Curriculum Vitae
Maurizio Pisati
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Contact Information
!University of Milano-Bicocca
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December 14, 2016
Department of Sociology and Social Research
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8
20126 Milano MI
Italy
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Fax: +39 02 6448 7561
e-mail: [email protected]
!ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-8472
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Education
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January 1991 – December 1993
Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research, University of
Trento, Italy. Dissertation: Strutture di classe e processi di
mobilità sociale: Un’analisi comparata di Italia e Stati Uniti
[Class Structure and Social Mobility Processes: A
Comparative Analysis of Italy and the United States].
13 July 1990 – 24 August 1990
23rd Essex Summer School in Social Science Data
Analysis and Collection, University of Essex, UK.
October 1984 – December 1989
B.A. and M.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science,
University of Milano, Italy.
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Positions
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October 2006 – Present
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Professor of Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy.
April 2001 – September 2006
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of
Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
November 1997 – March 2001
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of
Trento, Italy.
February 1997 – October 1997
Senior Researcher in the international research
project Employment Precarity, Unemployment and Social
Exclusion, Department of Sociology and Social
Research, University of Trento, Italy.
January 1995 – January 1997
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and
Social Research, University of Trento, Italy.
January 1994 – December 1994
Junior Researcher, Fondazione di ricerca Istituto
Carlo Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy.
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Teaching
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2012 – Present
Ph.D. Program in Applied Sociology and Social
Research Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca,
Italy: Il disegno della ricerca sociale [Social Research
Design].
2009
B.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: Analisi di dati categoriali [Categorical
Data Analysis].
2009
B.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: Statistica sociale [Social Statistics].
2008 – Present
M.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: Metodi avanzati di ricerca quantitativa
[Advanced Quantitative Social Research Methods].
2006
Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Graduate School of
Social, Economic and Political Science, University of
Milano, Italy: Statistics for the Social Sciences.
August 2006
E-Urbs – European Master in Comparative Urban
Studies, University of Urbino, Italy: Introducing
Comparative Studies.
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2002 – 2007
M.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: Modelli lineari nella ricerca sociologica
[Generalized Linear Models].
2002 – 2007
M.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: L’indagine campionaria [Survey Research
Methods].
2004 – Present
B.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: Tecniche quantitative di ricerca sociale
[Quantitative Social Research Methods].
2001 – 2003
B.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: Tecniche di ricerca sociale [Social Research
Methods].
2001
B.A. Program in Sociology, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy: Sociologia – Corso avanzato [Sociology].
1999 – 2010
Ph.D. Program in Applied Sociology and Social
Research Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca,
Italy: Analisi quantitativa dei fenomeni sociali
[Quantitative Analysis of Social Phenomena].
1999 – 2001
B.A. Program in Sociology, University of Trento,
Italy: Metodologia delle scienze sociali [Methodology of
the Social Sciences].
December 1998
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to Logistic Regression.
April 1998
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to OLS Linear Regression.
1997 – 2001
Ph.D. Program in Sociology and Social Research,
University of Trento, Italy: Statistica per le scienze sociali
[Statistics for the Social Sciences].
April 1997
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to Logistic Regression.
March 1996
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to Logistic Regression.
November 1995
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to OLS Linear Regression.
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May 1995
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to Loglinear Modeling.
October 1994
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to OLS Linear Regression.
May 1994
European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy:
Introduction to Loglinear Modeling (with Michael Hout,
University of California, Berkeley).
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Research Projects
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September 2007 – Present
Epistemological and Methodological Foundations of
the Quantitative Analysis of Social Phenomena.
September 2006 – August 2009
Class Voting in Italy.
January 2006 – June 2010
EQUALSOC – Economic Change, Quality of Life and
Social Cohesion (coordinator: Robert Erikson,
Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm,
Sweden).
January 2004 – July 2012
Residential Segregation in Italian Cities (with Marzio
Barbagli, University of Bologna, Italy).
March 2003 – February 2005
GLOBALIFE – Life Courses in the Globalization
Process (coordinator: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Otto
Friedrich Universität, Bamberg, Germany)
January 2003 – December 2005
CHANGEQUAL – Economic Change, Unequal Life
Chances and Quality of Life (coordinator:
Christopher Whelan, Economic and Social Research
Institute, Dublin, Ireland).
March 1999 – December 2002
National Patterns of Social Mobility, 1970-1995
(coordinator: Richard Breen, University of Oxford,
UK).
January 1997 – December 1998
EPUSE – Employment Precarity, Unemployment and
Social Exclusion (coordinator: Duncan Gallie,
University of Oxford, UK).
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January 1996 – December 2005
IHLS – Italian Household Longitudinal Survey
(coordinator: Antonio Schizzerotto, University of
Trento, Italy).
