Valeria Bordone - PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Cabaraban, M.K., Bordone, V., Weber, D. (2025). Resource or crisis? Cognitive functioning after widowhood and why paid work status matters. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B; gbaf234. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaf234

Jessee, L., Bordone, V., Hank, K. (2025). Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach. Social Science Research 125: 103094. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103094

Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2025). Trajectories of loneliness in later life - Evidence from a 10-year English panel study. Social Science & Medicine 382: 117703. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117703

Zanasi, F., Bordone, V. (2025). The effect of grandparental involvement on grandchildren's school grades: Heterogeneity by the extended family characteristics. Social Science Research 125: 103095. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103095

Zanasi, F., Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Hank, K. (2023). The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: A research update. European Journal of Ageing 125: 103095. doi: 10.1007/s10433-023-00785-8

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Di Gessa, G. (2023). COVID-19 precautionary behaviors and vaccine acceptance among older individuals: The role of close kin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 120(13): e2214382120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2214382120

Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2023). Changes in grandparental childcare during the pandemic and mental health: Evidence from England. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(2): 319-329. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac104

Bordone, V., Arpino B. (2022). Is there a rejuvenating effect of (grand)childcare? A longitudinal study on German data. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77(2): 446–455. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab021

Ates, M., Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2022). Does grandparental childcare provision affect number, satisfaction and with whom leisure activities are done? Ageing & Society 42(10): 2370-2392 doi: 10.1017/S0144686X2100009X

Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2022). The role of fertility in the demography of grandparenthood: Evidence from Italy. Journal of Population Ageing 15(2): 453-471. doi.org/10.1007/s12062-020-09310-6

Gil-Clavel, S., Zagheni, E., Bordone, V. (2022). Close social networks among older adults: The online and offline perspectives. Population Research and Policy Review 41: 1111–1135. doi.org/10.1007/s11113-021-09682-3

Zanasi, F., Arpino, B., Pirani, E., Bordone V. (2022). Work histories and provision of grandparental childcare among Italian older women. Genus 78(11). doi: 10.1186/s41118-022-00158-6

Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., Bordone, V. (2021). Physically distant but socially close? Changes in non-physical intergenerational contacts at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among older people in France, Italy and Spain. European Journal of Ageing 18: 185-194. doi: 10.1007/s10433-021-00621-x

Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., Bordone, V., Solé-Auró, A. (2021). Older people's non-physical contacts and depression during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Gerontologist 61(2): 176-186. doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa144

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Pasqualini, M. (2020). No clear association emerges between intergenerational relationships and COVID-19 fatality rates from macro-level analyses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 117(32): 19116-19121. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008581117

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Pasqualini, M. (2020). REPLY TO DOWD ET AL. Dangerous to overemphasize the importance of specific COVID-19 risk factors based on (unadjusted) macro-level analyses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 117(42): 25977-25978. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017464117

Bordone, V., Arpino, B., Rosina, A. (2020). Forever young? An analysis of the factors influencing perceptions of ageing. Ageing & Society 40(8): 1669-1693. doi: 10.1017/s0144686x19000084

Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2020). Becoming a grandparent and its effect on well-being: the role of order of transitions, time, and gender. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 75(10): 2250-2262. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbz135

Wiß, T., Schmidthuber, L., Bordone, V. (2020). Quality of working conditions, sector of employment and age at retirement. Management Revue – Socio-Economic Studies 31(2): 145-166. doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2020-2-145

Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2019). Grandparenthood, grandchild care and depression among older people in 18 countries. Zeitschrift für Familienforschung | Journal of Family Research 31(2): 216–239. doi.org/10.3224/zff.v31i2.06

Bordone, V., Evandrou, M., Vlachantoni, A. (2018). Ethnicity and grandparental childcare in the UK. Ageing & Society 40(4): 713-734. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X18001265

De Valk, H. A. G., Bordone, V. (2018). Co-residence of adult children with their parents: differences by migration background explored and explained. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(10): 1790–1812. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1485207

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Scherbov, S. (2018). Smoking, education and the ability to predict own survival probabilities. Advances in Life Course Research 37: 23-30. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2018.06.001

Abel, G. J., Muttarak, R., Bordone, V., Zagheni, E. (2018). Bowling together: Scientific collaboration networks of demographers at European Population Conferences. European Journal of Population 35(3): 543-562. doi: 10.1007/s10680-018-9493-1

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Balbo, N. (2018). Grandparenting, education and subjective well-being of older Europeans. European Journal of Ageing 15(3): 251-263. doi: 10.1007/s10433-018-0467-2

Bordone, V., Arpino, B., Aassve, A. (2017). Patterns of grandparental child care across Europe: the role of the policy context and working mothers’ need. Ageing & Society 37(4): 845-873. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X1600009X

Arpino, B., Bordone, V. (2017). Regular provision of grandchild care and participation in social activities. Review of Economics of the Household 15(1): 135-174. doi: 10.1007/s11150-016-9322-4

