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The HHB Community

The Historical Household Budget (HHB) project is an international team of researchers with a hub at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a common interest in measuring the history of living standards. We represent several disciplines including economic history, economics, statistics, and history and are committed to rewriting the global history of poverty and inequality on the basis of new data sources - mainly family budgets - and techniques.

Principal Investigator And Co-Investigators

Investigators determine overall strategy in consultation with the Advisory Board and run the Project on a day to day basis.

  • Giovanni Vecchi

    Principal Investigator

    Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He specializes in the theory, measurement and history of welfare, as well as in economic history.  His scholarly articles have appeared in a number of international, peer-reviewed journals. He is a consultant to the World Bank on issues related to poverty and inequality measurement.

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  • Brian A'Hearn

    Co-investigator

    Brian A’Hearn is fellow and tutor in economics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He is an economic historian of modern Europe, particularly Italy, with interests in technology, cities and regions, institutions, human capital, and living standards.

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  • Nicola Amendola

    Co-investigator

    Professor of Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". His main research fields are on monetary theory, measurement of poverty and inequality and history of welfare. He is a consultant to the World Bank on the issues of poverty and inequality

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  • Federico Belotti

    Co-investigator

    Assistant Professor of Econometrics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His research focuses on both theoretical and applied econometrics. Federico is the primary author of three popular Stata commands providing a significant addition to Stata's capabilities in terms of stochastic frontier, two-part and spatial models.

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HHB Researchers

Researchers contribute sources, data, or expertise to the project. They have access to unrestricted sections of the HHB database and tools, and use them in their research (collaborative research, where possible and appropriate).

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  • Rolf Aaberge
    Rolf Aaberge - Head of Research
    Statistics Norway

    He is a graduate in mathematics and statistics at the University of Oslo. His activity includes management of a four years international research program on evaluation of welfare and tax policies in welfare states. He has published in several economic and statistical international journals.

    Interests
    • #econometrics
    • #income distribution
    • #institutions
    • #poverty
    • #public finance
    • #statistics
    • #taxation
  • Bilal Al Kiswani
    Bilal Al Kiswani - Information Analyst
    UNDP

    He holds a BSc in Business and Financial Economics (2006, Yarmouk University, Jordan), an MSc in Development Economics and International Co-operation and a PhD in Economics (2007 and 2011, University of Tor Vergata, Rome). His past research has focused on developing spatial cost of living indices.

    Interests
    • #cost of living
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #migration
    • #price indices
  • Francesco Andreoli
    Francesco Andreoli - Researcher
    LISER

    Francesco Andreoli (PhD) is researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), where he joined in 2013. Francesco's research focuses on distributional issues (inequality between generations and across space), on the role of public policy in alleviating inequality (with a focus on child care, educational and predistribution policies), and on methodological advancements on measurement and inference.


    Interests
    • #econometrics
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
    • #public policies
  • Leticia Arroyo Abad
    Leticia Arroyo Abad - Professor
    CUNY - Queens College

    Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she got a PhD from the University of California, Davis. Previously Associate Professor of Economics & International Politics at Middlebury College (UK), she also worked as a financial analyst for a few years in her home country. Now she is also a member of the NSF-funded Global Price and Income History Group.


    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #globalization
    • #inequality
    • #latin america
    • #migration
    • #trade
  • Pablo Astorga
    Pablo Astorga - Research Fellow
    IBEI and Oxford Economics

    He is an economist with considerable academic and market-oriented experience in the analysis of developing countries. He has been involved in the creation of an economic history database for Latin America (MOxLAD), publishing in several international economic journals. Pablo has a D.Phil. in Economics, a M.Sc. in Development Economics from the University of Oxford and also an MBA from IESA, Venezuela.

    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #globalization
    • #inequality
    • #latin america
    • #trade
  • Luis Bértola
    Luis Bértola - Economic historian
    Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

    Luis Bértola is Full Professor of Economic and Social History at the Department of Social Sciences of the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay). His main research topics are comparative long-run development, inequality, and living standards, with a focus on Latin America. Prof. Bértola is also the coordinator of MOxLAD (Montevideo-Oxford Latin America Economic History Database).