January 1995 – December 2000
Aquarius – Analysis of the Italian Religious
Economy (with Roberto Marchisio, University of
Milano, Italy).
March 1994 – June 1997
I TANES – Italian National Elections Studies
(coordinators: Piergiorgio Corbetta and Arturo
Parisi, University of Bologna, Italy).
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Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
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12 November 2015
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Firenze, Italy.
Talk (joint work with Livia Ridolfi): Design of Factorial
Survey Experiments in Stata.
26-30 January 2015
Statistical Physics Methods in Social and Economic
Systems, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France. Talk
(invited speaker): The Unbearable Lightness of the Social
Sciences: Current Practices and Possible Futures.
20-21 November 2014
6th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Società Italiana
di Scienze del Turismo, Roma, Italy. Talk (joint work
with Eleonora Lorenzini and Tomaso Pompili):
Determinants of International Tourist Choices in Italian
Provinces: A Joint Demand-Supply Approach with Spatial
Effects.
13 November 2014
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Milano, Italy.
Talk: The A to Z of How to Create Thematic Maps of
Italy using spmap.
22 October 2014
University Conference «La condizione giovanile oggi:
L’analisi dei dati per le policy [Today’s Youth: Data
Analysis for Policy Making]», Università di MilanoBicocca, Milano, Italy. Talk (invited speaker): Cinque
cose che è utile sapere per studiare i fenomeni sociali [Five
Useful Things to Know When Studying Social
Phenomena].
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11-13 September 2014
XXXV Annual Scientific Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Scienze Regionali, Padova, Italy.
Talk (joint work with Eleonora Lorenzini and
Tomaso Pompili): Determinants of International Tourist
Choices in Italian Provinces: A Joint Demand-Supply
Approach with Spatial Effects.
26-29 August 2014
54 th European Regional Science Association
Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Talk (joint
work with Eleonora Lorenzini and Tomaso Pompili):
Determinants of International Tourist Choices in Italian
Provinces: A Joint Demand-Supply Approach with Spatial
Effects.
27 January 2014
University Conference «Mercato del lavoro e società
di fronte alla crisi: Scenari possibili e sfide per le
scienze sociali [Labor Market and Society in Face of
the Crisis: Possible Scenarios and Challenges for the
Social Sciences]», Università di Milano-Bicocca,
Milano, Italy. Talk (invited speaker): Classe sociale e
preferenze elettorali nell’Italia contemporanea [Social Class
and Voting Preferences in Contemporary Italy].
30 October 2013
University Conference «Statistica e società: Strumenti
per l’analisi dei fenomeni sociali [Statistics and
Society: Tools for the Analysis of Social
Phenomena]», Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano,
Italy. Talk (invited speaker): L’uso della statistica nella
ricerca scientifica sociale [Statistics for Social Scientific
Research].
20 September 2012
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Bologna, Italy.
Talk: Spatial Data Analysis in Stata: An Overview.
25-29 June 2012
Disorder in Probability and Statistical Mechanics,
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Talk (invited speaker): The Quantitative Analysis of
Social Phenomena: What Is and What Should Be.
1 June 2012
German Stata Users Group Meeting, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin,
Germany. Talk (invited keynote speaker): Exploratory
Spatial Data Analysis Using Stata.
9-12 August 2011
ISA-RC28 Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City
IA, USA. Talk (joint work with Valeria Glorioso):
Health Lifestyles in Italy: A Tale of Social Inequality.
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14-15 July 2011
Stata Conference, The University of Chicago Booth
School of Business, Chicago IL, USA. Talk (joint
work with Valeria Glorioso): Multilevel Regression and
Post-stratification in Stata.
11-12 November 2010
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Bologna, Italy.
Talk (joint work with Valeria Glorioso): Multilevel
Regression and Post-stratification in Stata.
4-6 November 2010
International Conference «Thirty Years after
“Distinction”», Paris, France. Talk (joint work with
Valeria Glorioso): Social Position and Health Lifestyles in
Contemporary Italy: An Exploratory Analysis.
4-5 June 2010
E QUALSOC Final Conference, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Talk (joint work with
Mario Lucchini, Bertrand Maître and Christopher
Whelan): Understanding the Socio-economic Distribution
and Consequences of Patterns of Multiple Deprivation: An
Application of Self-Organizing Maps.
11-12 December 2009
ECSR Conference «Changing Societies in the Context
of European Union Enlargement», Sciences PoCNRS, Paris, France. Talk (joint work with Sara Della
Bella and Mario Lucchini): The Relative Contribution of
Genetic and Environmental Factors in Explaining Individual
Differences in Educational Attainment: A Comparative
Analysis across European Countries Using ECHP and EUSILC Data.
