Rotondi, V., Kashyap, R., Pesando, L. M., Spinelli, S., & Billari, F. C. (2020). Leveraging mobile phones to attain sustainable development. PNAS, 117(24), 13413–13420.
Billari, F., Rotondi, V., & Trinitapoli, J. (2020). Mobile phones, digital inequality, and fertility: longitudinal evidence from Malawi. Demographic Research, 42, 1057–1096.
Koebe, T., Aidoo, T., Kashyap, R., Leasure, D. R., Rotondi, V., & Weber, I. (2024). Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health behaviours across Africa. Social Science & Medicine, 357, 117159.
Poddar, P., Rotondi, V., & Kashyap, R. (2025). Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1).
Rotondi, V. & Billari, F. C. (2021). Mobile money and school participation: evidence from Africa. Population Research and Policy Review.
Kavaklı, K. C. & Rotondi, V. (2022). US foreign aid restrictions and maternal and children’s health: evidence from the “Mexico City Policy”. PNAS, 119(19), e2123177119.
Rotondi, V., Babazadeh, M., et al. (2024). Crucial and fragile: a multi-methods and multi-disciplinary study of cooperation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1368056.
Battiston, P., Gamba, S., Rizzolli, M., & Rotondi, V. (2021). Lies have long legs: Cheating, peer scrutiny and loyalty in teams. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 101732.
Rotondi, V., Noris, A., & Carpanzano, E. (2024). Understanding sustainability perceptions: insights from textual analysis and a survey experiment. World Development Sustainability, 100182.
Rotondi, V., Bruni, L., Crivelli, L., Mancuso, S., & Santori, P. (2022). In praise of the persona economica: listening to plants for a new economic paradigm. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1).
Rotondi, V., Allegra, M., Kashyap, R., Barban, N., Sironi, M., & Reverberi, C. (2024). Enduring maternal brain changes and their role in mediating motherhood’s impact on well-being. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 16608.
Nelson, J. A., Rotondi, V., & Santori, P. (2023). Economics and the ethics of care. In Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons. Springer.
Rotondi, V. & Santori, P. (2023). Gratuitousness. In Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons. Springer.
Fantozzi, P., Rotondi, V., Rizzolli, M., Dalla Torre, P., & Naldi, M. (2024). Detecting moral features in TV series with a transformer architecture through dictionary-based word embedding. Information, 15(3).
Dowd, J. B., Andriano, L., Brazel, D. M., Rotondi, V., Block, P., Ding, X., … Mills, M. C. (2020). Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19. PNAS, 117(18), 9696–9698.
Battiston, P., Kashyap, R., & Rotondi, V. (2020). Reliance on scientists and experts during an epidemic: evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. SSM – Population Health, 100721.
Köksal, S., Pesando, L. M., Rotondi, V., & Şanlıtürk, E. (2022). Harnessing the potential of Google searches for understanding dynamics of intimate partner violence before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. European Journal of Population, 1–29.
Rotondi, V., Babazadeh, M., et al. (2024). Crucial and fragile: a multi-methods and multi-disciplinary study of cooperation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 1368056.
Rotondi, V. & Santori, P. (Eds.) (2023). Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons. Springer.
Battiston, P., Gamba, S., & Rotondi, V. (2019). What does a young cheater look like? An innovative approach. In Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics, Elsevier.
Pesando, L. M. & Rotondi, V. (2020). Mobile technology and gender equality. In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Springer.
BRIDES – Brain in Demographic and Social Behavior
Funded by: Fidinam Foundation (PI)
Description: A mixed-method and neuroscientific study exploring how caregiving—particularly parenthood—shapes soft skills such as empathy, flexibility, and leadership. Includes fMRI scans, behavioral games, and original survey data.
Partners: NEUROMI, SUPSI, University of Oxford
Status: In progress (2023–2025)
Parenthood and Productivity in White Collar Occupations
Funded by: Federcasse (PI)
Description: Examines the relationship between parenthood, work-life balance, and productivity using experimental data, surveys, and performance tasks among employees in the financial sector.
Status: Ongoing data analysis and paper drafting (2024–2025)
Digital Technologies and Female Empowerment
Funded by: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Co-I with Ridhi Kashyap)
Description: Investigates the role of mobile phones and internet access in shaping female agency, education, and health in LMICs, with a focus on digital gender gaps.
Status: Ongoing data integration and dissemination (2022–2025)
Trust in Science Across Societies
Funded by: NYU Abu Dhabi (Co-PI)
Description: A global survey project on the intergenerational transmission of trust in science, combined with a randomized controlled trial.
Status: Design and pilot phase (2025–2026)
BCC and Social Capital
Funded by: Federcasse (Co-PI with Domenico Rossignoli)
Description: Investigates how cooperative banking systems foster trust, solidarity, and community resilience.
Status: Final outputs in preparation (2021–2025)
Moral Dimensions in a Globalized Media Landscape
Description: A computational analysis of moral content in top-streamed TV series across 28 OECD countries. Uses SBERT and the Moral Foundations Dictionary to explore links between moral narratives and civic attitudes.
Status: Final empirical paper in revision for journal submission (2025)