The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (1992-1994), by Don Rosa
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I study what happens when family life meets money — and it gets complicated quickly. Think of parents helping finance a first home, couples negotiating how to pool their resources, or how a marriage (or a divorce) reshapes both your bank account and your health. I approach these questions from the perspective of sociology as a population science, that is finding order in chaos.
I use longitudinal survey data, following individuals and families over time. Depending on the question, I draw on methods such as sequence analysis or panel analysis, often within a dyadic framework to better capture intrafamilial relationships.
Wealth and health across demographic trajectories are my core interest, though I also keep an eye on inequalities in housework, housing, deprivation, and labour markets.
Wealth inequality and family dynamics:. wealth accumulation, within-couple wealth inequality, intergenerational transmission of homeownership, and inheritance.
Ongoing work on this topic:
Parental education and offspring wealth attainment across Europe (w/ Filippo Gioachin) - status: preprint
Demographic behaviours and wealth accumulation across countries and cohorts (w/ Stefani Scherer) - status: under review
Consequences of within-couple age heterogamy on wealth accumulation (w/ Theresa Nutz) - status: under review
Homeownership and housework inequality (w/ Anna Zamberlan and Agnieszka Althaber) - status: conceptualization
Inheritance and mental health - status: conceptualization
Published work on this topic:
Buffer function of wealth during COVID-19 (w/ Filippo Gioachin and Anna Zamberlan) - Social Inclusion (2023)
Employment trajectories and within-couple wealth inequality (w/ Theresa Nutz) - Journal of Marriage and Family (2022)
Intergenerational transfers and homeownership (w/ Giorgio Cutuli) - Advances in Life Course Research (2021)
Life courses and later health outcomes: protective role of marriage, use of biomarkers in social stratification, and partner's spillover effects on health.
Ongoing work on this topic:
Marital biographies and health later on: which aspects really matter? (w/ Raffaele Grotti and Stefani Scherer) - status: drafting
Partner's work-family trajectories and biological markers of health (w/ Raffaele Grotti and Stefani Scherer) - status: drafting
The wealth-health gradient over the life course (w/ Dina Maskileyson, Raffaele Grotti, and Stefani Scherer) - status: draft available upon request
Other works on social inequality: housework, housing inequality, material deprivation, and labour market.
Some published work on this topic:
The effect of citizenship on labour market integration of migrants in Italy (w/ Gioachin, Zamberlan, Grotti, Scherer, Barbieri, Meli) - International Migration (2025)
Impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in housework and childcare (w/ Anna Zamberlan and Filippo Gioachin) - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2021)
Winner of Best Paper Award 2023 in RSSM
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