19-20 November 2009
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Firenze, Italy.
Talk: Spatial Indices of Residential Segregation.
26-27 October 2009
E QUALSOC -S OCCULT Workshop, CNRS, Paris,
France. Talk (joint work with Mario Lucchini, Bertrand Maître and Christopher Whelan): Understanding
the Socio-economic Distribution and Consequences of Patterns
of Multiple Deprivation.
19 June 2009
International Research Workshop «Inequality of
Educational Opportunities in Italy», University of
Milano, Italy. Talk (joint work with Sara Della Bella
and Mario Lucchini): The Relative Contribution of
Genetic and Environmental Factors in Explaining Individual
Differences in Educational Attainment: The Case of Italy.
8-9 September 2008
UK Stata Users Group Meeting, London, UK. Talk:
Tools for the Exploratory Analysis of Two-dimensional
Spatial Point Patterns.
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10-11 April 2008
E QUALSOC Conference, Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany. Talk
(joint work with Mario Lucchini and Antonio
Schizzerotto): Well-being and Social Deprivation in
Europe.
13-14 September 2007
E QUALSOC -I NCDIS Workshop, ESRI, Dublin,
Ireland. Talk (joint work with Mario Lucchini and
Antonio Schizzerotto): Multidimensional Analysis of
Deprivation: A European Analysis.
28-30 June 2007
AIS Conference «Esplorare la coesione sociale.
Teorie, ipotesi, modelli, tecniche di analisi dei dati
[Exploring Social Cohesion: Theories, Models and
Methods]», University of Trento, Italy. Talk (invited
speaker): Scienze sociali e scienze naturali: alcune riflessioni
sullo statuto epistemologico della sociologia [Social Sciences
and Natural Sciences: Some Reflections on the
Epistemological Status of Sociology].
14-15 December 2006
EQUALSOC-EMPLOY Workshop «Atypical Employment and Welfare Regimes», University of MilanoBicocca, Italy. Talk: Prevalence, Incidence, and Duration of
Atypical Jobs in Italy, 1990-2004.
1-2 December 2006
AIS Conference «Il sacro nella società
contemporanea: prospettive di analisi e questioni di
metodo [The Sacred in Contemporary Society:
Analytical and Methodological Perspectives]»,
Catholic University, Milano, Italy. Talk (joint work
with Mario Lucchini): Mappe auto-organizzanti per
l’analisi multidimensionale della religiosità individuale [Selforganizing Maps for the Multidimensional Analysis
of Individual Religiosity].
25-26 November 2005
ECSR Conference «Comparative European Studies.
Assessing Ten Years of Sociological Research
1995-2005», Paris, France. Talk (joint work with
Mario Lucchini and Antonio Schizzerotto): Well-being
and Social Deprivation in Contemporary Europe.
10 October 2005
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Milano, Italy. Talk
(joint work with Mario Lucchini): Data Mining and
Neural Networks in Stata.
8 April 2005
German Stata Users Group Meeting, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin,
Germany. Talk (invited speaker): Simple Thematic
Mapping in Stata.
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25 October 2004
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Roma, Italy. Talk:
Estimation of Average Causal Effects of Dichotomous
Treatments by Propensity Score Weighting and Regression
Adjustment.
21-22 March 2003
GLOBALIFE Conference «Globalization and the
Work-Family Linkage: How Does Globalization
Affect Women’s Relationship to the Labor Force?»,
University of Bamberg, Germany. Talk (joint work
with Antonio Schizzerotto): Changes in Italian Women’s
Labor Force Participation Patterns.
10-13 April 2002
ISA-RC28 Conference, University of Oxford, UK.
Talk (joint work with Antonio Schizzerotto): The
Italian Mobility Regime: 1985-1997.
25-28 April 2001
ISA-RC28 Conference, Mannheimer Zentrum für
Europäische Sozialforschung, Mannheim, Germany.
Talk (joint work with Antonio Schizzerotto): Atypical
Contracts. A Starting Point to Stable Employment or a
Trap?
11-14 May 2000
ISA-RC28 Conference, Libourne, France. Talk (joint
work with Antonio Schizzerotto): Structural
Constraints on Career Mobility in Italy. A Longitudinal
Analysis.
2-4 December 1999
«National Patterns of Social Mobility, 1970-1995:
Divergence or Convergence?», European University
Institute, Fiesole, Italy. Talk (joint work with Antonio
Schizzerotto): Changes in the Italian Regime of Social
Fluidity. Higher Barriers between Manual and Nonmanual
Classes.