    Interests
    • #cost of living
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #inequality
    • #latin america
    • #price indices
    • #well-being
  • Pierre Blavier
    Pierre Blavier - PhD student
    Paris School of Economics

    He holds a Master in Economics (Paris School of Economics, 2011) and in Sociology (EHESS, Paris, 2011). He is completing a joint-PhD in Economics and Sociology at the Paris School of Economics (Thesis : Household budgets in times of unemployment. The case of the 2008 Spanish Great Recession").


    Interests
    • #econometrics
    • #income distribution
    • #unemployment
  • Francesco Bloise
    Francesco Bloise - Researcher
    University of Rome “La Sapienza”

    Francesco Bloise obtained a PhD in Economics and Finance at Sapienza University of Rome in September 2017. In his PhD thesis he has worked on the intergenerational transmission of wealth and earnings in Italy. Currently, he is involved in studies and research projects on the intergenerational transmission of income and wealth in advanced and developing countries, on the welfare state and public expenditure.


    Interests
    • #household finance
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
    • #social mobility
  • Bruno Blondé
    Bruno Blondé - Economic historian
    University of Antwerpen

    He is Professor of History at the University of Antwerp, and founder of the Centre for Urban History. He holds a PhD in History from KU Leuven. His research interests include the history of economic growth and social inequality, transportation and urbanisation, material culture and consumption of the early modern Low Countries (15th-19th centuries). He also studies retail developments and pre-industrial consumption inequalities. In 2018 he co-authored and co-edited the book "City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100-1800” (CUP).


    Interests
    • #consumption
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #europe
    • #history
    • #inequality
    • #infrastructures
    • #social mobility
    • #urbanisation
  • Nikolay Bogatzky
    Nikolay Bogatzky - Socio-economist
    UNWE Sofia

    Nikolay is Research Fellow at the Monetary Research Center (UNWE, Sofia). He holds a Master in International Relations from Roma Tre University (2015) and one in Sociology from Sapienza University (2017), where he is completing a European PhD in Socio-economic and Statistical Studies. His research focuses on the interaction between Economics and Sociology in a historical perspective.


    Interests
    • #economic thought
    • #ethics
    • #history
    • #sociology
  • Jutta Bolt
    Jutta Bolt - Development economist
    Lund University

    She holds a PhD in Economics (University of Groningen). Her research focuses on long-term comparative economic development patterns, with a special focus on Africa. Her current research projects focus on long-term population dynamics, on the historical origins of present-day income inequality, and on long-term agricultural productivity. She is also affiliated with the Maddison Project.


    Interests
    • #africa
    • #demography
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #history
  • Cristina Borderías
    Cristina Borderías - Economic historian
    University of Barcelona

    Dr. Borderías is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Barcelona, where she directs the Research Excellence Group “History of Labour: Work, Institutions and Gender”. Specialist in the social history of women, she has written and directed research on the Catalan labor market, and on female and child labor in the 19th and 20th century.


    Interests
    • #child labor
    • #economic history
    • #family economics
    • #gender economics
    • #history
    • #institutions
    • #labor economics
    • #labor markets
    • #poverty
    • #regional economics
    • #social policy
    • #unemployment
  • Corinne Boter
    Corinne Boter - PhD Student
    Wageningen University

    She studied socio-economic history in Amsterdam, where she specialized in Dutch, early modern history. She is currently working on the project ‘Industriousness in an imperial economy. Interactions of households’ work patterns, time allocation and consumption in the Netherlands and the Netherlands-Indies, 1815-1940’.

    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #gender economics
    • #labor economics
  • Monica Bozzano
    Monica Bozzano - Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

    She holds a PhD from the University of Pavia and she received her MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Sydney. Her research interests are in the interaction between long-run development and institutions in a historical perspective, with a special focus on gender issues.

    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #gender economics
    • #institutions
  • Marianna Brunetti
    Marianna Brunetti - Associate Professor
    University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

    Marianna holds a PhD in “Computational Methods for Financial and Economic Forecasting and Decisions” (University of Bergamo), and now teaches Economic Statistics in Tor Vergata (Rome). Her research mainly focuses on household finance, ageing and financial markets, financial markets and business cycle, macroeconomic forecasts, and financial markets efficiency.


