Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena

Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Siena.

He is currently teaching Economic History at the undergraduate level and within the PhD programme in Economics. His research explores the formation of institutions, human capital and social capital in the long run, and the impact of such factors on regional economic growth in Italy as well as other world regions. His work has been published in the Economic History Review, the Journal of Economic History, the European Review of Economic History, Cliometrica and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

 

 

 

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Catching the technological frontier? Vocational and technical education (VTE) and inventive activity in Italy, 1861-1911.
Cappelli, G., Insa-Sánchez, P. and Vasta, M. (2025)
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Missing girls in liberal Italy, 1861–1921
Beltrán Tapia, F. J., & Cappelli, G. (2024)
The Economic History Review, 77(1), 185-211

Whither education? The long shadow of preunification school systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861-1911)

Bozzano, M.; Cappelli, G; Vasta, M.
Journal of Economic History, forthcoming

 Whither education? The long shadow of pre-unification school systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861-1911)

Bozzano, M.; Cappelli, G; Vasta, M. (2022)
CEPR DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES DP16976

 Human capital in Europe, 1830s – 1930s: towards a new spatial dataset

Cappelli, G.; Ridolfi, L.; Vasta, M; Westberg, J. (2022)
Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistica, no. 873

 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

 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

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