27 July-1 August 1998
XIV World Congress of Sociology, Montreal,
Canada. Talk (joint work with Antonio Schizzerotto):
Career Paths to Service Class and Working Class Positions
in Contemporary Italy.
1-2 October 1997
AIS Conference «Problemi e metodi nella ricerca
sociologica sulla religione [Problems and Methods in
the Sociological Research on Religion]», University
of Trento, Italy. Talk: Modelli di analisi dei processi di
diffusione dei nuovi movimenti religiosi: la Chiesa di
Scientology in Italia [Modeling the Spatio-temporal
Diffusion of New Religious Movements: The
Church of Scientology in Italy].
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18-20 May 1997
ISA-RC28 Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Talk (joint work with Antonio Schizzerotto): Intragenerational (Im)mobility in Italy: A Comparative
Perspective.
18-23 July 1994
XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld,
Germany. Talk: Men’s and Women’s Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and
the United States.
17-18 August 1992
ISA-RC28 Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City UT, USA. Talk (joint work with Olga Salido):
Women’s Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Patterns in
Spain and Italy. Some Comparative Analyses and Results.
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Conference Organization
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17-18 November 2016
13th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Roma
12-13 November 2015
12th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Firenze
13-14 November 2014
11th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Milano
14-15 November 2013
10th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Firenze, Italy.
20-21 September 2012
9th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Bologna, Italy.
17-18 November 2011
8th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Venezia
11-12 November 2010
7th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Bologna, Italy.
19-20 November 2009
6th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Firenze, Italy.
20-21 October 2008
5th Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Milano, Italy.
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Seminars and Short Courses
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25 November 2016
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Hotel NH Machiavelli, Milano, Italy: Analisi esplorativa
di dati spaziali [Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Data].
15-16 June 2015
University Roma Tre, Italy – Summer School on
Statistics for Economics, Social Sciences, Clinical
Epidemiology, and Public Health: Introduzione alla
regressione [Introduction to Regression Analysis].
12 May 2015
SUPSI, Department of Business Administration and
Health Economics, Manno, Switzerland – Time Out
Seminar Series: L’insostenibile leggerezza delle scienze
sociali: Pratiche correnti e futuri possibili [The Unbearable
Lightness of the Social Sciences: Current Practices
and Possible Futures].
9-10 June 2014
CNR, Milano, Italy – Summer School on Statistics for
Economics, Social Sciences, Clinical Epidemiology,
and Public Health: Introduzione alla regressione
[Introduction to Regression Analysis].
7 December 2013
University of Trento, Italy – 2
School in Spatial Statistics and Econometrics:
Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Data with Stata.
15 November 2013
Italian Stata Users Group Meeting, Firenze, Italy:
Analisi esplorativa di dati spaziali [Exploratory Analysis
of Spatial Data].
17 October 2013
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy – Master in
Comunicazione della Scienza e dell’Innovazione
Sostenibile: Incertezza e statistica nell’analisi dei fenomeni
sociali [Uncertainty and Statistics in the Analysis of
Social Phenomena].
4-5 June 2013
CERIS-CNR, Roma, Italy – Summer School on
Statistics for Economics, Social Sciences, Clinical
Epidemiology, and Public Health: Introduzione alla
regressione [Introduction to Regression Analysis].
25 March 2013
ISTAT – National Institute of Statistics, Roma, Italy
(with Marzio Barbagli): Città italiane e gruppi sociali dal
1400 a oggi [Italian Cities and Social Groups since
1400].
19 March 2013
University of Napoli, Italy (with Marzio Barbagli): La
segregazione residenziale nelle città italiane [Residential
Segregation in Italian Cities].
22 June 2012
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy – Summer
School “Metodi per la salute”: Metodi quantitativi per lo
studio della salute [Quantitative Methods for Health
Research].
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20 February 2012
University of Milano, Italy: Concetti e strumenti per
l’interpretazione dei modelli di regressione non lineari
[Concepts and Tools for Interpreting Nonlinear
Regression Models].
2 December 2011
Hotel NH Touring Club, Milano, Italy: Analisi esplorativa di dati spaziali [Exploratory Analysis of Spatial
Data].
25 November 2011
Istituto Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy: Strumenti per l’interpretazione dei modelli di regressione non lineare [Tools for
Interpreting Nonlinear Regression Models].
3 December 2010
Grand Hotel Baglioni, Firenze, Italy: Analisi
esplorativa di dati spaziali [Exploratory Analysis of
Spatial Data].
24 June 2010
Istituto Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy: Voto di classe.
Posizione sociale e preferenze politiche in Italia [Class
Voting: Social Position and Political Preferences in
Italy].
28 May 2010
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy: Introduzione a
Stata – Rappresentazioni grafiche [An Introduction to
Stata Graphics].
