22 November 2018
14.30 Introduction and chair: Michelangelo Vasta (USiena)
15.00 Giacomo Gabbuti (UOxford) and Salvatore Morelli (CUNY), Inheritances and the concentration of personal wealth in Italy from Unification to the Great War (1862-1915)
Discussant: Alberto Rinaldi (UModena)
15.50 Rowena Gray (UCal), Gaia Narciso (TCDublin) and Gaspare Tortorici (TCDublin),Globalization, agricultural markets and mass migration
Discussant: Giovanni Vecchi (URoma2)
16.40-17.00 Coffee break
Chair: Leandro Conte (USiena)
17.00 Maria Stella Chiaruttini (EUI), The birth of a colony? Credit development and the origins of the Italian North-South divide (1814-1874)
Discussant: Giovanni Federico (UPisa)
17.50 Andrea Papadia (EUI), Slaves, migrants, development, fiscal capacity and public goods provision in Brazil, 1872-1923
Discussant: Paolo Di Martino (UB’ham)
23 November 2018
Chair: Andrea Colli (UBocconi)
09.30 Alberto Rinaldi and Giulia Tagliazucchi (UMore), Women Entrepreneurs in Italy: A Prosopographic study
Discussant: Giulia Mancini (URoma2)
10.20 Leonardo Ridolfi (SSSA), Giovanni Federico (UPisa), Alessandro Nuvolari (SSSA), Michelangelo Vasta (USiena), Is skill-premium necessary for technological catching-up? Evidence from Italy, 1861-1913
Discussant: Gabriele Cappelli (UBarcelona)
11.10-11.40 Coffee break
Chair: Renato Giannetti (UFirenze)
11.40 Michele Postigliola (URoma) and Mauro Rota (URoma), Institutional shocks and social capital: evidence from the French domination in Italy
Discussant: Mattia Bertazzini (LSE)
12.30 Giulia Mancini (URoma2), Breadwinner, bread maker. Gender division of labour and intrahousehold inequality in 1930s rural Italy
Discussant: Donatella Strangio (URoma)
13.20-14.10 Lunch
Chair: Giandomenico Piluso (USiena)
14.10 Giovanni Pala (UOxford), Patents of invention in pre-unification Italy: Northern trends and the role of foreign invention, 1815-1860
Discussant: Michelangelo Vasta (USiena)
15.00 Mattia Bertazzini (LSE), Cultivating the “fourth shore”: the effect of Italian farming in colonial Libya, 1920-1942
Discussant: Emanuele Felice (UPescara)
15.50-16.10 Coffee break
16.10 Martina Cioni (USiena), Giovanni Federico (UPisa) and Michelangelo Vasta (USiena), Ninety years of publications in Economic history: evidence from the top five field journals (1927-2017)
Discussant: Alessandro Nuvolari (SSSA)
About 17.15 end of the WS
