NICOLETTA BALBO

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. I was an AXA Post-doctoral Fellow at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy (Bocconi University) in 2013-2016. I received a PhD in Sociology from the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), based at the University of Groningen, in 2012.

I am a research fellow at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy (Bocconi University).

Between 2013 and 2016 I carried out my first project as PI (funded by AXA Research Fund). Since 2016, I have been an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, participating as PI or team member in different international research projects, and with responsibilities in two different scientific associations (European Association for Population Studies and Italian Association for Population Studies).

My research interests lie in the areas of sociology of the family, fertility and life course research, social capital and networks. Moreover I have been working at the intersection between health and social sciences focusing on adolescents’ health behaviors, children disability and subjective well-being.