• Category: Ikerbasque Research Fellow at OPIK
• Office: 4.126
• Email: roberta.rutigliano@ehu.eus
• ORCID: 0000-0002-8077-027X

I am a demographer interested in family demography.

I studied Economics at Bocconi University (Italy), a M.A. in Demography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2012) and I earned my Ph.D. in Social Demography at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2017). Since then, I have worked as assistant Professor at the University of Groningen and I in 2022 I obtained one of the Research Fellow positions offered by the Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, thanks to which I joined the Social Determinants of Health and Demographic Change-OPIK research group of the UPV/EHU in January 2023. I am an expert of Population Europe, the Network of Europe’s leading Demographic Research Centres in the area of population studies.

My research addresses how (grand)parental support shapes fertility decisions in high-income countries. I work in the areas of fertility and family dynamics, maternal health and wellbeing, social demography, and intergenerational exchanges. Currently, my work focuses mostly on:

(1) Fertility dynamics in the context of low and late fertility

(2) Grandparenthood characteristics and kinship behavior in advanced societies

(3) Social engagement and its implications for both cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes at later ages.

Rutigliano, R. (2024): Do grandparents really matter? The effect of regular grandparental childcare on the second-birth transition. European Sociological Review, vol. 40 (5): 772-785. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcad040

Bister L, Eibich P, Rutigliano R, Kühn M, van Hedel K. (2023). Selection into maternity leave length and long-run maternal health in Germany. Journal of Social Policy. Published online 2023:1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000429

Sturm, N, Koops, JC, Rutigliano, R. (2023): The Influence of Partnership Status on Fertility Intentions of Childless Women and Men Across European Countries. European Journal of Population, 39 (20): 1-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10680-023-09664-5

Rutigliano, R., Schnor, C., Zilincikova, Z., "Moving closer for the grandchild? Fertility and geographical proximity of mothers and daughters in Belgium", Demography (2023): 10670420. DOI 10.1215/00703370-10670420

Rutigliano, R., Lozano, M.: "Do I want more if you help me? Grandparental support and fertility intentions in Spain", Genus (2022) 78 (13).  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-022-00161-x

Pessin, L., Rutigliano, R., Haddock Potter M.: "Time, Money, and Parenthood in The United States: How (Grand-)Parent to Adult Children Transfers Shape the Transition to Parenthood ", Journal of Marriage and Family (2021) 84: 101-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12782

Rutigliano, R.: “Counting on Potential Grandparents? Adult Child entry into Parenthood across European Countries”. Demography (2020): 57: 1393-1414. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00890-8

Zueras, P., Rutigliano, R, Trias-Llimos, S.: "Marital status, living arrangements, and mortality in middle and older age in Europe" International Journal of Public Health (2020) 65: 627-636. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01371-w

Tamagnini, G., Biondi, R., Ricciardi, G., Rutigliano, R., Trias-Llimos, S., Bart Joseph Lamelas, M., Del Giglio M.: "Cardiac Surgery in the Time of the Novel Coronavirus: Why We Should Think to a New Normal" Journal of Cardiac Surgery (2020) 35 (8): 1761-1764. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.14741

Rutigliano, R, Esping-Andersen, G.: “Partnership Choice and Childbearing in Norway and Spain”, European Journal of Population (2018) 34: 367-386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-017-9432-6

Rutigliano, R, (2017): Fertility and Family Ties in times of Demographic changes. PhD Dissertation. Barcelona: Pompeu Fabra University. 224p. Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669620

Creighton M., Esping-Andersen G., Rutigliano, R., van Damme M., 2014. (2014): “Is Fertility Influenced by Couple Instability?” in Gøsta Esping-Andersen (ed.) The Fertility Gap in Europe: Singularities of the Spanish Case. Barcelona: Obra Social Fundación “La Caixa". P102-120. Link: https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/bitstream/10197/10084/2/vol36_en.pdf

Papers submitted (under review or in revision)

Sturm, N., Koops, J., Rutigliano, R. "The influence of partnership status on fertility intentions of childless women and men across European countries", European Jouranl of Population (Accepted)

Rutigliano, R. “Grand-parental fertility dividend? Childcare Arrangements and the Risk of Second Birth in the UK” (Revised and resubmitted)

2021, June: Invited Talk on “The use of Instagram as a learning tool during Corona times” at Education Festival, University of Groningen -Groningen (The Netherlands)

2021, April:  Invited Talk on “Demography and women's wellbeing” at ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health-Barcelona (Spain)

2020, October: Invited Talk on “Fertility and grandparenthood” at the Center for Social Inequality Studies, Sociology Department, Trento University -Trento (Italy)

2019, December: Invited Talk on “Time, Money, and Parenthood in The United States” at Population Research Institute, Penn State University -State College (USA)

2019, March: Invited talk on “Childbirth, childcare, and well-being: Evidence from the UK” at NIDI Lunch Seminar-Den Hague (The Netherlands)