27 May 2010
University of Milano, Italy: Voto di classe. Posizione
sociale e preferenze politiche in Italia [Class Voting: Social
Position and Political Preferences in Italy].
7 May 2010
Hotel NH Touring Club, Milano, Italy: Analisi esplorativa di dati spaziali [Exploratory Analysis of Spatial
Data].
15 February 2010
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy: Incompresa. Breve
guida a un uso informato della regressione nella ricerca sociale
[Misunderstood: A Brief Guide to an Informed Use
of Regression in Social Research].
27 February 2009
Istituto Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy: Usi e abusi della
regressione [Uses and Misuses of Regression].
20 January 2009
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy: Numb3rs: Introduzione all’analisi quantitativa dei fenomeni sociali [Numb3rs:
An Introduction to the Quantitative Analysis of
Social Phenomena].
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25 September – 9 October 2003
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy: Introduzione al
data mining [An Introduction to Data Mining].
21 January 2003
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy: Inferenza e
incertezza nella ricerca sociale [Inference and Uncertainty
in Social Research].
29 November 2001
Istituto Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy: Regressione e inferenza
causale [Regression and Causal Inference].
29 September & 6 October 2000
ISTAT – National Institute of Statistics, Rome, Italy
(with Antonio Schizzerotto): Il ruolo dell’istruzione nei
processi di mobilità sociale [The Role of Education in
Social Mobility Processes].
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Professional Activities
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June 2013 – Present
Editorial Review Board of Applied Research in Quality
of Life.
January 2013 – Present
Scientific Board of the research foundation Istituto
Carlo Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy.
January 2012 – Present
Editor-in-chief of Polis (Italian academic journal on
social sciences).
October 2011 – December 2012
Board of Directors of the research foundation
Istituto Carlo Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy.
November 2009 – December 2012
Member of ITANES (Italian National Election
Studies).
September 2007 – Present
Director of µLab – Working Group on Quantitative
Analysis of Social Phenomena, Department of
Sociology and Social Research, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy.
January 2007 – Present
Editorial Board of Sociologica – Italian Journal of
Sociology on line.
January 2007 – December 2009
Co-editor-in-chief of Sociologica – Italian Journal of
Sociology on line.
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January 1995 – March 2010
Editorial Board of Polis (Italian academic journal on
social sciences).
Referee for Applied Research in Quality of Life, British Journal of Political Science, Environmental
Research, European Societies, European Sociological Review, International Journal of Health Geographics,
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Polis, Quaderni di Sociologia, Rassegna Italiana di
Sociologia, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Scandinavian
Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, Social Indicators Research, Stato e Mercato, The Stata Journal.
Research project reviewer for the US National Science Foundation.
Research project reviewer for the Italian Ministry of Education.
Publication reviewer for CIVR (Italian Committee for Research Evaluation) and ANVUR
(Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University Activity and Research).
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University Service Activities
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March 2013 – September 2015
Head of the Central Dissertation Committee,
Department of Sociology and Social Research,
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
January 2013 – September 2014
National Committee for the Recruitment of
University Professors, Sociology (14/C1) – Ministry
of Education, University and Research, Italy.
October 2012 – Present
Steering Committee, Laboratory of Applied
Sociology (LabSA), Department of Sociology and
Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
October 2012 – September 2015
Deputy Head, Department of Sociology and Social
Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
June 2004 – September 2008
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology,
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
October 2003 – September 2006
Social Science Research Committee, University of
Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
October 2002 – October 2004
Central Library Committee, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy.
January 2002 – September 2005
Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology and
Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
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December 2001 – Present
Teaching Board, Ph.D. Program in Applied
Sociology and Social Research Methods, University
of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
September 2001 – September 2004
Placement Committee, University of MilanoBicocca, Italy.
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Visiting Positions
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July 2011 – September 2011
Visiting scholar – StataCorp LP, College Station, TX,
USA.
January 2011 – June 2011
Visiting scholar – The Institute for Quantitative
Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
USA.
January 1992 – December 1992
Visiting PhD student researcher – Department of
Sociology and Survey Research Center, University of
California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Books
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Barbagli, M. and Pisati, M.
2012 Dentro e fuori le mura. Città e gruppi sociali dal 1400 a oggi [Inside and Outside the Walls:
Cities and Social Groups since 1400], Bologna, il Mulino.
Pisati, M.
2010 Voto di classe. Posizione sociale e preferenze politiche in Italia [Class Voting: Social Position and
Political Preferences in Italy], Bologna, il Mulino.
Pisati, M.
2003 L’analisi dei dati. Tecniche quantitative per le scienze sociali [Data Analysis: Quantitative
Techniques for the Social Sciences], Bologna, il Mulino.
