Working papers
Ridolfi, L., and Vasta, M. (2025). Reffici debet! The real wages of the workers of the Dome of Florence (1326-1861) (No. 928). Department of Economics, University of Siena. LINK to paper
Federico, G., Nuvolari, A., Ridolfi, L., and Vasta, M. “Italy's Long-Term Economic Performance: GDP Estimates from 1300 to 1861.” CEPR working paper DP19406. LINK to paper; Media coverage: VoxEU.
Ridolfi, L., Salvo, C., and Weisdorf, J. (2023), “The effect of mechanisation on labour: Evidence from the diffusion of steam.” CAGE working paper no. 689. LINK to paper; Media coverage: VoxEU.
Buscemi, T. and Ridolfi, L. "The rural-urban dimension of Italy’s decline: evidence from real wages in Venice and the Terraferma, 1380-1797." LINK to paper.
Work in progress
Real wages and pre-industrial labour markets
Ridolfi, L. "Working time in the pre-industrial period: evidence from a new European dataset (14th-16th century)."
Human capital
Cappelli, G., Ridolfi L., and Vasta, M. (2021), “Pupils today, astronauts tomorrow? The impact of Italy’s 1962 school Reform on human capital accumulation.”
Gender Inequality
Diebolt, C., Perrin, F., and Ridolfi, L. “Women’s Wages, Gender Wage Gap and the Long Run of History. France in the Modern Period.”
Ridolfi, L. “Gender inequality in a transition economy: sexual height dimorphism in France, 1750-1850.”