The second LHbrs, organised by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies unit, has taken place in Pisa in a blended format.

Programme

10.15-10.30 Welcome

10.30-11.00 Tancredi Salomone (SSSA)

Labour productivity in manufacturing in Italy and UK in the 1930s

11.00-11.30 Giacomo Gabbuti (SSSA)

When The Leopard Meets Gatsby: Social Mobility across Italian Provinces, 1899-

2005

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00-12.30 Vania Licio (USiena)

The Italian coal shortage: the price of import and distribution, 1861-1911

12.30-13.00 Gabriele Cappelli (USiena)

Were there missing girls in Liberal Italy? Evidence from a new dataset, 1861-1921

13.00 -15.00 Lunch

15.00-15.30 Leonardo Ridolfi (USiena)

GDP: short cut methods for estimating GDP

15.30-16.00 Tancredi Buscemi (UPerugia)

Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily: evidence from new sources (1540-1830)

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.00 Lucrezia Fanti (Unicatt)

North-South Divide: sources of divergence, policies for convergence

17.00-17.30 Raffaele D’Anna (SSSA)

Useful knowledge in the long run, the case of European practical arithmetic

(c. 1300-1600)