    Interests
    • #demography
    • #econometrics
    • #family economics
    • #household finance
    • #microeconometrics
  • Paolo Brunori
    Paolo Brunori - Researcher
    University of Florence

    Paolo Brunori is Assistant professor of Economics at the University of Florence, and is also affiliated to the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Bari. His research focuses on methodological aspects of the measurement of social inequalities. His scholarly articles have appeared in a number of international, peer-reviewed journals. He is fellow of the Life Course Center, University of Queensland, where he was visiting researcher in 2017.


    Interests
    • #education
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
    • #social mobility
  • Olga Cantó Sánchez
    Olga Cantó Sánchez - Professor
    Universidad de Alcalá

    She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (1998) and her main research interests focus on the dynamics of income distribution, poverty, income inequality, gender discrimination in the labor market and the assessment of the distributional impact of public policies.


    Interests
    • #gender economics
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
    • #poverty
  • Stefano Chianese
    Stefano Chianese - Historian
    University of Tor Vergata, Rome

    He is a Researcher at the University of Tor Vergata (Rome), after a PhD in "History of women and gender identity in the modern and contemporary age" at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". Among other things, he has focused on the history of migration in Italy, on education and on the history of the urban petty bourgeoisie.

    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #education
    • #gender economics
    • #history
    • #institutions
    • #migration
  • Francesco Cinnirella
    Francesco Cinnirella - Economist
    Ifo Institute, Munich

    He holds a BA in Economics (2003, University of Tor Vergata, Rome), an MA in Economics and Finance (2004, Venice International University) and a D.o.p. from the Ludwig Maximilians-Universitat Munich (2008). His works have been published in several international journals, including Cliometrica and the Journal of Economic Growth.

    Interests
    • #demography
    • #economic history
    • #education
    • #labor economics
  • Andrea Colli
    Andrea Colli - Economic historian
    Bocconi University

    Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Milan. His research interests range from the history of family firms, to small and medium-sized enterprises, to the role played by international entrepreneurs and firms in the global economy, to corporate governance in historical perspective. He has also devoted research activity to the study of the history of entrepreneurship in different contexts.


    Interests
    • #business
    • #economic history
    • #family economics
    • #globalization
    • #history
  • Andrew Dabalen
    Andrew Dabalen - Lead Economist
    World Bank

    He holds a Masters in International Development from University of California - Davis, and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of California – Berkeley

    He focuses on policy analysis and research in  development issues and has worked in Africa and Europe and Central Regions


    Interests
    • #africa
    • #development economics
    • #inequality
    • #labor markets
    • #poverty
    • #social impact analysis
  • Giuseppe De Corso
    Giuseppe De Corso - Professor
    Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

    He is Coordinator of the PhD course “Model Based Public Planning Policy Design and Management” and also Visiting Professor at ISPI Milan and Collegio di Milano. He has worked at the Central University of Venezuela and for the Central Bank of Venezuela and has also contributed to the MOxLAD database.

    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #national accounting
  • Dilhanie Deepawansa
    Dilhanie Deepawansa - Statistician
    Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka

    She is a statistician at the Sample Survey Division, Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka, and PhD Student at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo.

    Interests
    • #econometrics
    • #statistics
  • Federica Di Battista
    Federica Di Battista - Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Tor Vergata, Rome

    She holds a MSc and a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Her research interests are in European Economic History, with focus on the United Kingdom, poverty and inequality measurement, vulnerability, and gender inequality. She is a consultant to FAO and World Bank.

    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #gender economics
    • #inequality
    • #poverty
  • Maria Edo
    Maria Edo - PhD Student
    Universidad de San Andrés

    She is a PhD student at Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires. She is currently focused on analyzing the course of argentine’s middle class over the last two decades. She has also participated in several World Bank projects connected with her research interests dealing with different countries around the world.

    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #poverty
    • #public policies
    • #well-being
  • Sergio Espuelas
    Sergio Espuelas - Lecturer
    University of Barcelona

    He has been a lecturer at the University of Valladolid, and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis and the University of Kent. He obtained his PhD at the University of Barcelona, with a dissertation titled “Inequality, democracy and the welfare state: A comparative analyses of the determinants of social spending in Spain, 1850-2005”.

