Human capital

Human capital in Europe, 1830s – 1930s: A general survey

Cappelli, G.; Ridolfi, L.; Vasta, M; Westberg, J. (2025)
Journal of Economic Surveys, 39(2), 453-488

Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferbe

A’Hearn, B.; Delfino, A.; Nuvolari, A. (2022)
The Economic History Review, 75(3), pp. 972-980

Whither education? The long shadow of preunification school systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1961-1911)

Bozzano, M.; Cappelli, G; Vasta, M.
The Journal of Economic History 84(1) (2024): pp.149-190.

Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber

A’Hearn, B.; Delfino, A.; Nuvolari, A. (2022)
The Economic History Review, 75(3), pp. 972-980

Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth-century Italy

A’Hearn, B.; Delfino, A.; Nuvolari, A. (2021)
The Economic History Review, 75(1), pp. 111-137

Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861-1921: evidence from a new dataset

Cappelli, G.; Quiroga Valle; G. (2021)
The Economic History Review, 74(3), pp. 754-783

Il capitale umano: il fattore mancante dello sviluppo economico italiano

Cappelli, G.; Vasta, M. (2021)
in M. D’Alberti, F. Amatori (ed.), L’impresa italiana, vol. II (Temi e problemi), Roma, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 673-690

A ‘Silent Revolution’: school reforms and Italy’s educational gender gap in the Liberal Age (1861-1921)

Cappelli, G.; Vasta, M. (2021)
Cliometrica, 15(1), pp. 203-229

Literacy in the Italian census of 1911: disaggregating the data

Ciccarelli, C.; A’Hearn, B. (2021)
Rivista di Storia Economica, 2021(1), pp. 63-90

The Legacy of Literacy: Evidence from Italian Regions

Basile, R.; Ciccarelli, C.; Groote, P. (2020)
Regional Studies, 56(5), pp. 794-807

Italy’s history of education: towards an interdisciplinary approach

Cappelli, G. (2020)
Rivista di storia economica, 36(2), pp. 127-137

Quite a visible hand? State funding and primary education in 19th-century France and Italy

Cappelli, G (2020)
Revue d’Economie Politique, 130(1), pp. 77-105

Can school centralization foster human capital accumulation? A quasi-experiment from early twentieth-century Italy

Cappelli, G.; Vasta, M. (2020)
The Economic History Review, 73(1), pp. 159-184

A Struggling Nation Since Its Founding? Liberal Italy and the Cost of Neglecting Primary Education

Cappelli, G. (2019)
in J. Westberg, L. Boser, I. Brühwiler (eds.), School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling: Education Policy in the Long Nineteenth Century, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 223-251

Divergence in the end? Decomposing income inequality across Italy’s regions, 1871-2011

Cappelli, G.; Felice, E.; Martinez-Galarraga, J.; Tirado, D.A. (2019)
Rivista di Storia Economica, 2019(1), pp. 3-35

Pioneering into the Past: Regional Literacy Development in Italy before Italy

Ciccarelli C.; Weisdorf J. (2019)
European Review of Economic History, 23(3), pp. 329-364

Divergent paths to mass schooling at Europe’s poles? Regional differences in Italy and Sweden, 1840-1900

Westberg, J.; Cappelli, G. (2019)
Bildungsgeschichte, 9(1), pp. 11-28

Real wages

 

The Race between the Snail and the Tortoise: Skill Premium and Early Industrialization in Italy (1861-1913)

Federico, G.; Nuvolari, A.; Ridolfi, L.; Vasta, M. (2021)
Cliometrica, 15(1), pp. 1-42

The Origins of the Italian Regional Divide: Evidence from Real Wages, 1861-1913

Federico, G.; Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2019)
Journal of Economic History, 79(1), pp. 63-98

Innovative activity

 

Patenting the “Risorgimento”: Economic Integration and the Formation of the Italian Patent System

Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2021)
Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 60(1), pp. 93-122

The Italian Patent System during the Long Nineteenth Century: from Privileges to Property Rights in a Latecomer Industrializing Country

Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2020)
in G. Gooday, S. Wilf (eds.), Patent Cultures. Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 147-165.

Agent based models

The North-South Divide: Sources of Divergence, Policies for Convergence

Fanti L.; Pereira M. C.; Virgillito M. E.
Journal of Policy Modeling, 45(2), 405-429.

Technological paradigms, labour creation and destruction in a multi-sector agent-based model

Dosi, G.; Pereira, M.C.; Roventini, A; Virgillito, M.E. (2022)
Research Policy, 51(10), 104565.

