University of Rome Tor Vergata
Economist at the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he currently teaches Economic History and Applied Economics.
He published in leading journals in the field of economic history, economic geography and regional economics. He contributed extensively to the statistical reconstruction and analysis of various historical aggregates of the Italian economy, including annual time series of industrial value added disaggregated by sector and region (a result of a long-term project sponsored by the Bank of Italy), regional literacy rates by gender, and the early development of the railway network.
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Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno
Cainelli, G., Ciccarelli, C., & Ganau, R. (2025)
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper, (54).
The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synthetic control approach
Barone, G., Chilosi, D., Ciccarelli, C., & de Blasio, G. (2025)
European Review of Economic History, heaf001.
Sicilian sulphur and mafia: resources, working conditions and the practice of violence
Ciccarelli, C., Dalmazzo, A., & Razzolini, T. (2024)
Cliometrica, 18(2), 531-565.
The legacy of literacy: evidence from Italian regions
Basile, R., Ciccarelli, C., & Groote, P. (2022)
Regional Studies, 56(5), 794-807.
Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861