    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #education
    • #income distribution
    • #institutions
  • Emanuele Felice
    Emanuele Felice - Associate Professor
    Università "G. D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara

    He holds a PhD in Economic History from the University of Pisa (2007). In addition to many publications in international economic journals, he has published several books about Italian economic history. His most recent work is "Rise and decline. An economic history of Italy" (Il Mulino, 2015). He has also worked as consultant for the Bank of Italy and has served for five years (2010-2015) visiting professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.


    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #income distribution
    • #regional economics
    • #well-being
  • Johan Fourie
    Johan Fourie - Economic historian
    Stellenbosch University

    He holds a PhD in Economic History (Utrecht University). His research is aimed at investigating the long-run, structural changes in societies and the factors that cause growth, with a focus on South Africa. He is a coordinator of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) and founding member of the African Economic History Network.


    Interests
    • #africa
    • #cliometrics
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
  • Ewout Frankema
    Ewout Frankema - Economic historian
    Wageningen University

    Ewout Frankema is Professor of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University, member of the Young Royal Dutch Academy  of Arts and Sciences and research fellow of CEPR. His research agenda focuses on a deeper understanding of the long-term comparative economic development of developing regions (Africa, Latin America, Asia) and the historical origins and nature of present-day global inequality.


    Interests
    • #africa
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #environmental history
    • #inequality
    • #rural history
  • Giuliana Freschi
    Giuliana Freschi - Research Assistant
    University of Tor Vergata, Rome

    She holds a BA in Economics (2015, University of Rome Tor Vergata) and a MSc in Economics (2016, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics). She is currently research assistant at HHB.


    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #inequality
    • #institutions
    • #poverty
    • #well-being
  • Kyoji Fukao
    Kyoji Fukao - Professor
    Institute of Economic Research and Hitotsubashi University

    Prof. Fukao is Vice-Chairperson of the Working Party on Industry Analysis (OECD), Member of the Executive Committee of the Asian Historical Economics Society and Associate at the Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (Warwick University). He has published widely in international economics journals.

    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #international economics
    • #productivity
  • Giacomo Gabbuti
    Giacomo Gabbuti - MPhil Student
    University of Oxford

    After a BA and an MSc in Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and an MPhil in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford, he is currently a DPhil student in the same university. Previously, he has worked as a researcher at the HHB Project.


    Interests
    • #fascism
    • #italy
    • #poverty
    • #social mobility
    • #wealth
  • Elena Giarda
    Elena Giarda - Economist
    Prometeia Associazione

    Her areas of expertise are microeconometrics and tax-benefit microsimulation. Before joining Prometeia, she worked as Assistant Statistician for the Scottish Government. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Bologna, an MSc in Economics from the University of Glasgow and a BSc in Political Sciences from the University of Milan.


    Interests
    • #household finance
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
    • #microeconometrics
    • #poverty
  • Jordi Guilera
    Jordi Guilera - Postdoctoral Researcher
    University Rovira i Virgili

    He holds an Agricultural Technical Engineering (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2000), a BA in Economics (University of Barcelona, 2004) and a PhD in Economic History (University of Barcelona, 2014), with a dissertation on "Income inequality in historical perspective, Portugal (1890-2006)". He has several publications on Portuguese historical inequality.

    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
  • Ramani  Gunatilaka
    Ramani Gunatilaka - Consultant
    Centre for Poverty Analysis and University of Colombo

    She holds a BSc in economics from University College London, an MSc in development economics from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in applied econometrics from Monash University. She has several publications in international journals and is also member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo.

    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #econometrics
    • #income distribution
    • #labor economics
    • #well-being
  • Alfonso Herranz Loncán
    Alfonso Herranz Loncán - Associate Professor
    University of Barcelona

    He is an economic historian of late modern Spain and Latin America. After his BAs in Economics (1993) and History (1996) at the University of Zaragoza, in 2002 he has obtained a PhD in Economic History at LSE, with a dissertation on the topic of Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Spain, 1845-1935.

    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #income distribution
    • #latin america
    • #public policies
  • Adeeba Ishaq
    Adeeba Ishaq - Lecturer
    PIDE – Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

    Lecturer at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE, Islamabad), Adeeba holds an MPhil in Economics from Quaid-i-AzamUniversity (Islamabad, Pakistan) and a MSc in Economics from PMAS Arid Agriculture University, (Rawalpindi, Pakistan).


