Daniela Del Boca
Address
Department of Economics
University of Turin, Via Lungodora 100 Torino 10124
dani.delboca at unito.it
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Via Real Collegio 30 Moncalieri
Torino 10024
Education
Ph D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1988, Thesis Title: “Labor Market Adjustment under Tradeunionism'' Committee (Mark Gertler, Nobu. Kyotaki, Craig Olson).
Essex Summer School Data Analysis and Econometrics
Laurea, Economics, Honours, University of Turin
Academic Positions
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Turin
Director CHILD (Centre for Household Income, Labour, and Demographics)
Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Director of Doctoral Program in Economics Vilfredo Pareto, University of Turin 2010Co- Editor Labour (Review of Labour Economics)
Associate Editor, Review of Economics of the Household (REHO)
Fellowships and Honours
Board of Directors, Member of the General Council, Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino 2012Advisory Board, Transatlantic Forum for Inclusive Early Years, King Baudoin Foundation 2012Member of the Human Capital Group Becker Friedman Institute University of Chicago 2012Board of Directors ,Collegio Carlo Alberto 2011-2014
Order of the Merit (Commander) from the President of Italian Republic (for Research on Family
Policies) 2007
Research Fellow, IZA (Bonn) 2000Research Scientist IHDSC (Institute for Human Development and Social Change) NYU 2005Council Member ESPE (European Society Population Economists) 2007-2011
Fellow, Italian Academy at Columbia University Fall 2003
Visiting Professor Economics Johns Hopkins Fall 2004
Fellow, Center for European Studies CES (NYU) Fall 2001
President ESPE (European Society Population Economists) 2000
ERC (European Research Council) Proposal Evaluation Committee 2010Israeli Science Foundation Proposal Evaluation 2011
Other Academic Positions
Scientific Council, Centro Dondena, Bocconi University
Scientific Committee Save the Children Italia “Educational Poverty” Program 2014Advisory Board Ministry of the Family 2007
Committee for the Evaluation of Balancing Work and the Family Ministry of Labor 2014
Member of ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research) 2011-2013
Member of the Selection Committee: "B.Stringher"- Banca d’Italia Scholarships Program 2010Grants and Awards
NSF "Actors in Child development Process" Co-I (PI Chris Flinn) 2014-2016
FP7-SSH-2012 Families and Societies. WP Leader on “Child Care Arrangements and Child outcomes”. 2013-2017
PRIN (Ministry of University) “Quality and Quantity of Children” Co-Investigator (PI Francesco Billari, Bocconi)
2011-2013
Expert Social Situation Monitor 2013-2017 DG EMPL European CWPR (Vienna) and ISER (Essex) 2013-2016
Jacobs Foundation Award “Evaluating the Impact of the Infant Toddler Centers and Preschools on Children: The Reggio
Approach” (Principal Investigator James Heckman Chicago) 2011-2013
Carlo Alberto Award “Parental Investments and Children Outcomes” (Principal Investigator) 2010-2013
IHDSC (New York University) Award “Behavioural and Cognitive Children Outcomes” (Co-Investigator) (PI Matt
Wiswall) New York University) 2010-2011
EC Project "Child Poverty in Italy " DG Research Child Poverty in the European Union 2009-2010
CHILD Carlo Alberto “Fertility and Labor Market Participation” 2006-2009
PRIN “The scientific evaluation of income support policies” (PI Tito Boeri (Bocconi)) 2007-2009
EC Project 6th Frame Work Programme “Wages in Europe: The socio-economic determinants of citizens' work life
using data from the continuous web-based European Wage Indicator Survey”. (Italian Coordinator) 2004-2007
EC Project “ Women in Science and Technology” European Commission Research 2005-2006
MURST (Ministry of University) “Models of Family Economics and Social Policy” 2003-2005
EC Project, Award “The Rationale of Motherhood Choices “(Italian Coordinator), (joint with ULB,
Amsterdam, Paris I) 2001-2005
MURST (Ministry of Italian University) “Income Inequality Between and Within Families. An Analysis of the
Historical Archive of the Bank of Italy” 2001-2002
CNR (National Research Council) “Economics of the Family and Family Policies” (Coordinator), 2000-2001
Compagnia San Paolo Grant “Households Income Distribution and Income Inequality”(Project Director), 20002002
CNR “Household Taxation: Analysis and Policies” (Project Director), 2000-2001
Compagnia San Paolo “Trends in Male and Female Employment” (Project Director), 1998-2001
IRP (Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin) (with C. Flinn) “The Effect of Percentage
and Fixed Income Awards on Child Support Compliance “1994-1995
NIH (National Institute of Health Award) ( C. Flinn PI), “Child Support models and Interaction between divorced
parents,”1993-1996
Invited Seminars and Lectures 2009- 2014
Plenary Speaker Gender Quotas Convegno Regione April 2014
Plenary Speaker National Conference Investire nell Infanzia Bari March 2014
Workshop Welfare State and Policy Interventions Columbia University Paris June 2014
Workshop Women in Top Position and Gender Quota Turin April 2014
Workshop Centro Dondena Bocconi University PRIN 20-21 February 2014
Invited Lecture Child Care, Family Characteristics and Child Outcomes, Brussels EC Workshop, Dec 4, 2013
Invited Lecture Economic Approach to Child Development, British Academy IFS London May 8, 2013
Conference Diritto di Asilo Collegio Carlo Alberto and Compagnia San Paolo Turin 23 Aprile 2013
Invited Lecture, Womenomics, CNEL Rome, December 4, 2012
Invited Lecture Segnavie, Cariparo Foundation Padova September 27, 2012
Conference Family Inequality, Bank of Italy Workshop, Rome June 26, 2012.
