MATTIA VIALE

I am currently Assistant Professor (in tenure track) at the Department of Economics of the University of Verona

My research focuses on consumption and material culture, economic inequality and social mobility, and labour dynamics in Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in how changes in living standards and access to goods reflect broader economic and social transformations.

I am currently working with Andrea Caracausi and Verónica Gallego Manzanares on a project that explores women’s participation in the pre-industrial labour market, their role within the household economy, and their broader contribution to the economy at large. The project focuses on case studies from the Republic of Venice, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the Kingdom of Naples.

Together with Guido Alfani, I am also investigating social mobility in the rural areas of the Republic of Venice during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the aim of understanding whether rising inequality in this period was offset by increased mobility or reinforced by a decline in it.