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UPS - The Population and Society Unit of the University of Florence, Italy.
New publication on Population Space and Place by Alessandro Gallo & Daniele Vignoli!

❓ Better Home, More Children?
👉 In #Italy, having children goes hand in hand with owning a home, especially for those who can sustain higher #housing expenses.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Second General Meeting of the #AgeIt project is underway in wonderful Naples, where many researchers from our team are presenting their latest contributions to demographic research on population ageing!

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@alderotti.bsky.social @elibrini.bsky.social @karlosj89.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🔥 New publication by @marcocozzani.bsky.social, Tocchioni, Vignoli et al. in @demresjournal.bsky.social examines ART birth disparities, showing they don’t seem to stem from treatment success — at least within Italy’s public, widely subsidized system.

🔗 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
October 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Our members were also in Cologne for #ECSR2025, contributing to the programme with @aballerini.bsky.social, B. Cacciamani, @marcocozzani.bsky.social, @giuliafeltrin.bsky.social, @karlosj89.bsky.social & MF Morabito. 🙌
A very inspiring conference — looking forward to the next occasions to meet! 👋
September 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Glad to have been present at the #RSS25 conference, where — among other contributions — Valentina Tocchioni presented work with Vignoli, Lazzari & @marcocozzani.bsky.social on attitudes towards assisted reproductive technology in Italy.
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
UPS is well represented at #PopDays2025 - many of our researchers have already presented / are presenting their work over the next few days!
If you’re around, come say hi - we’d love to connect!
June 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Elena Pirani is at the Poster Session P08-Family demography presenting her work “Caregivers' mental health: gender and age differences” w/ Cunsolo & Tocchioni.
#PAA25
April 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Waiting for you to come at the next poster session (P07) to see Carlos’ poster about educational inequality in the World!
@karlosj89.bsky.social @paolobrunori.bsky.social @mtriventi.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Shoutout to Andrea @aballerini.bsky.social for his first #PAA2025!
👉 He’s presenting on the subjective wellbeing of single-parent families in Europe.
April 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Poster session 04 at #PAA2025: there’s our poster about Climate change narratives and fertility in the UK - by Ewa Weychert, Vignoli & @amatysiak.bsky.social
@labfam.bsky.social

Come and say hi! 👋
April 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Session 046 - Transition to adulthood: @danilobolano.bsky.social presents a contribution about psychological distress in adolescence and life course trajectories in early adulthood in the UK (w/ @sironimaria.bsky.social & Chiara Serra).
#PAA2025
April 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Let’s get it started at #PAA25!
Elena Pirani is at the Poster Session 01 with her contribution titled “Kinship Networks, Kinlessness, and Friendship Across Different Ages:
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Italian case Over Two Decades” - w/ @brunoarpino.bsky.social, Pittavino & Meli
April 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
👉 Starting now: the launch event of Age-Florence, a research institute that brings together several departments of the University of Florence to conduct cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on aging.
December 19, 2024 at 1:48 PM
🔎 Join the final Workshop of the UnFamiLiC project!

📅 November 25th, 9:00am-5:00pm
📍 University of Florence (Polo Didattico Morgagni, Room 203).

✅ Sign up now – free event! tinyurl.com/3prbyhkd

👉 For more information, click here: tinyurl.com/mpd2pzuj
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Want to know more about kinlessness in EU?

👉 New paper by Marta Pittavino, @brunoarpino.bsky.social & Elena Pirani - just accepted on the Journal of Gerontology series B, from the Age-It research project.

🔗 tinyurl.com/45dpywyb
October 31, 2024 at 8:00 AM
New work by Bastianelli, Guetto & Vignoli shows that even in Italy, union dissolutions show a shift from a positive to a negative educational and social class gradient, also among men!
#openaccess 👇
📰 Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 17, 2024 at 10:14 AM
First presentation of today’s FloPS workshop is by Alessandro Gallo who presents a work about housing insecurity and fertility in Italy 👇
May 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Another FloPS workshop is about to start - with a keynote speech by @lucampesando.bsky.social about family change in India. @clic.bsky.social
May 30, 2024 at 1:05 PM
🎉 Join us live for the Launch Event of the National Doctoral Program in 'Life Course Research'!

👉 Tune in now and follow the event here:
🔗https://unifi.it/webtv
February 29, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Check out this new publication by Marco Tosi and Raffaele Guetto on @familyresearch.bsky.social. 👇
They investigate the association between parental separation during childhood and later parent-child contact frequency and whether it varies according to parental gender and education.
January 26, 2024 at 8:17 AM
🎉 Many congratulations to Daniele Vignoli, who was awarded the 🏆European Demographer Award🏆 2023 by Population Europe at the Berlin Demography Days!

Well deserved! 👏👏👏
January 24, 2024 at 1:32 PM
🔵 Exciting news!

UPS - the Unit of Population Studies at the University of Florence is now on Bluesky! 🎉

👉 Stay up-to-date with our latest research and join this vibrant community. Spread the word and invite your fellow thinkers to connect with us!
January 18, 2024 at 11:49 AM