Corbetta, P., Gasperoni, G. and Pisati, M.
2001 Statistica per la ricerca sociale [Statistics for Social Research], Bologna, il Mulino.
Pisati, M.
2000 La mobilità sociale [Social Mobility], Bologna, il Mulino.
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Santoro, M. and Pisati, M.
1996 Dopo la laurea. Status, sfide, strategie [After Graduation: Status, Challenges, Strategies],
Bologna, il Mulino.
Barbagli, M. and Pisati, M.
1995 Rapporto sulla situazione sociale a Bologna [The Social Structure of Bologna], Bologna, il
Mulino.
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Book Chapters
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Pisati, M.
2015 «Posizione socioeconomica e scelte elettorali [Socioeconomic position and electoral
choice]», in Progetto sociologia. Guida all’immaginazione sociologica, edited by J. Manza, R.
Arum, L. Haney and M. Santoro, Milano, Pearson Italia, pp. 164-167.
Marchisio, R. and Pisati, M.
2014 «L’analisi del fenomeno religioso: concetti e misure [The Analysis of Religion:
Concepts and Measures]», in La cultura che conta. Misurare oggetti e pratiche culturali, edited
by M. Santoro, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 25-56.
Barbagli, M. and Pisati, M.
2013 «Segregazione residenziale [Residential Segregation]», in Questioni urbane. Caratteri e
problemi della città contemporanea, edited by S. Vicari Haddock, Bologna, il Mulino, pp.
119-146.
Pisati, M.
2009 «Mobilità sociale [Social Mobility]», in AA.VV., Enciclopedia Treccani XXI Secolo – Vol. 1:
Norme e idee, Roma, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 559-570.
Pisati, M.
2007 «Immigrazione straniera e segregazione residenziale: il caso di Roma [Foreign
Immigration and Residential Segregation: The Case of Rome]», in Primo rapporto sugli
immigrati in Italia, edited by M. Barbagli and A. Colombo, Roma, Ministero dell’Interno,
pp. 288-299.
Lucchini, M., Pisati, M. and Schizzerotto, A.
2007 «Stati di deprivazione e di benessere nell’Italia contemporanea. Un’analisi multidimensionale [Social Deprivation and Wealth in Contemporary Italy: A
Multidimensional Analysis]», in Povertà e benessere. Una geografia delle disuguaglianze in Italia,
edited by A. Brandolini and C. Saraceno, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 271-303.
Pisati, M. and Schizzerotto, A.
2006 «Women’s Employment in Italy», in Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers. An
International Comparison, edited by H.P. Blossfeld and H. Hofmeister, Cheltenham (UK),
Edward Elgar, pp. 352-375.
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Pisati, M. and Schizzerotto, A.
2004 «The Italian Mobility Regime: 1985-1997», in Social Mobility in Europe, edited by R.
Breen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 149-174.
Pisati, M.
2004 «Benessere collettivo e preferenze della popolazione: un’analisi empirica [Welfare and
Population Preferences: An Empirical Analysis]», in Metodi e applicazioni di ricerca
valutativa per la pubblica amministrazione, edited by R. Camagni and A. Schizzerotto,
Trento, Edizioni 31, pp. 111-124.
Schizzerotto, A. and Pisati, M.
2003 «Befristete Verträge in Italien: Ausgangspunkt für stabile Beschäftigung oder Falle?
[Fixed-term Contracts in Italy: A Starting Point for Stable Employment or a Trap?]», in
Mehr Risiken Mehr Ungleichheit? Abbau von Wohlfahrtsstaat, Flexibilisierung von Arbeit und die
Folgen, edited by W. Müller and S. Scherer, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, pp. 117-136.
Pisati, M.
2002 «La partecipazione al sistema scolastico [Participation in the School System]», in Vite
ineguali. Disuguaglianze e corsi di vita nell’Italia contemporanea, edited by A. Schizzerotto,
Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 141-186.
Pisati, M.
2002 «La transizione alla vita adulta [Transition to Adulthood]», in Vite ineguali. Disuguaglianze
e corsi di vita nell’Italia contemporanea, edited by A. Schizzerotto, Bologna, il Mulino, pp.
89-139.
Bernardi, F. and Pisati, M.
2002 «Il disegno della ricerca [Research Design]», in Vite ineguali. Disuguaglianze e corsi di vita
nell’Italia contemporanea, edited by A. Schizzerotto, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 61-87.
Marchisio, R. and Pisati, M.
2000 «Dalla norma alla scelta: Il modello dell’economia religiosa [From Norms to Choice:
The Religious Economy Model]», in I giovani e il sacro. Indagine sul sincretismo religioso in
Emilia Romagna, edited by P. Lucà Trombetta, Bologna, Clueb, pp. 163-180.
