Elias Naumann is Senior Researcher at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and external fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research. His research interests are related to political sociology, comparative political economy, welfare state preferences, and survey methodology.

Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, where he is a member of the spsTREND research lab. His main research interests deal with religiosity and value change.

Alita Nandi is Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, the University of Essex and the Associate Director (Outreach) for Understanding Society. She is a quantitative social scientist conducting research in the areas of ethnicity and gender, primarily examining differences in economic and subjective wellbeing and mental health..

Ettore Recchi is Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). He is also part-time professor of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations (Paris).