Research
Research
Here you can find some of my work in progress and published research.
'Land inequality and long-run growth: evidence from Italy' (with Dario Pellegrino). Working paper version here. Read a VoxEU column on the paper here.
'The Gender Gap in Traditional Agriculture: Evidence from Italy' (with Giovanni Federico). Latest version, here. Previous working paper version (a.k.a. 'The Role of Women in Traditional Agriculture: Evidence from Italy), here.
'Green Front, Brown Tide? Agriculture, the Great Depression and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic'.
'Land and Democracy: Effects of the Weimar Republic's Land Reform' (with Jordi Domènech)
'Historical local GDP estimates for Italy (1930 ca.)'
'Land Reform and Agrarian Socialism in Interwar Europe: Evidence from 1930s Spain before Civil War' in Explorations in Economic History, Volume 94, October 2024, 101618 (with Jordi Domènech Feliu and Ilona Lahdelma). Working paper version here.
'"Red Fear" and a "Spontaneous Land Reform" in post-Great War Italy' in Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History, Volume XL, number 2, August 2024, pp. 153-194 (with Jordi Domènech Feliu). Data, Code, Shapefiles and Map Appendix available here.
'Risk Management in Traditional Agriculture: Intercropping in Italian Wine Production' in European Review of Economic History, Volume 28, Issue 2, May 2024, pp. 193-224 (with Giovanni Federico). Read an EHES blog entry on the paper here. Working Paper versions here, here and (older version) here.
'Winners and losers from agrarian reform: Evidence from Danish land inequality 1682–1895' in Journal of Development Economics, Volume 155, March 2022, 102813 (with Nina Boberg-Fazlić, Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp). Working Paper versions here, here and here.
'Spontaneous or Programmatic? Land Occupations during Spain's Second Republic (1931-1936)' in Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History , Volume 39 , Issue 3, December 2021 , pp. 391 - 426 (with Jordi Domènech Feliu).
'Land Inequality in Italy in 1940: the New Picture' in Rivista di Storia Economica - Italian Review of Economic History, a. XXXII, n. 3, December 2016, pp. 303-350.
'Latifundia revisited: Market power, land inequality and agricultural efficiency. Evidence from interwar Italian agriculture' in Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 54, October 2014, pp. 79-106. Download the paper here. Working Paper version here.
'Von Thünen south of the Alps: access to markets and interwar Italian agriculture' in European Review of Economic History (Editor's Choice), Vol. 18, Issue 2, May 2014, pp. 107-143.
'Contribución al estudio de las desigualdades en la España de los '60: ingresos y alimentación' in Scripta Nova - Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Vol. XIII, n. 305 november 2009 [finalist in the 2008 Isidoro de Antillón Master Thesis Dissertation Prize].
'Italy to 1938' in Anderson, Kym and Pinilla, Vicente (2018, eds.) "Wine Globalization. A New Comparative History", pp. 130-152, Cambridge University Press (with Giovanni Federico).