Neodualism in the Italian business firms: training, organizational capabilities and productivity distributions

Dosi, G.; Guarascio, D.; Ricci, A; Virgillito, M.E. (2021)
Small Business Economics, 57, pp. 167-189

The impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay

Dosi, G.; Freeman, R.; Pereira, M.C.; Roventini, A.; Virgillito, M.E. (2020)
Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(2), pp. 377-408

Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: concentrated power and distributed knowledge

Cetrulo, A.; Guarascio, D.; Virgillito, M.E. (2020)
Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(6), pp.1345-1379

Alle radici della stagnazione: Una tassonomia della struttura produttiva italiana

Costa, S.; De Santis, S.; Dosi, G.; Monducci, R.; Sbardella, A.; Virgillito, M.E. (2020)
Economia Italiana, 2020(2), pp. 73-122

Economic growth (general and miscellaneous issues)

Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income, Inequality in Italy, 1900-1950

Gomez Leon, M.; Gabbuti, G. (2025)
Explorations in Economic History, 98(2)

Risk management in traditional agriculture: Intercropping in Italian wine production

Federico, G.; Martinelli Lasheras, P. (2024)
IFCS – Working Papers in Economic History, 2022/04

Costa, S.; De Santis, S.; Dosi, G.; Monducci, R.; Sbardella, A; Virgillito, M.E. (2023)

Industrial and Corporate Change, 32(6), 1217-1244.

Specialize or diversify? And in What? Trade composition, quality of specialization and persistent growth

Dosi, G.; Riccio, F.; Virgillito, M.E. (2022)
Industrial and Corporate Change, 31(2), 301-337.

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

Cetrulo, A.; Sbardella, A.; Virgillito, M.E.
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, forthcoming

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

Licio, V.
Cliometrica, forthcoming

Benchmarking the Middle Ages: fifteenth century Tuscany in European perspective

Van Zanden, J.L.; Felice, E. (2022)
European Review of Economic History, 26(4), pp. 535-554

Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861

Chilosi, D.; Ciccarelli, C. (2022)
The Economic History Review, 75(4), pp. 1349-1378

The History of Rail Transport

Ciccarelli, C.; Giuntini, A.; Groote, P. (2021)
in R.W. Vickerman (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Transportation, Elsevier,

How hard is it to maximize profit? Evidence from a 19th-century Italian state monopoly

Ciccarelli, C.; De Fraja, G.; Tiezzi, S. (2021)
Oxford Economic Papers, 73(2), pp. 879-902

Early Development of Italian Railways and Industrial Growth: A Regional Analysis

Ciccarelli, C.; Magazzino, C.; Marcucci, E., (2021)
Research in Transportation Economics, 88, pp. 1-19

Kaldor Facts’ and the Decline of Wage Share: an Agent Based-Stock Flow Consistent Model of Induced Technical Change along Classical and Keynesian Lines

Fanti, L. (2021)
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31(2), pp. 379-415

Labor shares and inequality: insights from Italian economic history, 1895–1970

Gabbuti, G. (2021)
European Review of Economic History, 25(2), pp. 355-378

Public investment and growth: Lessons learned from 60-years experience in Southern Italy

Papagni, E.; Lepore, A.; Felice, E.; Baraldi, A.L.; Alfano, M.R. (2021)
Journal of Policy Modeling, 43(2), pp. 376-393

A tale of two Italies: “access-orders” and the Italian regional divide

Di Martino, P.; Felice, E.; Vasta, M. (2020)
Scandinavian Economic History Review, 68(1), pp. 1-22

Economia e società. Il divario Nord-Sud all’Unità

Felice, E. (2019)
Meridiana. Rivista di storia e scienze sociali, 95(2), pp. 39-62.

Rethinking the take-off: the role of services in the new economic history of Italy (1861-1951)

Felice, E. (2019)
Cliometrica, 13(3), pp. 405-442

The roots of a dual equilibrium: GDP, productivity and structural change in the Italian regions in the long-run (1871-2011)

Felice, E. (2019)
European Review of Economic History, 23(4), pp. 499-528

Alla ricerca delle origini del declino economico italiano

Felice, E.; Nuvolari, A.; Vasta, M. (2019)
L’Industria, 40(2), pp. 197-222

Editoriale. Il declino dell’economia italiana. Una riflessione che parte dal pensiero di Marcello De Cecco.

Felice, E., Pagano, U. (2019)
L’Industria, 40(2), pp. 185-196.