Publications in journals
Alfani, G., Di Tullio, M. and M. Fochesato, 2025, "Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400-1800)". Economic History Review.
Brioschi A. and Fochesato, M., 2025, “The Determinants of the Skill Premium in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe”. European Economic History Review.
Kohler, T.A., Bogaard, A., Ortman, S., Crema, E., Chirikure,, S., Cruz, P., Green, A. , Kerig, T., McCoy, M., Munson, J., Petrie, C., Thompson, A., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Feinman, G., Fochesato, M. , Gronenborn, D., Hamerow, H., Jin, G., Lawrence, D., Roscoe, P., Rosenstock, E., Erny, G., Kim, H., Ohlrau, R., 2025, “Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record ”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (16).
Bogaard, A., Cruz, P., Fochesato, M., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chirikure, S., Crema, E., Feinman, G.M., Green, A.S, Jin, G., Kerig, T., Hamerow, H., Lawrence, D., McCoy, M.D., Munson, J., Ortman, S., Petrie, C.A., Roscoe, P., 2025 “Labor, land and the global dynamics of economic inequality”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (16).
Crema, E., Fochesato, M., Mejía Ramon, A.G., Munson, J., and S. Ortman, 2025, “Towards Multiscalar Measures of Inequality in Archaeology", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (16).
Bowles, S. and M. Fochesato, 2024 "The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality”, Journal of Economic Literature, 62(4), 1475-1537.
Belloc, M., Drago, F., Fochesato, M. and R. Galbiati, R., 2024, "Multigenerational Transmission of Wealth: Florence 1404-1480", American Economic Journal: Applied, 16(2), 99-129.
Alfani,G., Bonetti, M. and M. Fochesato, 2024, "Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy", Population Studies, 78 (1), 21-42.
Bogaard, A., Ortman, S. Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chirikure, S., Crema, E.R., Cruz, P., Feinman, G., Fochesato, M., Green, A. S., Gronenborn, D., Hamerow, H., Jin, G. Kerig, T., Lawrence, D., McCoy, M.D., Munson, J., Roscoe, P., Rosenstock, E., Thompson, A., Petrie, C.A., Kohler, T.A., 2023 “The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data.” Antiquity. 1-7.
Fochesato, M., Higham, C., Bogaard, A. and C. Castillo, 2021, "Changing Social Inequality from First Farmers to Early States in South East Asia", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (47).
Fochesato, M., 2021, “Plagues, wars, political change and fiscal capacity. Late medieval and renaissance Siena, 1337-1556. Economic History Review.
Bogaard, A., Fochesato, M. and S. Bowles, S., 2019, “The farming-inequality nexus: new insights from western Eurasia.” Antiquity, 93 (371), pp. 1129-1143.
[See the paper description at SantaFe Institute News]
[Selected media coverage: The Washington Post]
Fochesato, M., Bogaard, A. and S. Bowles, S., 2019, “Comparing ancient inequalities: the challenge of comparability, bias, and precision.” Antiquity , 93 (370), pp. 853-869.
Fochesato, M. , 2018 , “Origins of Europe’s North-South Divide: Population Changes, Real Wages and the ‘Little Divergence’ in Early Modern Europe”, Explorations in Economic History , 70, 91-131.
Kohler. T., Smith, M., Bogaard, A., Feinman, G.,Peterson, C., Betzenhauser, A., Pailes, M., Elizabeth C. Stone, E., Prentiss, M., Dennehy, T., Ellyson, L., Nicholas, L., Ronald K. Faulseit, R., Styring, A., Whitlam, J., Fochesato, M., Foor, F. and Bowles, S., 2017, “Greater Post-Neolithic Wealth Disparities in Eurasia than Americas”, Nature.
[Media coverage: The Economist, The Washington Post, Science Magazine, NPR, Die Presse]
Fochesato, M. and Samuel Bowles, 2015 "Nordic exceptionalism? Social democratic egalitarianism in world-historic perspective", Journal of Public Economics, 127, 30-44.
Working Papers
Belloc, M., Drago, F., Fochesato, M. and R. Galbiati, R., 2022, "Wealth Accumulation and Institutional Capture: the Rise of the Medici and the Fall of the Florentine Republic". R&R The Economic Journal
Fochesato, M. and Bowles, S., 2024. “Accounting for the Uncertainties and bias in archaeological and historical evidence on wealth inequality”. R&R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Fochesato, M. and Bowles, S., 2024. “Technology, Institutions, and wealth inequality: what do we learn from comparable estimates over 12 millennia?”. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19064
Publications in collective volumes
(with A. Bogaard, A. Styring, J. Whitlam, and S. Bowles), 2017, “Farming, Inequality, and Urbanization: A Comparative Analysis of Late Prehistoric Northern Mesopotamia and Southwest Germany” in T. A. Kohler and M.E. Smith (eds), Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences, Amerind Foundation, Tucson. [link]