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BRUNO ARPINO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Address

VIA CESARE BATTISTI, 241/243 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498274114

I am a social statistician at the Department of Statistical Science of the University of Padua (Italy).

My main research interests are: family relationships, ageing , older people's wellbeing, fertility, statistical methods for the social sciences, causal inference.

For more details, see the attached pdf file.

Notices

The LABORATORY OF DATA ANALYSIS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH moodle page is open.

All students who have this course in their study plan can register on this page.
For the others the registration key is: SUQ1094899N02022.

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  • Su appuntamento da richiedere tramite email (bruno.arpino@unipd.it)

Publications

The full list of publications is available in the pdf file of the CV.

Pubblicazioni più significative per ambito di ricerca

Statistica / statistica applicata
Arpino B., and Cannas, M. (2016) Propensity score matching with clustered data. An application to the estimation of the impact of caesarean section on the Apgar score, Statistics in Medicine, 35(12), 2074–2091.

Arpino B., De Cao E. and Peracchi F. (2014) Using panel data for partial identification of human immunodeficiency virus prevalence when infection status is missing not at random, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – A, 177(3), 587–606.

Arpino B., Le Moglie, M., and Mencarini, L. (2022) What Tears Couples Apart: An Analysis of Union Dissolution in Germany with Machine Learning, Demography., 59 (1): 161–186.

Cannas M. and Arpino B. (2019) Comparison of machine learning algorithms and covariate balance measures in propensity score matching and weighting. Biometrical Journal, 61(4), 1049-1072.

Silan M., Boccuzzo G. and Arpino B. (2021) Matching on poset-based Average Rank for Multiple Treatments (MARMoT) to compare many unbalanced groups. Statistics in Medicine, 40(28), 6443-6458.

Famiglia, relazioni intergenerazionali
Arpino, B. and Bordone, V. (2014) Does Grandparenting Pay Off? The Effect of Childcare on Grandparents´ Cognitive Functioning, Journal of Marriage and Family, 76, 337–351.

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., & Di Gessa, G. (2023). COVID-19 precautionary behaviors and vaccine acceptance among older individuals: The role of close kin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 120 (13) e2214382120.

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., and Pasqualini, M. (2020). No clear association emerges between intergenerational relationships and COVID-19 fatality rates from macro-level analyses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(32), 19116-19121.

Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., and Bordone, V. (2021) Physically distant but socially close? Changes in non-physical intergenerational contacts at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among older people in France, Italy and Spain. European Journal of Ageing, 18, 185–194.

Bordone V., Arpino B., and Aassve A. (2017) Patterns of grandparental childcare across Europe: the role of the policy context and working mothers’ need, Ageing & Society, 37(4), 845-873.

Benessere degli anziani, invecchiamento attivo
Arpino B. and Gómez-León, M. (2020) Consequences on depression of combining grandparental childcare with other caregiving roles. Aging & Mental Health, 24(8), 1263-1270.

Arpino B. and Solé-Auró A. (2019) Education inequalities in health among older European men and women: the role of active aging. Journal of Aging and Health, 31(1), 185-208.

Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., Bordone, V., and Solé-Auró, A. (2021) Older people’s non-physical contacts and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Gerontologist, 61(2), 176–186.

Quashie N., Arpino B., Antczak R. and Mair C. (2021) Childlessness and Health among Older Adults: Variation across 5 Outcomes and 20 Countries. The Journal of Gerontology: Series B, 76(2), 348–359.

Altri lavori nell’ambito delle scienze sociali
Arpino B., Esping-Andersen, G. and Pessin, L. (2015) How do Changes in Gender Role Attitudes towards Female Employment influence Fertility? A Macro-Level Analysis, European Sociological Review, 31 (3), 370-382.

Arpino B. and Obydenkova A. (2020) Democracy and Political Trust Before and After the Start of the Great Recession. Social Indicators

Thesis proposals

I am available to supervise theses that develop or apply statistical methods preferably in the following areas.

Methodological areas:
- Causal inference
- Multilevel models and longitudinal models
- Machine learning

Substantive areas:
- Family and intergenerational relationships
- Aging of the population
- Health and well-being of the elderly
- Active ageing
- Fertility, divorces
- Immigration, socio-economic conditions and well-being of immigrants
- Inequalities and gender roles
- Values, preferences, electoral behavior