Publications and WPs
Publications
Women’s Voice on Redistribution: from Gender Equality to Equalizing Taxation
with Paola Profeta, Riccardo Puglisi, and Simona Scabrosetti,
European Journal of Political Economy, 2024 [DOI]
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)
with Gabriele Cappelli and Michelangelo Vasta
The Journal of Economic History, 2024 [DOI]
Le Questioni di Genere nell’Italia Liberale attraverso la Lente di Clio
in A. Incerpi, B. Pistoresi e A. Rinaldi (Eds.), L'economia italiana in età liberale. Una raccolta di saggi di cliometria, FrancoAngeli (ISBN 9788835134985), Milan, 2022 [e-book]
Gender Gaps in Education
with Graziella Bertocchi
in Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2020 [DOI]
Origins and Implications of Family Structure Across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective
with Graziella Bertocchi
in Diebolt C., Rijpma A., Carmichael S., Dilli S., Störmer C. (eds), Cliometrics of the Family. Studies in Economic History 2019, Springer, Cham [DOI]
On the Historical Roots of Women’s Empowerment across Italian Provinces: Religion or Family Culture?
European Journal of Political Economy, 2017 [DOI]
Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap
with Graziella Bertocchi,
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016 [DOI]
Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
with Graziella Bertocchi,
Special Issue on the Determinants of Gender Gaps, CESifo Economic Studies, 2015 [DOI]
Assessing Gender Inequality among Italian Regions: the Italian Gender Gap Index
Rivista di Politica Economica, 2014 [link]
Recent Working Papers
Preferences for Redistribution: Two Decades of Gender Gaps and Generational Differences in Europe, with Simona Scabrosetti, SIEP Working Paper 779, Minor revisions at CESifo Economic Studies [SIEP WP]
Work in Progress
“Gender Gaps in Preferences for Redistribution Rivisited: a European Comparative Reappraisal”, with Simona Scabrosetti, mimeo, June 2024.
"Preferenze redistributive e differenziali di genere", with Simona Scabrosetti, mimeo, July 2024.
“Female Healers, Witch Hunts, Epidemics, and Trust in Medicine”, with Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico, in progress.
“Fertility, Gender Inequality in Education, and Economic Growth in Modern Italy”
Media coverage
“The Education Gender Gap: from Basic Literacy to College Major“, with Bertocchi Graziella, VOXeu-CEPR, 5 October 2020.
“Girls’ Education and Medieval Commerce”, with Bertocchi Graziella, VOXeu, 29 March 2013.