News & Events
01/09/2020
Understanding Intergenerational Contacts
A project by Nicoletta Balbo, Francesco Billari and Alessia Melegaro helps understand how to limit the opportunities for contagion and protect weak subjects
01/09/2020
Covid19: One Year to Redefine Policy Priorities
Work has begun for the Commission set up by the WHO regional office for Europe chaired by Mario Monti, President of Bocconi. Aleksandra Torbica, Director of CERGAS, is special Advisor.
27/07/2020
The Importance of a Strong National Health Service
Eduardo Missoni and a team of Alumni studied how health systems dealt with the Covid emergency
24/07/2020
Fertility is likely to decline in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic
A new study from Bocconi University leverages historical social, economic and demographic evidence from natural events and pandemics, as well as the latest techniques in demographic science, to draw the conclusion that postCovid fertility will plausibly decline because of economic uncertainty and increased childcare burdens
17/07/2020
Working from Home Is for the Most Skilled
A study by Thomas Le Barbanchon found that information, financial activities, and professional and business services, along with agriculture, are the industries with the most hours worked at home
17/07/2020
Family Firms Confirmed to Be More Resilient
During the pandemic, family business shares had a performance eight percentage points higher, according to a study by Amore, Quarato and Pelucco
17/07/2020
COVID: The Multifaceted Truth in the Case of Lombardy
A strand of research by Alessia Melegaro aims to reconstruct the early stages of the epidemic and the reasons why it hit the Region so hard
17/07/2020
Women and the Children of the Less Educated Are Bearing the Brunt of the COVID Crisis
Research by Paola Profeta finds that the lockdown and the social distancing measures translated into an additional burden for women in terms of housework. Only the most educated families devote time to their children's homework in times of homeschooling
14/07/2020
COVID 19: Women Are Willing to Respect the Rules and to Pay More for Testing
A Bocconi and UCL survey shows that Italian women, with a higher perception of risk, are willing to pay more for serological tests and swabs and are more inclined to comply with safety measures
13/07/2020
Less than Half the Jobs Are Safe in Case of Outbreak
Tito Boeri and colleagues calculated the share of people that could safely work in absence of personal protection equipment