Pisati, M.
1997 «Chi ha votato chi. Omogeneità e differenze fra gli elettorati dei diversi schieramenti
politici [Who Voted for Whom: Homogeneity and Differences Among Supporters of
Different Parties]», in A domanda risponde. Il cambiamento del voto degli italiani nelle elezioni del
1994 e 1996, edited by P. Corbetta and A.M.L. Parisi, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 139-176.
Bison, I., Pisati, M. and Schizzerotto, A.
1996 «Disuguaglianze di genere e storie lavorative [Gender Inequalities and Work Histories]»,
in Genere. La costruzione sociale del femminile e del maschile, edited by S. Piccone Stella and C.
Saraceno, Bologna, il Mulino, pp. 253-279.
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Pisati, M.
1995 «Disuguaglianze di genere e mercato del lavoro: il caso italiano alla metà degli anni
Ottanta [Gender Inequalities in the Labor Market: The Italian Case in the midEighties]», in Lavoro d’Europa, edited by A. Nardi, Milano, Angeli, pp. 165-202.
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Articles in Refereed Journals
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Pisati, M.
2015 «Heri Dicebamus. A Re-reading of Gary King, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba
(1994) Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research», Polis, 29, n. 3, pp.
417-423.
Glorioso, V. and Pisati, M.
2014 «Socioeconomic Inequality in Health-Related Behaviors: A Lifestyle Approach», Quality
& Quantity, 48, n. 5, pp. 2859-2879.
Lucchini, M., Della Bella, S. and Pisati, M.
2013 «The Weight of the Genetic and Environmental Dimensions in the Inter-Generational
Transmission of Educational Success», European Sociological Review, 29, n. 2, pp. 289-301.
Pisati, M.
2010 «L’insostenibile leggerezza delle scienze sociali. Brevi riflessioni sull’analisi quantitativa
dei fenomeni sociali [The Unbearable Lightness of the Social Sciences: Short
Reflections on the Quantitative Analysis of Social Phenomena]», Rivista italiana di
scienza politica, 40, n. 3, pp. 463-472.
Whelan, C.T., Lucchini, M., Pisati, M. and Maître, B.
2010 «Understanding the Socio-Economic Distribution of Multiple Deprivation: An
Application of Self-Organising Maps», Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 28, n.
3, pp. 325-342.
Pisati, M.
2010 «Incompresa. Breve guida a un uso informato della regressione nella ricerca sociale
[Misunderstood: A Brief Guide to an Informed Use of Regression in Social
Research]», Rassegna italiana di sociologia, 51, n. 1, pp. 33-60.
Pisati, M., Whelan, C.T., Lucchini, M. and Maître, B.
2010 «Mapping Patterns of Multiple Deprivation Using Self-Organising Maps: An
Application to EU-SILC Data for Ireland», Social Science Research, 39, n. 3, pp. 405-418.
Pisati, M.
2008 «Flesh and Blood and Genes: Bringing (Back) Nature into the Scientific Analysis of
Social Phenomena», Sociologica, 2, n. 3, http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/doi/
10.2383/28767.
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Pisati, M.
2007 «Unità della sociologia, unità della scienza. Alcune riflessioni sull’identità disciplinare
della sociologia [Unity of Sociology, Unity of Science: Some Reflections on the
D i s c i p l i n a r y I d e n t i t y o f S o c i o l o g y ] » , S o c i o l og i c a , 1 , n . 1 , h t t p : / /
www.sociologica.mulino.it/doi/
10.2383/24197.
Pisati, M.
2004 «Simple Thematic Mapping», The Stata Journal, 4, n. 4, pp. 361-378.
Pisati, M.
2004 «Una, nessuna e centomila: il pluralismo religioso degli italiani [One, None and One
Hundred Thousand: The Religious Pluralism of Italians]», Polis, 18, n. 2, pp. 315-337.
Pisati, M.
2002 «Nelle stime non c’è certezza. Uso, abuso e non uso dell’inferenza statistica nella ricerca
sociale [Estimates Are Not Certain: Use, Misuse and Non-Use of Statistical Inference
in Social Research]», Rassegna italiana di sociologia, 43, n.1, pp. 115-141.
Pisati, M.
2001 «Tools for Spatial Data Analysis», Stata Technical Bulletin, n. 60, pp. 21-37.
Pisati, M.
2000 «Uniform Layer Effect Models for the Analysis of Differences in Two-Way
Associations», Stata Technical Bulletin, n. 55, pp. 33-47.
Pisati, M.
