Leo Azzollini

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the University of Oxford (2020 - ), jointly between the ERC Synergy Project "Distributional National Accounts" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (Department of Social Policy) and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (Department of Sociology), as well as a Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow of Nuffield College. 

I have a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Bocconi University (2021), with a thesis on “Social Stratification, Life Course, and Political Inequality” (Chair: F.C. Billari; Committee: C. De Vries, G. Esping-Andersen, R. Macmillan). Previously, I completed a M.Sc. in Political Economy of Europe at the London School of Economics (2015) and a B.Sc. in International Economics at Bocconi University (2014).

My research interests are at the intersection of Social Stratification, Demography, and Democracy, and more specifically on the interplay between macro-level social dynamics (e.g., unemployment, inequality), individual characteristics (e.g., unemployment experiences, age, social class), and socio-political action, including political participation, socio-political trust, and attitudes towards democracy.

To pursue these research interests, I combine perspectives from Economic Sociology and the Life Course Approach to study outcomes in General and Political Sociology.

I rely on quantitative methods, with a focus on exploring the role of context and mechanisms through multilevel models, panel data analysis, fixed effects models, and counterfactuals approaches.

My work has appeared in leading journals such as the European Sociological Review, Social Science Research, featured by the World Bank and in the European Social Survey Select Findings, and has received media attention in outlets including the BBC and RTÉ Ireland.

leo.azzollini@spi.ox.ac.uk - University of Oxford

Institute for New Economic Thinking - Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science - Department of Sociology

Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow - Nuffield College