Workshop on “Health, Healthcare and Wellbeing of the Elderly and Migrants”
Venue: Seminar room, Department of Economics and Management, Via del Santo 33, 35123 Padua
Programme Committee: Elisabetta Lodigiani, Silvana Robone, Anna Cecilia Rosso, Elisa Tosetti
Local Organising Committee: Andrea Berlanda, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Elisa Tosetti
Full Programme
Day 1 | 15 September 2025
14:45 Welcome Institutional Address
15:00 – 16:30 Session: Health and Healthcare of the Elderly
Chair: Elisa Tosetti (University of Padua, Italy)
Matteo Lippi Bruni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Title: Do statins reduce hospital admissions for Cardio-Vascular Diseases (CVDs)? (with Alberto Basso and Irene Mammi)
Discussant: Martina Celidoni (University of Padua, Italy)
Paolo li Donni (University of Palermo, Italy)
Title: Dynamic health care demand with informative dropout: Evidence from register data (with Vincenzo Carrieri and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen)
Discussant: Marco Bertoni (University of Padua, Italy)
Michele Belloni (University of Turin, Italy)
Title: Working longer, feeling worse? How job quality shapes the mental health toll of delayed retirement (with Alexandra Lugova, Bérangère Legendre and Jeremy Tanguy)
Discussant: Giacomo Pasini (University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy)
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote I
Chair: Silvana Robone (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy)
Speaker: Teresa Bago d'Uva (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Title: Accuracy of health-related subjective probabilities
19:30 Social Dinner at “La Gourmetteria” Via Zabarella, 23, 35121 Padova PD
Day 2 | 16 September 2025
09:30 – 10:30 Session: Health and Financial Wellbeing
Chair: Silvana Robone (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy)
Rostand Yebetchou (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy)
Title: Endogeneity of financial risk preferences: research design and preliminary insights from the PRIN project
Discussant: Luca Zarri (University of Verona, Italy)
Alessandro Bucciol (University of Verona, Italy)
Title: Portfolio risk and financial advice (with Sarah Brown, Alberto Montagnoli and Karl Taylor)
Discussant: Chiara dal Bianco (University of Padua, Italy)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Session: Migration 1
Chair: Elisabetta Lodigiani (University of Padua, Italy)
Rama Dasi Mariani (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Title: Caring connections: Immigrant caregivers and long-term elderly care in Italy (with Lisa Capretti, Joanna Kopinska and Furio Camillo Rosati)
Discussant: Giulia Bettin (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy)
Martin Halla (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
Title: Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: Evidence from a field experiment in Germany (with Christopher Kah and Rupert Sausgruber)
Discussant: Paola Bertoli (University of Verona, Italy)
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote II
Chair: Elisabetta Lodigiani (University of Padua)
Speaker: Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics, France)
Title: TBA
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session: Migration 2
Chair: Anna Rosso (University of Insubria, Italy)
Jerome Vallette (University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and CEPII, France)
Title: Hard to starboard? How far-right success shapes mainstream politics - Evidence from the Front National (with Anthony Edo and Thomas Renault)
Discussant: Francesco Campo (University of Padua, Italy)
Andrea Berlanda (University of Padua, Italy)
Title: Far-right local governance and migrants' mental health: The role of local integration policies (with Elisabetta Lodigiani, Elisa Tosetti and Giorgio Vittadini)
Discussant: Giulia Montresor (University of Verona, Italy)
Riccardo Turati (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Title: Digging up trenches: Populism, selective mobility, and the political polarization of Italian municipalities (with Luca Bellodi, Frédéric Docquier, Stefano Iandolo, Massimo Morelli)
Discussant: Roberto Bonfatti (University of Padua, Italy)
15:30 Final Greetings & Coffee Break
The workshop was funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU, within the framework of the PRIN project call 2022 (DM 104 of 02.02.2022) “Health and Wellbeing of the Elderly”, project code 2022CZKPMY, CUP C53D23002690006