2000 «Il video e il voto. Un’analisi empirica degli effetti dell’informazione politica televisiva
sulle elezioni del 1996 [Video and Voting: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of
Political Information on the 1996 General Election]», Rivista italiana di scienza politica, 30,
n. 2, pp. 329-353.
Pisati, M.
2000 «La domenica andando alla messa. Un’analisi metodologica e sostantiva di alcuni dati
sulla partecipazione degli italiani alle funzioni religiose [Going to Church: A
Methodological and Substantive Analysis of Some Data on the Participation of Italians
in the Religious Functions]», Polis, 14, n. 1, pp. 115-136.
Marchisio, R. and Pisati, M.
1999 «Dimmi in cosa credi e ti dirò chi sei. Un’analisi critica delle tipologie italiane di
religiosità [Tell Me What You Believe In and I’ll Tell You Who You Are: A Critical
Analysis of the Italian Typologies of Religiosity]», Rassegna italiana di sociologia, 40, n. 3,
pp. 343-364.
Marchisio, R. and Pisati, M.
1999 «Belonging without Believing: Catholics in Contemporary Italy», Journal of Modern
Italian Studies, 4, n. 2, pp. 236-255.
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Pisati, M. and Schizzerotto, A.
1999 «Pochi promossi, nessun bocciato. La mobilità di carriera in Italia in prospettiva
comparata e longitudinale [Few Promoted, None Rejected: Mobility Career in Italy in a
Comparative and Longitudinal Perspective]», Stato e Mercato, n. 56, pp. 249-279.
Pisati, M.
1998 «Non di solo cattolicesimo: elementi per un’analisi dell’offerta religiosa in Italia [Not
Only Catholics: A Preliminary Analysis of the Italian Religious Offer]», Polis, 12, n. 1,
pp. 53-73.
Marchisio, R. and Pisati, M.
1998 «L’analisi delle economie religiose [The Analysis of Religious Economies]», Polis, 12, n.
1, pp. 5-10.
Schizzerotto, A. and Pisati, M.
1998 «La mobilité sociale en Italie», The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, 19, n. 1, pp.
159-172.
Pisati, M.
1997 «Mobility Regimes and Generative Mechanisms: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and
the United States», European Sociological Review, 13, n. 2, pp. 179-198.
Pisati, M. and Barbagli, M.
1996 «Classi sociali e comportamento elettorale a Bologna, 1984-1994 [Social Classes and
Electoral Behavior in Bologna, 1984-1994]», Polis, 10, n. 1, pp. 43-63.
Pisati, M.
1995 «La mobilità intergenerazionale in Italia e negli Stati Uniti: un confronto [Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and the United States: A Comparison]», Polis, 9, n. 2, pp.
263-282.
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Other Publications
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Pisati, M.
2012 «Editoriale», Polis, 26, n. 2, pp. 167-169.
Pisati, M.
2008 «Sondaggi insondabili. Alcune note metodologiche sui sondaggi politici diffusi dai
mezzi di comunicazione di massa [Unfathomable Polls: Some Methodological Notes on
Political Polls Reported by Mass Media]», Sociologica, http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/
news/newsitem/index/Item/News:NEWS_ITEM:122.
Pisati, M.
2006 «Regressione logistica binomiale e Bayesian model averaging [Binomial Logistic Regression
and Bayesian Model Averaging]», Habitus, 1, n. 3, pp. 49-66.
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Marchisio, R. and Pisati, M.
1996 «Religiosità in Italia dopo l’eclissi del sacro [Religiosity in Italy After the Eclipse of the
Sacred]», Chiesa in Italia, pp. 147-153.
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Software
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Pisati, M.
2009 spgrid – Stata program for generating spatial grids, Statistical Software Components
Archive, Boston College, http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s457000.html (last
updated: October 2011).
Pisati, M.
2009 spkde – Stata program for kernel estimation of density and intensity functions for two-dimensional
spatial point patterns, Statistical Software Components Archive, Boston College, http://
ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s456999.html (last updated: February 2009).
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2006
spmap – Stata program for the visualization of spatial data, Statistical Software Components
Archive, Boston College, http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s456812.html (last
updated: March 2008).
Pisati, M.
2005 mif2dta – Stata program for converting MapInfo Interchange Format files to Stata datasets,
Statistical Software Components Archive, Boston College, http://ideas.repec.org/c/
boc/bocode/s448403.html (last updated: March 2008).
Pisati, M.
2001 spatwmat, spatcorr, spatgsa, spatlsa, spatdiag, spatreg – Stata
programs for spatial data analysis, Stata Technical Bulletin, n. 60.
Pisati, M.
2000 unidiff – Stata program for estimating the uniform layer effect models for the analysis of
differences in two-way associations, Stata Technical Bulletin, n. 55.
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