    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #inequality
    • #labor economics
    • #poverty
    • #well-being
  • Morten Jerven
    Morten Jerven - Economic historian
    Norwegian University of Life Sciences

    He holds a PhD in Economic History (LSE) and has published widely on African economic development, mainly on patterns of economic growth and on economic development statistics. His books are based on research in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Botswana. He is currently working on linking studies on post-colonial economic development with the economic history of colonial Africa.


    Interests
    • #africa
    • #development economics
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
  • Lucia Latino
    Lucia Latino - Economist
    University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

    She holds a PhD in International Economics and focused her doctoral research on the evolution of vulnerability to poverty in Italy and the estimation of the prevalence of undernourishment. She is currently consulting for the UN World Food Programme.

    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #international economics
    • #poverty
    • #social policy
  • Francesca Lipari
    Francesca Lipari - Researcher
    University of Pennsylvania

    Francesca holds a PhD from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and she is currently a visiting Research Scholar at the “Philosophy, Politics, and Economics” program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the economics of networks and information, uncertainty and incentives.


    Interests
    • #behavioral economics
    • #economics of network and information
    • #family economics
    • #game theory
    • #philosophy of economics
  • Marcella Lorenzini
    Marcella Lorenzini - Economic historian
    University of Milan

    Marcella Lorenzini earned a PhD in Business History at the University of Milan and one in Economic History from the University of Verona. She currently teaches World Economic History in Milan, while her research mainly analyzes how credit markets developed in absence of formal institutions, with a special focus on notaries.


    Interests
    • #business
    • #credit
    • #economic history
    • #history
    • #institutions
  • Giulia Mancini
    Giulia Mancini - PhD Student
    University of Tor Vergata, Rome

    After studying History and Economics, she obtained her MSc in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. She has participated in research projects at the OECD and World Bank and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a consultant to the World Bank.


    Interests
    • #econometrics
    • #gender economics
    • #inequality
    • #labor economics
    • #social policy
  • Anna Missiaia
    Anna Missiaia - Economic Historian
    Lund University

    She received a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics with a thesis on regional disparities in pre-WWI Italy. She is currently working on measures of wealth inequality in Sweden in the period 1750-1900 and on the effect of property rights on agricultural performance in pre-industrial Sweden.

    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #europe
    • #inequality
    • #institutions
    • #regional economics
  • Jørgen Heibø Modalsli
    Jørgen Heibø Modalsli - Researcher
    Statistics Norway

    He holds a BA in Economics and History (2003), a MPhil in Economics (Thesis: Is Fiscal Policy Keynesian? Fiscal Policy in Western Countries: an empirical study, 2005) and a PhD in Economics (Thesis: Growing unequal? Essays on inequality, economic growth and development, 2009) from the University of Oslo.

    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #inequality
  • Vasco Molini
    Vasco Molini - Economist
    World Bank

    He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Florence. He focuses on policy analysis and research in  development issues and has worked in Sub Saharan Africa and Maghreb region. His recent research agenda focuses on understanding the long-term  determinants of inequality and polarization in Sub Saharan Africa.


    Interests
    • #africa
    • #development economics
    • #inequality
    • #labor markets
    • #polarization
  • Luisa Muñoz-Abeledo
    Luisa Muñoz-Abeledo - Associate Professor
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    PhD in Economic History at the Universitat Àutonoma de Barcelona (2003), Luisa is now Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her research focuses on labour history and business history from a gender perspective. She is the principal investigator of the Project "Wages, Activity and Living Standards in Galicia, 1850-1950", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Industry.


    Interests
    • #business
    • #economic history
    • #europe
    • #gender economics
    • #labor economics
  • Guido Neidhöfer
    Guido Neidhöfer - Researcher
    DIW Berlin

    Guido Neidhöfer is Research Associate ad DIW Berlin - the German Institute for Economic Research. He holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business and Economics. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of economic inequality and social mobility.


    Interests
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
    • #social mobility
  • Esteban Nicolini
    Esteban Nicolini - Visiting Professor
    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    He has a BA in History from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and a PhD in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He has developed applied research as a consultant for the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), UNICEF and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and some of his papers have been published by eminent international journals.

