New paper out 🎓:

Personality Traits and Provision of Grandparental Childcare: Evidence from Europe (w/ @valeriabordone.bsky.social, Giorgio Di Gessa & @mdkraemer.bsky.social

Using data from @share-eric.bsky.social, we find personality matters for grandhild care provision

doi.org/10.1080/1535...

🚀 2-year Postdoc opportunity with me on older adults, digital technologies & wellbeing.

Flexible location/remote-friendly

Deadline 9 Oct, 13:00 CEST

Details & how to apply (both ITA/ENG):

www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se...

#Postdoc #Ageing #Demography #DigitalInequality

The program for the 1st Sustainable Ageing Conference (EAPS Working Group @eaps.bsky.social) is online!

www.eaps.nl/page/sustain...

📍 Padua, Italy
📅 Sept 11–12
🎤 Keynote: Pearl Dykstra
⚡ 25 flash talks + posters

Free registration (limited spots, first-come-first-served):
forms.gle/kfmk1HFc8eVG...

Wow! It will be compulsory in Spain to make micro data available when publishing electoral polls!

🚨 The deadline is approaching! 🚨

Submit your extended abstract to the 1st Conference of the Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the
@eaps.bsky.social

🗓 Deadline: 21 March 2025

See the Call for Papers for details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c

@valeriabordone.bsky.social

📅 May 16, 2025, 10:30–12:30 | Univ. of Padua 🎓:

“What Makes a Rigorous Quantitative Social Research?”

w/ Prof. David Bartram, Editor of Social Indicators Research

Register at: shorturl.at/eJJwW

Yet another paper on how (not) to choose control variables? Yes!

We really need such papers published in at least one journal per discipline because bad or unjustified choices of controls are so common!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our R package CMatching is back on CRAN

Huge credit to Massimo Cannas!

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

CMatching implements propensity score matching with clustered data based on the methods in Arpino & Cannas 2106 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...)

#causalinference
#rstats

The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies announces its first conference!

11-12 September 2025
Padua, Italy

Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2025

See the attached call for papers for further details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c

@valeriabordone.bsky.social

Don't miss the chance to improve your methodological skills while spending some time in the wonderful Barcelona!!!

The 11th edition of the RECSM Summer Methods School run by the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology  is coming up!

Deadline: June 14

www.upf.edu/web/survey/2...

The first meeting of the @EAPS_pop Sustainable Ageing Working Group will take place at the
#EPC2024 in Edinburgh.

Save the date 12 June 2024, 15:00-16:30 and book a place (first-come-first-served) on
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

More info at eaps.nl/page/sustain...

"The Machine Learning Control Method for Counterfactual Forecasting"

by Augusto Cerqua

is the Tomorrow's seminar at the Department of Statistics of the University of Padua!

If you are in Padua don't miss it!

www.stat.unipd.it/ricerca/acad...

2 new working papers on Mixture of Latent Trait Analyzers for the analysis of digital technologies (DT) use

MLTA can provide profiles of DT use and insights on their determinants

This is part of the thesis of my fantastic PhD student Dalila Failli

#digitaldivide

In about an hour I will give a seminar to introduce myself to the new colleagues at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua

I'm so excited!