Conference Unexplored Dimensions of discrimination, Fondazione De Benedetti, Trani June 8, 2012.
Dondena CHILD Bank of Italy, Quantity and Quality of Children, Bocconi University,April 1-2, 2012
Conference Gender Economics, Bank of Italy, Rome, March 7, 2012
Workshop CHILD-RECENT Family education and Social Capital University of Modena March 5, 2012
Seminar IHDSC (NYU) The Impacts of Child care on Mothers and Children in Italy January 30, 2012
Conference in honour of Gary Becker Paris School INED October 2011
ICREA-MOVE Conference on Family Economics March 2011
ASSA2011 Household choices and children outcomes Denver January 7,2011
Washington University Living arrangement in Europe October 11, 2010
Conference in Honour Etta Chiuri University of Bari 1-3 July 2010
Workshop Jacobs Foundation-Reggio Children, Reggio Emilia June 14, 2010
EC Conference Children Poverty in EU, Bruxelles November 11, 2009
Conference The Labor market and the Household AIEL LABOR CHILD November 6,2009
Invited Plenary Lecture Columbia University-Italian Studies Families on their Own: the case of Italy
September 11, 2009
Conference Gender and Institutions May 20, 2009 Bocconi University
Workshop PRIN Social Minima January 11, 2009 Bocconi University
Centro Dondena, Bocconi University May 25 2009
Center for Advanced Social Science Research, New York University, December 2, 2009
Center of Income and Wealth, Columbia University, December 4, 2009
Harvard, Weather Center for International Affairs, December 11, 2009
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IFS-UCL London Modelling Household Behavior June 17, 2009
ESPE Conference UCL London June 15-16 2009
Conference on Time Use, CNRS Nice June 10-11, 2009
ASSA2008 “Marriage Markets”. New Orleans January 4, 2009.
Conference organization 2008-2013
Workshop Children Outcomes across Different Environments Collegio Carlo Alberto 10 June 2013
Workshop Child care and Mothers’ Employment Collegio Carlo Alberto October 1, 2012
Conference Parental Investments and Child Outcomes Collegio Carlo Alberto May 28-29, 2012
Conference on The Economics of the Family:I n honour of Gary Becker Paris October 2011
Conference Child Care and Children Outcomes Workshop joint Chicago University Jacobs Foundation,
February 2011
Program Committee Conference in memoria of Etta Chiuri University of Bari July, 2010
Program Committee Conference Population Policies in Europe and North America University of Louvain, November
18, 2009
Program Committee Conference Global Perspectives on Public and Private Investments in Children joint with NYU
Collegio Carlo Alberto, October 16-17, 2009
Program Committee The Labor market and the Household AIEL Labor CHILD November 2009
Program Committee ESPE European Association of Population Economics Annual Meeting Seville June 11,
2009
Program Committee The Scientific and Technological Career of Women and Men Unesco-Prometea Paris November
2009
Program Committee European Association of Population Barcelona July 2008
Program Committee 20th ESPE European Association of Population Economics, London June 2008
Publications
Books
Valorizzare le donne conviene ( with L. Mencarini and S. Pasqua) Il Mulino 2012
Economia del Lavoro (G. Borjas) edizione italiana (co-editor with A.Del Boca., L.Cappellari., A.Venturin) Brioschi
Editore 2010.
