SSH/ESPO Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication (ESPO)
SSH/ESPO/PSAD Ecole des Sciences politiques et sociales / Louvain School of Political and Social Sciences (PSAD)
SSH/IACS Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS)
Ester Lucia RIZZI holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the consortium of the Universities of Rome, Florence, and Padua. She is currently a Professor at the Centre for Demographic Research at UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain). Her research lies at the intersection of family demography and gender studies, with a particular focus on how belief systems, social transformations, welfare regimes, and macro-level crises shape individual and family behaviours. Central to her work is the analysis of how these behavioural shifts affect individual well-being. She adopts a mixed-methods approach, combining advanced quantitative techniques with in-depth qualitative research to capture the multidimensional nature of demographic processes.
Wang, Hequn ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Do younger adults feel more insecure in times of crisis? Age differences in subjective socio economic insecurity across European welfare regimes, 2025.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sarkar Koyel. Self-Arranged Marriages in India: Change Amidst Sociocultural Underpinnings and Hanging Norms.. In: Marriage & Family Review, Vol. 60, no. 2, p. 76-108 (2024). doi:10.1080/01494929.2024.2304725.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rees, Alice ; Charline Decoster. Belgian family policy from a comparative perspective: Does it support fertility and gender equity?. In: Quetelet, (2023) (Accepté/Sous presse).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Dantis, Charalampos ; Baudin, Thomas. The association between religiosity and fertility intentions via grandparenting: Evidence from GGS data. In: European Journal of Population, (2023) (Accepté/Sous presse).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Uccheddu, Damiano. Gendered loneliness in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. . In: Bruno Arpino, Loneliness and social exclusion among older Europeans before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023. ISBN - 978-88-32003-04-8 .
Uccheddu, Damiano ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Intergenerational ties and COVID-19 contagion: A study on European adults 50 years and older using SHARE data. In: The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, (2022). doi:10.1093/geronb/gbac196.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Italian familialistic welfare regime and women's employment policy . In: International Labor Brief, Vol. 20, no.8, p. 29-42 (2022).
Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Fontaine, Scott ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Un an après. Analyse de la variation sociodémographique de la surmortalité de 2020 liée à la Covid-19 en Belgique (2022-11-16). In: Cahiers québécois de démographie, Vol. , no., p. 1-38 (2022).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. 이탈리아의 가족주의 복지제도와 여성고용정책. In: International Labor Brief, Vol. 20, no. 8, p. 29-44 (2022).
Eggerickx, Thierry ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Doignon, Yoann ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Fontaine, Scott ; Masquelier, Bruno ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Inégalités sociales de mortalité et place des ainés dans la société. Webinaires sur la pandémie de la Covid 19 de l'AIDELF (online, du 19/05/2021 au 21/05/2021).
Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Fontaine, Scott ; Masquelier, Bruno ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Les variations spatiales de la mortalité due à la Covid-19. Webinaires de l'AIDELF sur la pandémie de la Covid-19, "L’apport des démographes à la compréhension de la pandémie" (En ligne, du 19/05/2021 au 21/05/2021).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rees, Alice ; Decoster, Charline. Belgian family policy from a comparative perspective: What works and what is missing, 2021.
Dantis, Charalampos ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Baudin, Thomas. The association between religiosity and fertility intentions via grandparenting: Evidence from GGS data (Démographie et sociétés; 28), 2021. 34 p.
Bourguignon, Mélanie ; Damiens, Joan Jany ; Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Fontaine, Scott ; Lusyne, Patrick ; Plavsic, Audrey ; Rees, Alice ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul ; Schlüter, Benjamin-Samuel. Variations spatiales et sociodémographiques de mortalité de 2020-2021 en Belgique. L’effet de la pandémie Covid-19 (Démographie et sociétés; 27), 2021. 39 p.
Chen, Mengni ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Yip, Paul S. F.. Divorce trends in China across time and space: an update. In: Asian Population Studies, Vol. 17, no.2, p. 121-147 (2020). doi:10.1080/17441730.2020.1858571.
Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The Spatial Diffusion of Nonmarital Cohabitation in Belgium over 25 Years: Geographic Proximity and Urban Hierarchy. In: Demographic Research, Vol. 43, no. 48, p. 1413-1428 (2020). doi:10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.48.
Campolo Maria Gabriella ; Antonio Di Pino ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The labour division of Italian couples after a birth: assessing the effect of unobserved heterogeneity. In: Journal of Population Research, p. 1-31 (2020). doi:10.1007/s12546-020-09241-1.
Dantis, Charalampos ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Transition to first birth during the Great Recession: the case of Greece. In: Genus (Online) : journal of population studies, Vol. 76, no. 1, p. / (2020). doi:10.1186/s41118-019-0070-1.
