Publications

Peer-reviewed Research Articles

• Torrisi, O., Fisker, A., Fernandes D. A.“, and Helleringer, S., (2025). Improving retrospective data on recent household deaths: a randomized trial in Guinea-Bissau. International Journal of Epidemiology, 54 (2), dyaf009.

• Torrisi, O., (2024). Teen unions and intimate partner violence in South America. Population and Development Review, forthcoming. 

• Torrisi, O., Svallfors, S. and Gargiulo, M. (2024). Obstetric violence in the context of community armed conflict: the case of Mexico. Social Science & Medicine, 117348. 

• Torrisi, O. and Sieverding, M. (2024). Marital quality in a context of displacement: The role of union formation characteristics among Syrian refugee and Jordanian youth. Genus 80, 9.

• Torrisi, O. (2024). Violent instability and modern contraception: Evidence from Mali. World Development, 106538. [Replication files]

• Torrisi, O., Banda, J., Reniers, G., and Helleringer, S. (2024) Revisiting the recommended duration of phone interviews in low-and middle-income countries: findings from a randomised trial in Malawi. Field Methods, 1525822X241237042.

• Karlinsky, A. and Torrisi, O. (2023). The casualties of war: An excess mortality estimate of lives lost in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Population Research and Policy Review, 42(3), 41. [Replication files].

• Aburto, J.M., Riffe, T., Di Lego, V., van Raalte,  A., Kashyap, R. and Torrisi, O. (2023). A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty. Science Advances, 9(5), eadd9038. [Replication files].

• Torrisi, O. (2022). Wedding amidst war? Armed conflict and teen marriage in Azerbaijan. European Journal of Population. 1-33.

• Torrisi, O. (2022). Young-age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence. Journal of Marriage and Family. 85(1), 7-32. 

• Torrisi, O. (2020). Armed conflict and the timing of childbearing in Azerbaijan. Population and Development Review, 46(3), 501-556. 

Book Chapters

• Torrisi, O., Leone T. and Le Voir, R. (Forthcoming). “Family planning in violent conflict: what do we (don’t) know?”. In Handbook on Conflict and Health. Edited by Hagopian, A. and Birch, M. DeGruyter.

Research Reports

• Perelli-Harris, B., Torrisi, O., Head, M., and Brackestone, K. (2023). Demographic and household composition of refugee and internally-displaced Ukraine populations: findings from an online survey. IOM Migration Research Series, N 74. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva.

• Cetorelli, V., Ashraph, S., and Torrisi, O. (2023). A demographic documentation of ISIS’s attack on the Yazidi village of Tel Qasab and Tel Banat and Rambousi. LSE Middle East Centre, London: LSE Middle East Centre Report.

• Torrisi, O., Perelli-Harris, B., Head, M. and Brackstone, K. (2022). Health Needs Survey for Ukrainian displaced persons and refugees. Initial report on household composition, accommodation, and well-being. Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton, Report 1, Southampton.

• Cetorelli, V., Ashraph, S. and Torrisi, O. (2019). A demographic documentation of ISIS’s attack on the Yazidi village of Kocho. LSE Middle East Centre, London: LSE Middle East Centre Report.

• Murphy, M. Luy, M. and Torrisi, O. (2019). Stalling of mortality in the United Kingdom and Europe: an analytical review of the evidence. LSE Social Policy Working Paper 11-19, London: LSE Department of Social Policy.

• Talani, S., Torrisi, O., Rosina, M., Deliperi, R. and Monteleone, G. (2022). Onward migration and the case of the Italo-Bangladeshi community’s relocation to the United Kingdom. COMITES.

Book Reviews, Blogs and Media Coverage

• "Teen unions and intimate partner violence in South America" Population Council Research Insights Blog, 26.11.2024.

• "Come si contano le vittime di una guerra?" (How may we estimate conflict-related deaths?) Lucy sulla cultura, 23.02.2024 (In Italian).

• “Book Review – Cathy Otten’s ‘With Ash on their Faces" edited by Jack McGinn, LSE Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, 18.11.2017. 

• “La migrazione secondaria degli italiani nel Regno Unito” (Italians and secondary migration to the UK). La Repubblica, 12.05.2022 (In Italian)

• “Armed conflict and family formation: how the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict affected fertility and early marriage In Azerbaijan”. Demotrends, 3.12.2020.