Peer Reviewed Publications
Bonomi Bezzo, F., Silva, L. 2026. Infrastructural access and racial inequalities as determinants of income dynamics in South Africa. Social Science Research.
Silva L., Tropf F., Wolfram T. 2025. Mind the gap: The interplay between genes, neighbourhood context and educational outcomes. European Sociological Review
Silva, L. 2025. Neighbourhood effects across generations and the reproduction of inequality. British Journal of Sociology
Silva, L. 2024. Gendered contexts? The effect of neighbourhood socio-economic deprivation on girls’ and boys’ cognitive and non-cognitive development. Sociology Compass.
Silva, L., Bonomi Bezzo, F., Manfredini, F., Giavarini, V., Di Rosa, C. 2024. Back to rural areas? How the Covid-19 pandemic changed urban to rural dynamics in Italy. European Urban and Regional Studies.
Bonomi Bezzo, F., Silva, L., Laurence, J., & Schmid, K. (2023). Does personality matter? Exploring its moderating role on the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic outgroup-size and preferences for Brexit. European Societies, 1-34.
Silva, L., Bonomi Bezzo, F., Laurence, J., Schmid, K. 2023. Effects of absolute levels of neighbourhood ethnic diversity vs. changes in neighbourhood diversity on prejudice: moderation by individual differences in personality. Social Science Research.
Silva, L. 2023. A utopian approach to social transformation: the role of urban social movements' fragmentation in Barcelona. Partecipazione e Conflitto.
Silva, L., Bonomi Bezzo, F., and Van Ham, M. 2023. Covid-19 restrictions: an opportunity to highlight the effect of neighbourhood deprivation on individuals’ health-related behaviours. Social Science and Medicine.
Bonomi Bezzo, F., Silva, L., and Van Ham, M. 2021. The combined effect of Covid-19 and neighbourhood deprivation on two dimensions of subjective well-being: Empirical evidence from England. PloS one, 16(7)
Book Chapters
The joint effect of deprivation during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: How did contextual and individual experiences affect health-related behaviours? (with Alex Sheridan and Franco Bonomi Bezzo) - In Permacrisis and the Policy Continuum in the UK (pp. 39-54). Routledge.
Work in progress
Living Powerless. The effect of intense load shedding on individuals and communities in the suburbs of Cape Town (R&R, with Franco Bonomi Bezzo)
Organic vs. mechanic solidarity? Segregation patterns across occupation and ethnic background over 100 years in Dudelange (with Antoine Paccoud, Franco Bonomi Bezzo and Sonia Schifano)
Then and Now: How neighbourhood deprivation in youth influences attitudes towards inequality (Under Review, with Franco Bonomi Bezzo and Anne-Marie Jeannet)
The city as experienced: beyond average poverty exposure to spatial contrast in mobility trajectories (with Antonio Desiderio, Nandini Iyer, Franco Bonomi Bezzo and Riccardo Di Clemente)
Musical tastes along class, ethnic and neighbourhood lines: evidence from France (with Haley McAvay and Philippe Coulangeon)
Social class schemes and class consciousness, a Wright-based approach: comparative project across France, Netherlands and US (with Agata Troost, Jaap Nieuwenhuis and Jonathan Mijs)
Climate extremes and socio-political attitudes (with Giacomo Melli, Leo Azzollini and Franco Bonomi Bezzo)