    Interests
    • #demography
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #inequality
  • Stefan Öberg
    Stefan Öberg - Economic Historian
    University of Gothenburg

    Stefan is a researcher and teacher at the Unit for Economic History of the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on historical demography, with a focus on the long-term trends in height and health, and and on the social history related to the interplay between working life and the household. He also teaches courses in introductory statistics and on the long-term history of the production, distribution and consumption of food.


    Interests
    • #demography
    • #economic history
    • #health
  • Francesco Olivanti
    Francesco Olivanti - MSc Student
    Bocconi University, Milan

    He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", with a thesis on the evolution of living conditions in Spain. He is currently reading for a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. Previously, he has worked as a researcher at the HHB Project.


    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #education
    • #europe
    • #poverty
    • #well-being
  • Beatrice Penati
    Beatrice Penati - Assistant Professor
    Nazarbayev University

    She holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Trieste, Italy, and a PhD in History joint by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). She is currently working on her book "To feed and to mobilize. Land reform and rural economy in early Soviet Central Asia".

    Interests
    • #agriculture
    • #asia
    • #economic history
    • #institutions
  • Faustine Perrin
    Faustine Perrin - Postdoctoral Researcher
    Lund University

    She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg (France) and from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) in 2013. Her research interests focus on the mechanisms underlying the long-run processes of economic and demographic development – with a particular emphasis on women empowerment and gender equality.


    Interests
    • #demography
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #gender economics
  • Valeria Pinchera
    Valeria Pinchera - Economic historian
    University of Pisa

    Valeria holds a PhD in Modern History from Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and she is currently Associate Professor of Economic History at University of Pisa. Her research focuses on history of consumption and material culture, economy of art and business history of fashion.


    Interests
    • #business
    • #economic history
    • #history
  • Josep Pujol Andreu
    Josep Pujol Andreu - Professor
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    He has been principal investigator on two projects for the Spanish Ministry of Education and in two Groups of Research for the Generalitat de Catalunya. His most important contributions are in the fields of history of agriculture and nutrition, history of technology and about the biological and material living standards of the population.

    Interests
    • #agriculture
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #well-being
  • Susan Razzaz
    Susan Razzaz - Senior Economist
    World Bank

    She is the senior country economist for Sri Lanka and the Maldives and task team leader for the Sri Lanka Country Partnership Strategy. Before coming to South Asia, she has also worked on Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, where she led the team supporting the government's Poverty Reduction Strategy.

    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #inequality
    • #labor economics
    • #poverty
    • #public policies
  • Evan Roberts
    Evan Roberts - Economic Historian
    University of Minnesota

    His research interests are in the social and economic history of Australasia and North America in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially focusing on health and living standards in New Zealand from the early nineteenth century, and on married women's work and the family economy in the US between the Civil War and World War II.

    Interests
    • #demography
    • #economic history
    • #north america
    • #oceania
  • Carolina Román
    Carolina Román - Assistant Professor
    University of the Republic

    She obtained her Master’s degree in Economic History and she has a B.A. in Economics from the University of the Republic (Uruguay). Her research covers the fields of economic history and development economics, and her work currently focuses on consumption, living standards and historical national accounts in Latin America.


    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #latin america
  • Sakari Saaritsa
    Sakari Saaritsa - Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Helsinki

    He is an economic and social historian whose research interests include social inequality, investments into health and education, intrahousehold resource allocation, historical indicators of well-being and human development, relationships between economic growth and human resources, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral dialogue between development policy, economics and history.

    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #econometrics
    • #economic history
    • #education
    • #health
    • #inequality
  • Paul Segal
    Paul Segal - Economist
    King's College London

    He is an economist with wide-ranging interests, working on global inequality and poverty; on the economics of resource-rich countries; and on the economic history of Argentina. He has extensive teaching experience, particularly in economic development and macroeconomics.

    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #inequality
    • #latin america
    • #poverty
  • Gerardo Serra
    Gerardo Serra - Lecturer
    University of Sussex

    He has joined the University of Sussex in 2014 while completing his PhD in Economic History at the LSE. His research focuses on history of economic thought, economic history of Africa, history of Ghana and the political economy of statistics. He is also interested in the intellectual history of totalitarian regimes, travel writing and historiography.

