Raffaele Guetto

Raffaele Guetto is Full Professor of Demography at the University of Florence, Department of Statistics, Computer Science, and Applications 'G. Parenti' (DiSIA). He serves as Coordinator of the Socio-demographic Curriculum within the national Doctorate in Life Course Research, teaching Demography, Social Demography, and Quantitative Methods across undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs.

His research centers on family behavior and social stratification, with emphasis on socioeconomic determinants of fertility, union formation/dissolution dynamics, and gender/migration impacts on life courses. Recent work investigates how economic uncertainty and social policies shape family decisions, utilizing advanced quantitative methods including longitudinal tax data and factorial surveys to analyze structural inequalities in Italian and European contexts.

Analysis of his 2023-2025 publications reveals three dominant trends: (1) pandemic-induced shifts in fertility intentions and family reshuffling, (2) innovative policy evaluation methods for pronatalist measures, and (3) cross-national comparisons of economic narratives' influence on demographic behavior. His work consistently bridges demographic theory with contemporary socioeconomic challenges through rigorous empirical analysis.

Guetto actively mentors doctoral students through his curriculum coordination role and has directed numerous national/international research projects in social demography. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Polis and Demographic Research, contributes to the Italian Association for Population Studies' Scientific Council, and regularly disseminates findings through the Population Report and public science outlets.