Sanderson, W. C., Scherbov, S., Weber, D., Bordone, V. (2016). Combined measures of upper and lower body strength and subgroup differences in subsequent survival among the older population of England. Journal of Aging and Health 28(7): 1178-93. doi: 10.1177/0898264316656515

Testa, M. R., Bordone, V., Osiewalska, B., Skirbekk, V. (2016). Are daughter’s childbearing intentions related to their mother’s SES? Demographic Research 35(21): 581-616. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2016.35.21

Kumar, A., Bordone, V., Muttarak, R. (2016). Like mother(-in-law) like daughter? Influence of the older generation’s fertility behaviours on women’s desired family size in Bihar, India. European Journal of Population 32(5): 629-660. doi: 10.1007/s10680-016-9379-z

Bordone, V., de Valk, H. A. G. (2016). Intergenerational support among migrant families in Europe. European Journal of Ageing 13(3): 259-270. doi: 10.1007/s10433-016-0363-6

Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2016). Do grandchildren influence how old you feel? Journal of Aging and Health 28(6): 1055-1072. doi: 10.1177/0898264315618920

Bordone, V., Scherbov, S., Steiber, N. (2015). Smarter every day: The deceleration of population ageing in terms of cognition. Intelligence 52: 90–96. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2015.07.005

Bordone, V. (2015). Est modus in rebus: a longitudinal study of intergenerational solidarity and Locus of Control. Ageing & Society 35(6): 1242-1277. doi: 10.1017/s0144686x14000178

Skirbekk, V., Bordone, V., Weber, D. (2014). A cross-country comparison of math achievement at teen age and cognitive performance 40 years later. Demographic Research 31(4): 105-118. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.4

Arpino, B., Bordone, V. (2014). Does grandparenting pay off? The effect of childcare on grandparents’ cognitive functioning. Journal of Marriage and Family 76(2): 337-351. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12096

Bordone, V., Rosina, A. (2013). The role of education in the reconciliation between female occupation and family responsibilities at mid-life: the Italian case. Journal of Population Research 30(1): 39-65. doi: 10.1007/s12546-012-9091-8

Bordone, V., Weber, D. (2012). Number of children and cognitive abilities in later life. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 10: 95-126. doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2012s95

Bordone, V. (2009). Contact and proximity of older people to their adult children: a comparison between Italy and Sweden. Population, Space and Place 15(4): 359-380. doi: 10.1002/psp.559

Bordone, V., Billari, F. C., Dalla Zuanna, G. (2009). The Italian Labour Force Survey to estimate fertility. Statistical Methods and Applications 18(3): 445-451. doi: 10.1007/s10260-008-0102-z.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Bordone, V., Di Gessa, G., Hank, K. (2023). Family relations and health inequalities: Grandparents and grandchildren. In R. Hoffmann (ed.) Research Handbook on Health Inequalities Across the Life Course. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Pp. 187-201. ISBN 9781800888159

Bordone, V., Hank, K., Arpino, B., Tomassini, C. (2023). Childcare by grandparents in the context of welfare state policies. In M. Daly et al. (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy. A Life-Course Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 979-997. ISBN 9780197518151

Bordone, V., Gallistl, V., Kolland, F. (2020). Alter und Altern [Age and ageing]. In E. Flicker, and M. Parzer (Hrsg.) Forschungs- und Anwendungsfelder der Soziologie [Research and Application Fields in Sociology] (3. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage). Wien: Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandels AG. Pp. 17-30. ISBN 978-3-7089-2026-9

Bordone, V., de Valk, H. A. G. (2018). Il supporto intergenerazionale tra le famiglie di origine immigrata in Europa [Intergenerational support among migrant families in Europe]. In G. Gasperoni, M. Albertini, and D. Mantovani (Eds) Fra Genitori e Figli. Immigrazione, Rapporti Intergenerazionali e Famiglie nell'Europa Contemporanea [Between Parents and Children. Immigration, Intergenerational Relations and Families in Today’s Europe]: Chapter 5. Bologna: Il Mulino. Pp. 85-104. ISBN 9788815279422

Bordone, V., Rosina, A. (2018). Percezioni di invecchiamento e stili di vita [Perceived age and life style]. In L. Cappellari, C. Lucifora, and A. Rosina (Eds) Invecchiamento Attivo, Mercato del Lavoro e Benessere [Active Ageing, Labour Market and Well-Being]: Chapter 1. Bologna: Il Mulino. Pp. 27-42. ISBN 9788815279217

Arpino, B., Bordone, V. (2018). Active Ageing typologies: A latent class analysis of the older Europeans. In A. Zaidi, S. Harper, K. Howse, G. Lamura, and J. Perek-Białas (Eds) Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies: Active Ageing Index and its Potential. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 295-311. ISBN 978-981-10-6017-5

Bordone, V. (2015). Intergenerational solidarity. In J. D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 12. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 402–408. ISBN 978-0-08-043076-8