    Interests
    • #africa
    • #economic history
    • #economic thought
    • #institutions
    • #statistics
  • Niccolò Serri
    Niccolò Serri - PhD Student
    University of Cambridge

    He holds an MA from Columbia University and an MSc from LSE, obtained after receiving a BA in Contemporary History from the University of Siena, Italy. From July 2013 to March 2014 he has worked as a Consultant for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the office of Deputy Minister Marta Dassu'.


    Interests
    • #economic history
    • #europe
    • #institutions
    • #labor economics
  • Rabbia Tariq
    Rabbia Tariq - Lecturer
    School of Social Sciences & Humanities (NUST)

    Currently working as lecturer in Economics at the School of Social Sciences & Humanities (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, she holds an MPhil in Economics (2015) from the Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad). Her previous research focused on macroeconomics and development, but she is now increasingly engaging with welfare economics, poverty and income inequality.


    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #poverty
    • #well-being
  • Sara Torregrosa Hetland
    Sara Torregrosa Hetland - PhD Student
    University of Barcelona

    She obtained her BA in History at the University of Alicante (2009), then an MSc in Economic History (University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona and University of Zaragoza, 2010). She is now completing a PhD at the UB, working on "Tax system and redistribution: the Spanish fiscal transition (1960-1990)".

    Interests
    • #income distribution
    • #inequality
    • #taxation
  • Pierre van der Eng
    Pierre van der Eng - Economic historian
    Australian National University

    Economist and historian, his research focuses on: MNEs; market development and CSR in Indonesia; Japanese firms and their subsidiaries; barriers to trade and investment; long-term economic growth in Indonesia; nexus between famine and international food aid and trade to less-developed countries in Asia.

    Interests
    • #business
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #international economics
  • Elise van Nederveen Meekerk
    Elise van Nederveen Meekerk - Economic historian
    Utrecht University

    Elise holds a PhD in Economic and Social History (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/IISH) and is specialized in the history of labour relations, notably women’s and children’s work. She has directed several comparative labour history projects, on the history of textile workers, child labour, domestic workers, and sex workers. In 2017 she was awarded an ERC grant to study the role of household labour and consumption in the relocation of textile production across the world since ca. 1750.


    Interests
    • #child labor
    • #economic history
    • #gender economics
    • #history
    • #sociology
  • Mattia Viale
    Mattia Viale - Researcher
    University of Verona

    Mattia holds an MA in Historical Sciences from the University of Padua. He has completed a joint PhD in Economics and Management (University of Verona) and in History (University of Antwerp) in 2018, with a research project on “Consumer behaviour and material living standards in a transition economy: Venice (ca. 1650-1800)”.


    Interests
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #history
    • #italy
    • #well-being
  • Jacob Weisdorf
    Jacob Weisdorf - Economist
    University of Southern Denmark

    Jacob is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark, research fellow at the CEPR (London), and research associate of the CAGE in Warwick. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and one in Economic History from Lund University. His research concerns the forces that lead to the wealth of nations, focusing on England, Italy, and sub-Saharan Africa.


    Interests
    • #demography
    • #economic growth
    • #economic history
    • #europe
  • Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza
    Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza - PhD Student
    University of Göttingen

    He holds a BA in Economics from the Universidade de Sao Paulo and a MA in Development Economics from the Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, where he is also associate of the Research Group 1723 "Globalization and Development".


    Interests
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #migration
  • Giulia Zacchia
    Giulia Zacchia - Researcher
    University of Rome “La Sapienza”

    Giulia Zacchia is research fellow in economics at the Department of Statistics of Sapienza University of Rome, where she collaborates with Minerva - Laboratory on Gender Diversity and Gender Inequality. She holds a PhD in History of Economic Thought from the University of Macerata (Italy). Her research interests extend to social and financial inclusion in a gender perspective, but also cover gender gaps in academia, in particular in economics.


    Interests
    • #credit
    • #economic history
    • #economic thought
    • #gender economics
    • #history
    • #household finance
    • #statistics
  • Funing Zhong
    Funing Zhong - Professor
    Nanjing University

    Since 1999 is the Dean of the College of Economics and Trade at the Nanjing Agricultural University. Among other assignments, he is currently the a Vice President of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Economics and has served as a consultant to the FAO, the World Bank and IFPRI. He has several publications in eminent international journals.

    Interests
    • #agriculture
    • #asia
    • #development economics
    • #economic history
    • #globalization

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