29 April 2021 (webinar): 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Gabriele Cappelli, Leonardo Ridolfi and Michelangelo Vasta (USiena)

Pupils today, astronauts tomorrow? The impact of Italy’s 1962 School Reform on human capital accumulation

Discussant: Carlo Ciccarelli (URoma2)

Marco Martinez (SSSA)

New estimates on Italian literacy rates using a sample of marriage signatures, 1815

Discussant: Giovanni Vecchi (URoma2)

28 May 2021 (webinar): 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Armanda Cetrulo, Angelica Sbardella and Maria Enrica Virgillito (SSSA)

Vanishing social classes? Facts and figures in the Italian labour market

Discussant: Fabio Berton (UTorino)

Francesco Maccelli (USiena)

Machines and Skills: Technology, Employment and Labour in Italy, 1871-2011

Discussant: Giovanni Federico (NYUAD and UPisa)

25 June 2021 (webinar): 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Tancredi Salamone and Alessandro Nuvolari (SSSA)

Comparative manufacturing productivity in Italy, US and UK: some new estimates for the 1930s

Discussant: Herman de Jong (UGroningen)

Tancredi Buscemi (UPerugia)

No revenge from the places that don’t matter? Evidence from Italy’s Cassa per il Mezzogiorno

Discussant: Emanuele Felice (UChieti)