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Working Papers

2022

1. Economic inequality in preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (3)
   Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2020) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic History (2022)
2. Poverty in early modern Europe: New approaches to old problems
   Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) View citations (1)

2020

3. Epidemics and Trust: The Case of the Spanish Flu
   Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University View citations (45)
   See also Journal Article in Health Economics (2021)
4. Epidemics, Inequality and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science View citations (3)
   Also in Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy (2020) View citations (3)
   CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) (2020) View citations (2)
   Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2020) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (2022)
5. Pandemics and asymmetric shocks: evidence from the history of plague in Europe and the Mediterranean
   CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) View citations (2)
6. The determinants of wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice (1400-1800)
   CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) View citations (3)

2019

7. Income Inequality in French West Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Senegal and Ivory Coast
   UB School of Economics Working Papers, University of Barcelona School of Economics View citations (4)

2018

8. Famine and Disease in Economic History: A Summary Introduction
   Working Papers, School of Economics, University College Dublin

2017

9. INCOME INEQUALITY IN COLONIAL AFRICA: BUILDING SOCIAL TABLES FOR PRE-INDEPENDENCE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, IVORY COAST AND SENEGAL
   African Economic History Working Paper, African Economic History Network View citations (11)
   Also in Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University (2017) View citations (13)
10. The rich in historical perspective: Evidence for preindustrial Europe, c. 1300-1800
    Working Papers, Economic History Society View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article in Cliometrica (2017)

2016

11. Plague and long-term development: the lasting effects of the 1629-30 epidemic on the Italian cities
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) View citations (3)
    Also in Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University (2014) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Economic History Review (2019)

2015

12. Dinamiche di lungo periodo della disuguaglianza in Italia settentrionale: una nota di ricerca
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi View citations (6)
13. Famines in late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A test for an advanced economy
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
14. Italian Famines: An overview (ca. 1250-1810)
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi View citations (1)
15. Was there a ‘Little Convergence’ in inequality? Italy and the Low Countries compared, ca. 1500-1800
    Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University View citations (2)

2014

16. Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population distributions
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
17. Economic inequality and poverty in the very long run: The case of the Florentine State
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi View citations (11)
18. Economic inequality in northwestern Italy: A long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries)
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Economic History (2015)

2013

19. Inequality (un)perceived: The emergence of a discourse on economic inequality from the Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi View citations (4)

2011

20. Plague in Seventeenth Century Europe and the Decline of Italy: An Epidemiological Hypothesis
    Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in European Review of Economic History (2013)
21. Social customs and demographic change: The case of godparenthood in Catholic Europe
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

2010

22. Climate, population and famine in Northern Italy: General tendencies and Malthusian crisis, ca. 1450-1800
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi View citations (8)
23. Entrepreneurs, formalisation of social ties and trustbuilding in Europe (14th-20th centuries)
    Working Papers, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi View citations (7)

2008

24. Concentration of wealth in an early modern city (Ivrea, fifteenth-seventeenth centuries)
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

Journal Articles

2023

1. Income and inequality in the Aztec Empire on the eve of the Spanish conquest
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, 7, (8), 1265-1274

2022

2. Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850
   The Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82, (1), 87-125 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper (2022)
3. Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2022, 60, (1), 3-40 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper (2020)
4. Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)
   Economic History Review, 2022, 75, (4), 1314-1348

2021

5. Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2021, 59, (1), 3-44 View citations (28)
6. Epidemics and trust: The case of the Spanish Flu
   Health Economics, 2021, 30, (4), 840-857 View citations (19)
   See also Working Paper (2020)

2019

7. A survival analysis of the last great European plagues: The case of Nonantola (Northern Italy) in 1630
   Population Studies, 2019, 73, (1), 101-118 View citations (7)
8. Plague and long‐term development: the lasting effects of the 1629–30 epidemic on the Italian cities
   Economic History Review, 2019, 72, (4), 1175-1201 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper (2016)

2018

9. The timing and causes of famines in Europe
   Nature Sustainability, 2018, 1, (6), 283-288 View citations (10)
10. giniinc: A Stata package for measuring inequality from incomplete income and survival data
    Stata Journal, 2018, 18, (3), 692-715 View citations (2)

2017

11. Long‐term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300–1800
    Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (4), 1072-1102 View citations (28)
12. Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World
    The Journal of Economic History, 2017, 77, (1), 314-343 View citations (64)
13. The rich in historical perspective: evidence for preindustrial Europe (ca. 1300–1800)
    Cliometrica, 2017, 11, (3), 321-348 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper (2017)

2016

14. Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500–1800
    Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 62, (C), 143-153 View citations (19)
15. Measuring Well-Being in the Past
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2016, 62, (4), 785-791

2015

16. Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-Term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
    The Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75, (4), 1058-1096 View citations (48)
    See also Working Paper (2014)
17. Estimating Sampling Selection Bias in Human Genetics: A Phenomenological Approach
    PLOS ONE, 2015, 10, (10), 1-13
18. Gérard Béaur, Phillipp R. Schofield, Jean-Michel Chevet, and María Teresa Pérez Picazo, eds., Property rights, land markets and economic growth in the European countryside ( Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013. Pp. 535. 46 figs. 62 tabs. ISBN 9782503529554 Pbk. £74.65)
    Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (1), 373-374

2013

19. Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis
    European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17, (4), 408-430 View citations (46)
    See also Working Paper (2011)

2012

20. Entrepreneurs, formalization of social ties, and trustbuilding in Europe (fourteenth to twentieth centuries)
    Economic History Review, 2012, 65, (3), 1005-1028 View citations (10)
21. Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries. By Alessandro Stanziani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 313. $ 90.00, hardcover
    The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72, (4), 1094-1096

2011

22. Population Dynamics, Malthusian Crises and Boserupian Innovation in Pre-Industrial Societies: The Case Study of Northern Italy (ca. 1450-1800) in the Light of Lee’s "Dynamic Synthesis"
    Rivista di Politica Economica, 2011, (2), 23-56 View citations (4)

2010

23. Trade and industry in early modern Italy
    Business History, 2010, 52, (5), 860-862

2007

24. Population et environnement en Italie du Nord au XVIe siècle
    Population (french edition), 2007, 62, (4), 667-705 View citations (1)

2006

25. Les réseaux de marrainage en Italie du Nord du XVe au XVIIe siècle: coutumes, évolution, parcours individuels
    Histoire, économie & société, 2006, 25, (4), 17-44

Books

2019

1. The Lion's Share
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (15)

Chapters

2018

1. Famine and Disease
   Palgrave Macmillan