She is: Full Professor of Demography at Bocconi University; Fellow at the DONDENA Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy and COVID Crisis Lab at Bocconi University, and at the Center for Demography and Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison; an expert of Population Europe, among the Leading Women Scientists of AcademiaNet, and Associate Editor for European Sociological Review; in the editorial board of Neodemos, an online Italian blog on population, society and politics and of the international demographic magazine N-IUSSP.
Her research interests focus on family demography (life–course analysis, fertility, transition to adulthood, family formation and disruption) and its links with well-being, time use, gender diversity and migration in a policy and welfare state perspective.
She is author of numerous papers published in international scientific journals and of books in Italian about “women, job market and fertility” and “demographic trap” in Italy for the general public.
B. Arpino, M. Le Moglie, L. Mencarini (2021), What Tears Couples Apart: An Analysis of Union Dissolution in Germany with Machine Learning, Demography, forthcoming.
A. Gatta, F. Mattioli, L. Mencarini, D. Vignoli (2021), Employment uncertainty and fertility intentions: Stability or resilience?, Population Studies, forthcoming.
A. Aassve, N. Cavalli, L. Mencarini, S. Plach, M. Livi Bacci (2020), The COVID-19 pandemic and human fertility: Science, 369(6502), DOI: 10.1126/science.abc9520, open access on-line.
A. Aassve, M. Le Moglie, L. Mencarini (2020), “Trust and Fertility in Uncertain Times”, Population Studies, 75:1, 19-36.
T. Autorino, F. Mattioli, L. Mencarini (2020), “The Impact of Gynecologists’ Conscientious Objection on Abortion Access”, in Social Science Research. Vol.87, paper 102403, open access on-line.