Assistant Professor
Stephen Leacock Building, Room 735
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7
Tel.: 514-398-6842
Fax: 514-398-7476
E-mail: lucamaria.pesando [at] mcgill.ca
Office Hours: Tuesday 15:00 - 17:00
Research Areas
Social and Economic Demography; Digital Demography; Family Dynamics; Poverty and Inequality; Social Stratification; Education; Technology adoption; Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Methods
Biography
(PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2018; Assistant Professor at 91社区 since 2019)
received his Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Penn Population Studies Center in 2018-2019. His research lies in the areas of social and economic demography, and he is interested in issues of family poverty, inequality, stratification, intra- and inter-generational processes, and interactions between life-cycle events and human capital accumulation. His overarching research aim is to produce better knowledge on the link between family change and different facets of inequality 鈥� educational opportunity, gender, health, income, wealth, etc. 鈥� in areas where these dynamics are changing rapidly and scant research is available. His work takes an international comparative perspective and focuses on low- and middle-income contexts (mostly sub-Saharan Africa) undergoing social, demographic, and economic transformations.
Theoretically and methodologically, Pesando鈥檚 work follows two research streams. First, a more macro-level approach, focusing on countries as units of analysis, grounded in macro-level sociological theories of demographic transition and family change, and aimed at providing population-level explanations of global social phenomena. Second, a more micro-level approach, focusing on individuals and the household circumstances that surround them, and more closely tied to the implementation of public policies and their impact thereof. In light of his prior work experience in the policy world, he has developed an interest and gained expertise in implementing and evaluating randomized and quasi-randomized study designs across low- and middle-income countries such as Ghana, Zambia, and Morocco.
Publications
Castro, A. F., Pesando, L. M., Kohler, H. P, and Furstenberg, F. F. (2021). "," Population, Space and Place, e2531.
Pesando, L. M., Barban, N., Sironi, M., and Furstenberg, F. F. (2021). "." Population and Development Review, 47(3): 719-747.
Batyra, E., and L. M. Pesando. (2021). "." SSM - Population Health, 14, 100811.
Pesando, L. M. (2021). "" Population Research and Policy Review,听10.1007/蝉11113-020-09627-2.
Pesando, L. M. (2021). ""听Demography,聽58(2): 571-602.
Pesando, L. M., Rotondi, V., Stranges, M., Kashyap, R., and Billari, F. C. (2021). "."听Population and Development Review, 47(1): 79-111.
Furstenberg, F. F., Harris, L.,聽Pesando, L. M., and Reed, M. N. (2020). "" Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(5): 1403-1430.聽
Pesando聽L.M.聽and V.聽Rotondi (2020).聽. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T. (eds)聽Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham.
Pesando, L. M. (2020). . In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham.
Rotondi, V., R. Kashyap, L. M.聽Pesando, S. Spinelli, and F. C. Billari (2020)聽鈥�.鈥澛�Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,聽117(24): 13413-13420.
Pesando, L. M., S. Wolf, J. R. Behrman, and E. Tsinigo (2020) 鈥�.鈥� Comparative Education Review, 64(1): 107-136.
Pesando, L. M. and A. Abufhele (2019). 鈥�.鈥� Studies in Family Planning, 1-24.
Payne, C. F., Pesando, L. M., and H. P. Kohler (2019). 鈥�.鈥� Population and Development Review, 45 (1): 41-80.
Pesando, L. M. and the GFC team (2019). 鈥�.鈥� Population and Development Review, 45 (1): 133-168.
Pesando, L. M. (2019). 鈥�.鈥� Marriage & Family Review, 1-12.
Pesando, L. M. (2019). 鈥�.鈥�Ageing & Society, 39 (6): 1219-1254.
Pesando, L. M. (2018). 鈥溾�� Education Economics, 26 (5): 488-515.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses:
SOCI 350: Statistics in Social Research
SOCI 441: Education, Mobility, & Inequality
Graduate Seminars:
SOCI 626 Demographic Methods