Sarkar, Koyel ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Love Marriage in India, 2020.
Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The spatial diffusion of nonmarital cohabitation in Belgium over 25 years: geographic proximity and urban hierarchy, 2020.
Ma, Li ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Jani Turunen. Childlessness, sex composition of children, and divorce risks in China.. In: Demographic Research, Vol. 41, no. /, p. 753-780 (2019). doi:10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.26.
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The parenthood and happiness link: Testing predictions from five theories. In: European Journal of Population, Vol. 36, p. 337-361 (2020). doi:10.1007/s10680-019-09532-1).
Kim, Younga ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Who does not intend to retire? Mothers' opportunity costs and compensation at later ages in Europe. In: Ageing & Society, Vol. 39, no. 1, p. 1-27 (2019). doi:10.1017/S0144686X19000503.
Doignon, Yoann ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The spatial diffusion of the Second Demographic Transition: Spatio-temporal analysis in France and Belgium since 1970. Eugeo Congress 2019 (Galway (Irlande), du 15/05/2019 au 17/05/2019).
Ma, Li ; Turunen, Jani ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Divorce Chinese Style. In: Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 80, no. 5, p. 1287-1297 (2018). doi:10.1111/jomf.12484.
Ma, Li ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Children and Divorce in China. Does a boy protect marriage? (SRRD; 8), 2018. / p.
Ma, Li ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Entry into first marriage in China. In: Demographic Research, Vol. 37, no.36, p. 1231-1244 (18 October 2017). doi:10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.36.
Ma, Li ; Turunen, Jani ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Divorce Chinese Style (Stockholm Research Reports in Demography; 12), 2017. 32 p.
Dantis, Charalampos ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Economic Uncertainty and First Birth in Greece (Démographie et sociétés; 9), 2017. 18 p.
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Does it take a village to raise a child?. In: Demographic Research, Vol. 34, no.34, p. 943-994 (2016). doi:10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.34.
Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Parenthood and labour division in Italian two-earner couples. In: International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 43, no.12, p. 1315 - 1333 (2016). doi:10.1108/IJSE-12-2014-0248.
Costa, Rafael ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul. Analyse spatiale et temporelle de la fécondité en Belgique : une approche communale. In: Jacqueline Hecht (Ed.), Christophe Bergouignan (Ed.), France Prioux (Ed.) et al., La fécondité - Représentation, causalités, prospective. Actes du XVe colloque national de démographie, Cudep: Bordeaux, 2016, 102-119.
Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. How Do Life Course Events Affect Paid and Unpaid Work of Italian Couples?. In: Alleva G., Giommi A., Topics in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, 2016. 978-3-319-27274-0. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27274-0_17.
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Does it take a village to raise a child? The buffering effect of relationships with relatives for parental life satisfaction. (FORS working papers; 2016-1), 2016.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Demlenne, Caroline. A qualitative study on gender attitudes and the suffering child. Social Change in Globalized Societies (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium., 31/03/2015).
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Does it take a village to raise a child? Buffering effect of family support during parenthood in Switzerland. 8th International Conference of Panel Data Users in Switzerland (Lausanne University, Switzerland, du 01/06/2015 au 02/06/2015).
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Parenthood and life satisfaction in Switzerland. Methodological challenges and substantive results. The 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (Reykjavik, du 13/07/2015 au 17/07/2015).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Mikucka, Malgorzata. The happiness-parenthood link in a context of limited state support: The case of Switzerland (FORS working papers; 2015-3), 2015.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Demlenne, Caroline. A qualitative study on gender attitudes, the intended fertility, and the suffering child. European Population Conference (Budapest, Hungary , du 25/06/2014 au 28/06/2014).
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Does it take a village to raise a child?. 2014 Quetelet Seminar: 40th edition "Fertility, childlessness and the family: A pluri-disciplinary approach" (Louvain-la-Neuve, du 05/11/2014 au 07/11/2014).
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Family and Non-Family Support during the Transition to Parenthood. XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (Yokohama, Japan, du 13/07/2014 au 19/07/2014).
Mikucka, Malgorzata ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Long-term Effects of Parenthood on Life Satisfaction. European Population Conference, (Budapest, Hungary, June 25-28, 2014., du 25/06/2014 au 28/06/2014).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Review of Cecilia Ridgeway: Framed by Gender. How gender inequality persists in the Modern World, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011.. In: European Journal of Population, Vol. 29, no. 1, p. 131-133. (2013). doi:10.1007/s10680-013-9284-7.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. La régression logistique. In: Masuy-Stroobant Godelieve et Costa Rafael, Analyser les données en sciences sociales. De la préparation des données à l'analyse multivariée, 2013. ISBN 978-2-87574-098-4 br. (Softcover).
Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The Italian Couples' Division of Labour after a Birth: Do Gender Attitudes Matter?. In: Brentari E., Carpita M., Advances in Latent Variables,, 2013. 978 88 343 2556 8.
Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The allocation of time of Italian couples after a birth: do gender attitudes matter?. Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione (GSP, du 06/02/2013 au 08/02/2013).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio ; Regnier-Loilier, Arnaud. The woman’s satisfaction with the division of domestic labour after the arrival of a child. The cases of France and Italy. 2nd Generations and Gender Survey User Group Conference (Università Bocconi Milan (Italy), du 24/10/2013 au 26/10/2013).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Gourbin, Catherine ; Baizan Munoz, Pau. Population Policies: An Integrated Approach. Preface to the 2009 Quetelet Symposium on Population Policies.. In: Population Review, Vol. Special Issue (2012).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Gourbin, Catherine ; Baizan, Pau. Population policies in Europe and North America. In: Population Review, Vol. Special Issue (2012).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Gender inequity and low fertility in Italy: the mechanisms of influence. Sustainability of population changes (Louvain-la-Neuve, du 21/05/2012 au 22/05/2012).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Demlenne, Caroline. Hommes et femmes: toujours inégaux devant l'aspirateur . Les fausses bonnes idées pour les femmes. Sortir du capitalisme et du sexisme (Université des femmes, Bruxelles (Belgium)., 14/02/2012).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Italian women's satisfaction across life-course events. New family forms following family dissolution: consequences in/on post-modern society (Louvain, du 12/9/2012 au 14/9/2012).
Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Life-Course Transitions, Market Work and Domestic Work of Italian Couples. Società Italiana di statistica. Proceedings of XLVI Scientific Meeting SIS, PADOVA: CLEUP, ISBN: 9788861298828 http://meetings.sis-statistica.org/index.php/sm/sm2012/paper/viewFile/2016/32. In: “Società Italiana di statistica. Proceedings of XLVI Scientific Meeting SIS, CLEUP: Padova, 2012. 9788861298828, http://meetings.sis-statistica.org/index.php/sm/sm2012/paper/viewFile/2016/32.
Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. A Simultaneous-Equation Estimation Model of Life-Course Transition Effects on Market and Domestic Work of Italian Couples, 2012. 12 p.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Campolo, Maria Gabriella ; Di Pino, Antonio. Italian women’s satisfaction across life-course events, 2012. 18 p.
McDonald , John ; Rosina, Alessandro ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Colombo, Bernardo. Age and fertility: can women wait until their early thirties to try for a first birth?. In: Journal of Biosocial Science, Vol. 3, no. 6, p. 685-700 (2011). doi:10.1017/S002193201100040X..
Costa, Rafael ; Eggerickx, Thierry ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Sanderson, Jean-Paul. Analyse spatiale et temporelle de la fécondité en Belgique : une approche communale. Fecondite: representation, causalite et perspective (Strasbourg, du 25/5/2010 au 28/5/2010).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Kertzer, David. Grandparent-provided child care: unexpected effect on fertility intentions in Italy. European Population Conference (Vienna, du 1/9/2010 au 4/9/2010).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Sterility and subfecondity: assessment from a detailed prospective study. In: Catherine Gourbin et al., Santé de la reproduction au Nord et au Sud. De la connaissance à l'action, Presses universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2009, p. 215-226. 978-2-87463-182-5.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Does abstinence work? NFP users and consistency of behaviour". PAA (Detroit, du 30/4/2009 au 2/5/2009).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Judd, Maya ; White, Michael ; Kertzer, David. How the division of labour affect fertility intentions: a mixed method approach. IUSSP (Marrakech, du 27/9/2009 au 2/10/2009).
Arena, D. ; Crisafulli, C. ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. La seconda generazione di immigrati in Calabria e Sicilia. In: Casacchia O. et al., Studiare insieme, crescere Insieme? Un 'indagine sulle seconde generazioni di immigrati in dieci regioni italiane, Franco Angeli: Milano, 2008. 978-88-464-9249-4.
Mucciardi, Massimo ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The influence of socio-economic conditions on large families formation (in Italian). In: Rivista Italiano di Economica, Demografia e Statistica, Vol. 60, no. 3-4 (2007).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Dalla Zuanna, G.. The seasonality of conception. In: Demography, Vol. 44, no. 4, p. 705-728 (2007). doi:10.1353/dem.2007.0040.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rosina, A.. Does sex matter? Ageing and Ability to conceive?. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 2006, p. 77-90 (2006).
Rivellini, G. ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Zaccarin, S.. The science network in Italian population research: an analysis according to the social network perspectives. In: Scientometrics : an international journal for all quantitative aspects of the science of science, communication in science and science policy, Vol. 67, no. 3, p. 407-418 (2006). doi:10.1556/Scient.67.2006.3.5.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Charity work and second career: inclusion of old people in society (in French). In: Michel Loriaux, Dominique Remy, La retraite au quotidien. Modes de vie, représentation, espérances, inquiétudes des personnes âgées, De Boeck, 2006. 2-8041-4731-2.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Valentini, A.. Demographic frame and population projections of the province of Varese (In Italian). In: Feliziani et al., Transformazioni e tendenze del mercato del lavoro in provincia di Varese, Franco Angeli: Milano, 2006. 88-464-7326-4.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Sexuality after 30s and consequences on risk of conception. In: Michel Loriaux, Eric Vilquin, Entre nature et culture : quelle(s) démographie(s) ?, Chaire Quetelet 2002, Academia-Bruylant/L'Harmattan: Louvain-la-Neuve, 2006. 2-87209-823-2.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The third child although (in Italian). In: G. Micheli, Strategie di family formation. Cosa sta cambiando nella famiglia forte mediterranea, Collana Equivalenze: Milano, 2006. 88-464-7485-6.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Micheli, Giuseppe. Kinship network and inheritance practices in an Industrial Districts Area in Italy. European Population Conference (Liverpool, du 21/6/2006 au 24/6/2006).
McDonald, J. W. ; Rosina, A. ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Colombo, B.. Age and fertility : Can we wait until the early 30s?. In: Applications and Policy Working Papers, Southampton Sciences Research Institute, Vol. A04/22, p. 22p (2005).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rosina, A. ; Colombo, B.. On age effect: results from a deteiled prospective study on daily fecundability. In: Revue d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Vol. 53, p. 57-63 (2005). doi:10.1016/S0398-7620(05)84768-6.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rosina, A.. The werewolf syndrome: moon phases and sexuality (In Italian). In: Working Paper of Department of Statistics and Mathematics Applied to Economy, University of Pisa, Vol. 267 (2005).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Fatherhood in large families (in Italian). In: A. Rosina, L. L. Sabbadini, Diventare padri in Italia, Istat, 2005, p. 199-211.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Religion and sexual ethics. In: Dalla Zuana, Crisafulli, The sexual behaviour of Italian students, 2005.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Three children or more (in Italian). In: A. Rosina, L. L. Sabbadini, Diventare padri in Italia, Istat, 2005, p. 127-137.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rosina, Alessandro. The werewolf syndrome: moon phases and sexuality. Giornate di Studio sulla Populazione (Padova, du 16/2/2005 au 18/2/2005).
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Families with three or more children (In Italian). In: Guerini e Associati, Equilibri fragili. Vulnerabilità e vita quotidiana delle famiglie lombarde, IReR: Milano, 2003. 88-8335-501-6.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Lonely old people (In Italian). In: Guerini e Associati, Equilibri fragili. Vulnerabilità e vita quotidiana delle famiglie lombarde, IReR: Milano, 2003. 88-8335-501-6.
Rivellini, G. ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. MAP: The survey and its follow-up (In Italian). In: G. A. Micheli, La nave di Teseo. La condizione anziana e l'identità nel cambiamento, F. Angeli: Milano, 2002. 88-464-3787-X.
Rizzi, Ester Lucia ; Rosina, A.. Predictors of severe diseases at older ages (in Italian). In: G. A. Micheli, La nave di Teseo. La condizione anziana e l'identità nel cambiamento, F. Angeli: Milano, 2002. 88-464-3787-X.
Rivellini, G. ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. Scientific networks of academic demographers in Italy. In: Atti della XLI Riunione Scientifica della SIS, CLEUP: Milano, 2002.
Rivellini, G. ; Rizzi, Ester Lucia. The research on population in Italy in years 1998-1999. In: Società Italiana di Statistica, 2001.
Unités d'enseignement pour 2025
| Libellé | Code |
|---|---|
| Théories du changement socio-démographique | LDEMO2130 |
| Séminaire de recherche causale en sciences sociales | LDEMO2150 |
| Chaire Quetelet | LDEMO2600 |
| Viellissement et relations intergénérationnelles | LDEMO2611 |
| Politiques et programmes d'action en matière de population | LDEMO2612 |
| Enquêtes européennes et sondages d'opinion | LDEMO2650 |
| Séminaire interdisciplinaire en études de genre | LGENR1300 |
| Genre et sociétés | LSPED1215 |