Arpino, B., Bordone, V. (2015). Il segreto per non perdere la testa? Fare la nonna [The secret not to lose your head? Do grandparenting]. In S. Salvini (Ed), Longevità, Vecchiaia, Salute [Longevity, Ageing, Health]. Ebook. Associazione Neodemos. Pp. 124-127. ISBN 978-88-941008-8-4

Bordone, V. (2012). Social norms and intergenerational relationships. In G. De Santis (Ed), The Family, the Market or the State? Intergenerational Support under Pressure in Ageing Societies. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. Pp. 159-178. ISBN 978-94-007-4339-7

Rivellini, G., Bordone, V., Ortensi, L. E. (2012). I fenomeni demografici nel corso di vita familiare [Demographic events over the life course]. In P. Donati, La Famiglia in Italia [The Family in Italy], Vol. I. Pisa: Carocci Editore. Pp. 47-90. ISBN 9788843063062

Bordone, V. (2010). Intergenerational Relationships in Ageing Societies: An analysis of Solidarity Between Elderly Parents and Adult Children. University of Mannheim.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., Di Gessa, G. (2022). Close kin influence COVID-19 precautionary behaviors and vaccine acceptance of older individuals. SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/b3rn2

Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2022). Grandparental childcare during the pandemic and effects on mental health: Evidence from England. medRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.02.09.22270740

Zanasi, F., Arpino, B., Pirani, E., Bordone, V. (2021). Work histories and provision of grandparental childcare among Italian older women. SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/pdxfr

Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., Bordone, V., Solé-Auró, A. (2020). Indirect consequences of COVID-19 on people’s lives. Findings from an on-line survey in France, Italy and Spain. SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/4sfv9

Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2018). Grandparenthood and female employment. In A. H. Gauthier, I. E. Kotowska, and D. Vono de Vilhena (Eds) Gender (In)Equality over the Life Course. Discussion Paper No. 10, Berlin: Max Planck Society/Population Europe. Pp. 26-30.

Rosina, A., Bordone, V. (2017). Se usi internet non ti senti anziano [If you use the Internet, you do not feel old], short article on osservatoriosenior.it.

Bordone, V. (2017). Do smokers know what they are doing to their life expectancy? Nexus, the Research Blog of IIASA.

Bordone, V., Arpino, B., Rosina, A. (2016). Forever young? Prevalence and correlates of feeling old. CPC Briefing Paper 37, ESRC Centre for Population Change, UK.

De Valk, H. A. G., Bordone, V. (2016). When in Rome. Policy Insights. Population Europe.

Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2016). How old do you feel? It depends on whether you have grandchildren / Vous vous sentez vieux? Mais avez-vous des petits-enfants? N-IUSSP, IUSSP news magazine.

Bordone, V., Arpino, B., Rosina, A. (2016). What makes you feeling old? An analysis of the factors influencing perceptions of ageing. Proceedings of the 48th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, SIS2016 Proceedings. ISBN: 9788861970618.

Bordone, V. (2015). Wussten Sie, dass .... die Wahrscheinlichkeit, von den Eltern finanziell unterstützt zu werden, mit dem eigenen Bildungsniveau steigt? [Did you know that … the likelihood to receive financial support from parents rises with the level of education?], short article on “beziehungsweise”, University of Vienna.

Bordone, V. (2014). Chi ben comincia… non sempre è a metà dell’opera [Well begun is… not always half done], short article on www.neodemos.it. ISSN: 2421-3209.

Bordone, V., Arpino, B. (2014). Do grandparents benefit from grandparenting?, short article on www.openpop.org.

Bordone, V. (2014). Intergenerational financial transfers. In Buber-Ennser, I., Neuwirth, N. and Testa, M. R. (Eds.) Families in Austria 2009–2013, Vienna: AV-Astoria.

Bordone, V. (2013). Intergenerationale finanzielle Transfers [Intergenerational financial transfers]. In Buber-Ennser, I., Neuwirth, N. and Testa, M. R. (Eds.) Familienentwicklung in Österreich 2009–2013 [First Results of the Second Wave of the Austrian GGS]. http://www.ggp-austria.at/

Arpino, B., Bordone, V. (2012). Il segreto per non perdere la testa? Fare la nonna! [The secret to keep your head? Do grandparenting!], short article on neodemos.it. ISSN: 2421-3209.

Rivellini, G., Bordone, V. (2012). Politiche famigliari: Esempi a cui guardare [Family policies: Examples to look at]. Cronache e opinioni. Centro italiano femminile (CIF).

Bordone, V. (2009). Così vicini, così lontani [So close, so far], short article on neodemos.it.

Bordone, V., Rosina, A. (2009). Sandwich generation and female occupation in an ageing society: the case of Italy. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth IUSSP International Population Conference, Marrakesh, Morocco, 27 September – 2 October 2009.

Bordone, V. (2008). Harmonising SHARE (wave 1, 2004) and ELSA (wave 2, 2004) – REPORT available on SHARE and ELSA websites.