Famiglie Sole (with A Rosina) Mulino Bologna 2009
Social Policies Labour Markets and Motherhood (with C. Wetzels) Cambridge University Press 2008
Women in the Labor Force: An Economic Perspective (with T. Boeri and C. Pissarides) Oxford University Press
2005
Editor, Special issue Labour “Balancing Work and the Family” Blackwell Oxford 2005
Women’s Work and the Family in Italy in a Comparative Perspective.(with M. Repetto) New York: Peter Lang,
2004
Editor, Special issue Labour, “Household Behavior and Social Policies” (with P. Tanda ) Blackwell Oxford
2000
Editor, Special Issue of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics “ The Economics of the Family” North
Holland 1998
Articles
"Does the availability of child care impact child outcomes?"(with Ylenia Brilli and Chiara Pronzato) Review of the
Economics of the Household forthcoming
"Household Behavior and Marriage Market" (with C. Flinn) Journal of Economic Theory vol 150, 137-155, 2014
''Household Choices and Child Development'' (with C. Flinn and M. Wiswall) Review of Economic Studies vol 81
515–550, 2014
''Why women’s employment growth in Italy has been so slow? (with A. Giraldo) Journal of Modern Italian Studies
Vol.19, October, 2013
''Parental Time and Child Outcomes: Does Gender Matters" (with A. Mancini) Temi di discussione n.187, Bank of
Italy June 2013
''Endogeneous Household Interactions'', (with C. Flinn), Journal of Econometrics January, 2012
"Household Membership Decisions of Adult Children:", (with M.C. Chiuri). Labour, December, 2011
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''Home Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons'' (with M.C. Chiuri) The Review of the Economics of the
Household, August, 2010
''Life Cycle Employment and Fertility across Institutional Environments'' (with R. Sauer) European
Economic Review 3, 2009
"Motherhood and Employment in Institutional Contexts: an European Perspective”(with C. Pronzato ,
S. Pasqua) Oxford Economic Papers April 2009
''The Mismatch between Labour Supply and Child care'' (with D. Vuri) Journal of Population Economics, 4,
2007
''Employment and Fertility '' (with S. Pasqua and C. Pronzato) Labour, 4, 2005
''Child care Choices of Working Mothers (with M.Locatelli e D. Vuri) The Review of the Economics of the Household 3,
2005
''Labour Market Participation of Italian Mothers'' (with S. Pasqua), European Review of Labour and Research,
1, 2004
''Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy 1977-1998'' (with S.
Pasqua) Review of Income and Wealth vol. 49 n 2, 2003
'Mothers, Fathers and Children after Divorce: the Role of Institutions'' Journal of Population Economics vol. 16, n. 3,
2003.
"Credit Market Constraints and Labor Market Decision" (with A. Lusardi) Labour Economics, vol. 10, 5, 2003
"Visitations and Transfers after divorce" (with R. Ribero) The Review of the Economics of the Household vol. 1,
2, 2003
''The Effect of Child Care and Part-time Employment on Labor supply and Fertility,'' Journal of Population
Economics 14, 3, 2002.
''The Effect of Child Support Policies on Visitations and Transfers'' (with Rocio Ribero) American
Economic Review 91, (May 2001)
''Labor Market Decisions of Husbands and Wives,'' (with M. Locatelli and S.Pasqua) Labour 1, 2000.
''Transfers in Non-Intact Households,'' (with Rocio Ribero) Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
(September 1999).
''An Evaluation of Child Support Reforms.'' Labour 4, 1996
''Rationalizing Child Support Decisions,'' (with C. Flinn). American Economic Review 85 (December 1995).
''Expenditure Decisions of Divorced Mothers and Income Composition,'' (with C. Flinn) Journal of
Human Resources 29 (1994).
''Post-Divorce Transfers and the Labor Supply of Mothers. Labour, 1994.
''The Effect of Taxation on Labour Supply in Italy'' with U. Colombino. Journal of Human Resources 25,
1990.
Chapter in Books
''Female Migration is greasing the wheels of Italian welfare State” (with A. Venturini) in “EU Enlargement
and Immigration” Oxford University Press 2014
''Child poverty and Child well being:a comparative framework'' (with A. Mancini) in Family Well-Being:
European Perspectives (editor A. Moreno Miguez ) Social Indicators Research Series Springer 2012.
''An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Social Policies on Fertility and Labour Market Participation and
Earnings of European Women'', /with S. Pasqua, C. Pronzato and C. Wetzels) Social Policies Labour
Markets and Motherhood Cambridge University Press 2008
''Motherhood and Work Status: a survey'' in Social Policies, Labor Markets and Motherhood Cambridge
University Press 2008
''Labour Supply and Fertility” (with S. Pasqua) in: Women in the Labor Force: An Economic Perspective (with T.
