Bio
Ludovico Genovese is a PhD student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He is primarily interested in the sociology of prosocial behavior, spatial inequality, race and migration, and educational institutions shaping stratification. His methodological interests include statistical methods, causal inference, and computational methods. Currently, his research explores the social determinants of blood donation by analyzing Swedish register data in collaboration with the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University and the Karolinska Institutet.
Before joining Columbia, he worked with Francesco Billari at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. Ludovico holds an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University and graduated with Honors from Bocconi University with an M.Sc. in Economic and Social Sciences. He also holds a B.Sc. in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and had study experiences at Cornell University and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.