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.