Projects
Socio-demographic determinants of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use among older people in Italy (ICTAGE)
Italian Ministry of Research (PRIN 2022). Duration: 2 years; PI: Bruno Arpino; Co-PIs: Marco Albertini, Cecilia Tomassini.
How to reduce the digital divide among older people: an approach based on offline social networks
Funding for a PhD scholarship, Italian Ministry of Research, FSE REACT-EU; 2022-2024.
Care, Retirement & Wellbeing of Older People Across Different Welfare Regimes (CREW). Link.
CREW is an interdisciplinary and cross-national project carried out by a consortium of six teams from five countries: University Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Spain; Coordinator; PI: Bruno Arpino), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI, Netherlands; PI: Anne Gauthier), Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium; PI: Ester Rizzi), University of Florence (Italy; PI: Gustavo De Santis), University of Padua (Italy; PI: Maria Letizia Tanturri), University of Western Ontario (Canada; PI: Rachel Margolis).
Its goal is to examine the interrelationships between care, work, health and wellbeing at older ages.
CREW is a project financed through the Joint Programming Initiative, More Years Better Lives 2017-2020).
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Grandparenting and successful ageing - GRANSAGE (El cuidado de los nietos y el envejecimiento exitoso). Proyectos Europa Excelencia 2015 starting grants. Funding: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO2015-62707-ERC). PI: Bruno Arpino
Description:
Against the background of population ageing, researchers and policymakers are increasingly interested in the factors that can help people to age successfully. This project aims to bring the role of grandparenting in the discussion on successful ageing by analysing the consequences of this important family role for older people. The determinants of grandparenting and its effects on other generations have been widely studied. However, the effects of grandparenting on grandparents’ health remain under-investigated, and this project aims to fill this gap. More specifically, the project’s goals are:
1. To investigate the effects of grandchild care by analysing also dimensions such as cognitive functioning and social engagement that have been overlooked in past studies.
2. To improve understanding of the causal mechanisms linking grandparenting to health outcomes. This implies studying the heterogeneity of the effects of grandchild care and the potentially mediating and moderator factors, such as the combination of multiple roles.
3. To study how the effects of grandparenting vary across different normative and structural contexts.
The project relies upon rich secondary longitudinal data from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). The project is inter-disciplinary and will draw on theoretical insights from sociology, gerontology, demography and economics.
Convenio de Colaboración entre RECSM y la fundación Amics de la Gent Gran. UPF PI: Bruno Arpino
La colaboración en particular tendrá los siguientes objetivos específicos:
- Estudiar en qué medida las personas con alto riesgo de aislamiento participan en las actividades organizadas por la fundación, los factores que influyen en la participación y los que podrían aumentarla.
- Analizar el efecto de intervenciones diseñadas para aumentar el nivel de actividad de las personas mayores con riesgo de aislamiento: Se pretende evaluar si este tipo de intervención puede ser eficaz en:
- estimular un mayor nivel de actividad de las personas mayores aisladas;
- mejorar medidas de salud y bienestar físico y mental de las personas mayores.
Subjective Well Being and Fertility (SWELL-FER). ERC starting grants, The European Research Council (No.: 313617). PI: Letizia Mencarini. Link.
Mixture and latent variable models for causal inference and analysis of socio-economic data. Research Project "Futuro in Ricerca 2012" funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and Higher Education. PI: Francesco Bartolucci. Link.
Migration Systems in a Comparative Perspective: Mexico-US and Africa (Sistemas migratorios en perspectiva comparada: Mexico-EEUU y Africa). Funded by the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation, 2012-2015. PI: Pau Baizan-Muñoz.