Boeri and C. Pissarides) Oxford University Press 2005
''The Italian Migration'' (with A. Venturini) in The European Migration: What do we know? (Klaus Zimmerman ed.),
Oxford University Press 2004
''Public Policies, Participation and Fertility'' in Women Work and the Family in a Comparative Perspective (Del Boca and
Repetto eds) Peter Lang, New York 2003
''Husbands and Wives Employment Dynamics in Italy'' (with S. Pasqua and M. Locatelli) in Women,
Work and the Family in a Comparative Perspective (Del Boca and Repetto eds) Peter Lang, New York 2003.
''Labor Policies and Women's Labor Force Participation,'' in Families, Labour Markets, and Gender (E.
Drew, et al, eds.). London: Routledge, 1998.
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''Intra-household Distribution in Families with Children,'' in The Economics of the Family (I. Parsson and C.
Jonung, eds.). London: Routledge, 1997.
''The Determination of Welfare in Nonintact Households,'' (with C. Flinn) in The Intra-Family Allocation of
Income (Blundell, Preston, and Walker, eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
''Facts and Theories of the Italian Labor Market, 1970-84.'' Labour 3, 1988.
''Women in a Changing Workplace: The Case of Italy,'' in The Feminization of the Labor Force (J. Jenson, et
al, eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Articles (in Italian )
''L'occupazione femminile e le politiche di conciliazione: disparità tra generazioni negli ultimi quarant'anni'' (with
A. Giraldo) in Generazioni Diseguali (U. Trivellato and Schizzerotto) Mulino 2011
''Introduzione Womenomics Edizione Il Sole24ore Milano 2010
''Crediti, Congedi e nidi'' in Le Riforme che mancano (A. Dell Aringa e T. Treu) Il Mulino 2009
"Vincoli e Strategie delle donne in Italia” Rivista di Politiche Sociali, June 2009
''Il Differenziale di genere e condizione lavorativa” in Dall’ Università al Lavoro (A. Cammelli) Il Mulino
Bologna 2007.
'Il sistema Famiglia-Lavoro'' (with C. Saraceno) in Andare a tempo, Angeli 2007
''I servizi per l’infanzia e il lavoro delle madri'' in Le politiche di sostegno alle famiglie, Il Mulino Bologna 2007
''Le donne tra lavoro e famiglia in Italia” (with C. Saraceno) Economia del Lavoro 3, 2005.
''L'effetto economico del divorzio sui figli'' in: Famiglie e mutamenti sociali ( M. Barbagli and C. Saraceno
eds.) Il Mulino 2003.
''L'offerta di lavoro” in Economia del Lavoro Il Mulino (Brucchi Luchino) 2001.
''Il Costo dei Figli,'' Assistenza Sociale. December 1999
''Offerta di Lavoro e Mercato Immobiliare,'' with Anna Lusardi, in Studi di Politica Economica (D.
Terlizzese et al.,eds.). Roma: Bank of Italy, 1998.
''Rigidita' di Mercato e Costo dei Figli'' Polis 1, 1997
''I Contributi di una Demografa all'Economia,'' (with M. Di Tommaso).Rivista del Pensiero Economico 1,
1997.
Offerta di lavoro e Politiche Pubbliche La Nuova Italia Scientifica: Roma, 1993.
Relazioni Industriali e Mercato del Lavoro. Un’ analisi Comparata Italia-USA Roma: La Nuova Italia
Scientifica, 1990.
Papers under Review
''Transfers to families with children and child outcomes” (with C. Flinn and M.Wiswall) WP Collegio Carlo
Alberto, revised and re-submitted Economic Journal
''Self-investments and cognitive development during adolescence” (with C. Monfardini and C. Nicoletti) Wp
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Bologna and York, under revision Journal of Labor Economics
''Childcare, family characteristics and child outcomes: An analysis of Italian data” (with S. Pasqua e S. Suardi)
WP Child-CCA 9-2012, under revision European Journal of Population
"Child care arrangements: Determinants and consequences" (with Y. Brilli and C. Monfardini) under review
Demographic Research
Working Progress
"The role of grandparents in child care arrangements" (with D. Piazzalunga and C. Pronzato) Collegio Carlo
Alberto 2014
"Selection criteria and rationing in the Italian Child care system" (with C. Pronzato and G. Sorrenti) Collegio
Carlo Alberto 2014
"The evaluation of Reggio Emilia Child care" (with C. Pronzato) Collegio Carlo Alberto 2014
"Children as actors in human capital investments" (with C. Flinn and M.Wiswall) NSF 2014
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