIQUAV (Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies)
Independent expert for European Commission, acting as "remote" and "on site" evaluator for projects of the 7th Framework Programme, 2009 – 2010 – 2013
Independent evaluator for sociology projects of Qatar National Research Fund, 2013 – 2014
Consultant at Unicef, project: "A Statistical Portrait of Children in Immigrant Families for Selected Rich Countries", UNICEF – IRC, Florence, Italy, 2007 – 2009
Member of Scientific Committee of AISP and elected secretary, 2003 – 2005
Consultant at Unicef, responsible for a data-base on socio-economic conditions of children in Southern Mediterranean countries, project: "Medin, towards a new Agenda for Children in the Southern Mediterranean Countries", UNICEF – IRC, Florence, Italy, 2000 – 2001
Referee for journals: Acta Sociologica, Advances in Life Course Research, Demographic Research, European Journal of Population, European Sociological Review, Feminist Economics, Genus, International Migration Review, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Population Research, Polis, Population Review, Population Space and Place, Population Studies, Population, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Time & Society.
Sunday Telegraph (UK), New York Times Magazine (USA) and The Herald Tribune (USA), Il Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, Venerdì di Repubblica, D di Repubblica, La Stampa, Metropolis, Bimbisani & Belli, Panorama, L’Espresso, Mamma e donna, Airone, Internazionale, Elle magazine.
National Public Radio (US), BBC, Repubblica Radio, Isoradio, Blu radio, Ansa Popolare Network, Radio Città Futura, and other national/local radios, Radio 3 (Tutta la città ne parla).
Rai 1: Porta a porta; Rai 2: TV- Educational (Un mondo a colori); Rai 3: Petrolio.
Co-author of the documentary for Politelevision-Tuscany Region of “Job and life time: a difficult reconciliation” (in Italian), directed by F. Todesco.
Family: married, with two children (born 2009 and 2012)
Hobbies: Iyengar yoga since 1994, classical-jazz music lover
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Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Hispanic Literature
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Social and behavioural sciences, Neurocognitive psychology
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences