Letizia Mencarini is Professor of Demography at Department of Social and Political Science at Bocconi University; Fellow at the DONDENA Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University and at the Center for Demography and Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an expert of Population Europe, among the Leading Women Scientists of AcademiaNet, and Associate Editor for European Journal of Population and Population Review. Letizia Mencarini is also in the editorial board of Neodemos, an online Italian blog on population, society and politics.