NICOLO' CAVALLI

NICOLO' CAVALLI

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences. I teach Applications for Management, Sociology and Computational Social Science.


Biographical note

I hold a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Bologna. During this time, I was a visiting student at Sciences Po Paris and at the London School of Economics. 

I conducted my doctoral studies in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford and was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.

I am the PI of a PRIN-PNRR 2023 grant and the PI of a Cariplo 'Young researchers' grant. 

I am a member of Dondena, Baffi-Carefin and IEP@BU. 


Research interests

Social and political attitudes; Intergroup attitudes; Technological and demographic change; Research methods for the digital society


Selected Publications

Aassve, Arnstein; Capezzone, Tommaso; Cavalli, Nicolo’; Conzo, Pierluigi; Peng, Chen
Social and political trust diverge during a crisis
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2024

Plach, Samuel; Aassve, Arnstein; Cavalli, Nicolò; Mencarini, Letizia; Sanders, Seth
COVID-19 policy interventions and fertility dynamics in the context of pre-pandemic welfare support
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Forthcoming

Jahani, Eaman; Gallagher, Natalie; Merhout, Friedolin; Cavalli, Nicolo; Guilbeault, Douglas; Leng, Yan; Bail, Christopher A.
An online experiment during the 2020 US-Iran crisis shows that exposure to common enemies can increase political polarization
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2022

Alacevich, Caterina; Cavalli, Nicolò; Giuntella, Osea; Lagravinese, Raffaele; Moscone, Francesco; Nicodemo, Catia
The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Italy
HEALTH ECONOMICS, 30(7): 1703-1710, 2021

Aassve, Arnstein; Cavalli, Nicolò; Mencarini, Letizia; Plach, Samuel; Sanders, Seth
Early assessment of the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and births in highincome countries
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 118 (36): e2105709118, 2021

Aassve, Arnstein; Cavalli, Nicolò; Mencarini, Letizia; Plach, Samuel; Livi Bacci, Massimo
The COVID-19 pandemic and human fertility
SCIENCE, 369(6502): 370-371, 2020

Kirk, David S.; Cavalli, Nicolo; Brazil, Noli
The implications of ridehailing for risky driving and road accident injuries and fatalities
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 250: 112793, 2020