Mara Pasquamaria Squicciarini
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Mara Pascquamaria Squicciarini is Associate Professor of Economics at Università Bocconi and a research affiliate at the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), and CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research).
Her research interests are in Economic History and Economic Growth, with a focus on the role of religion, culture, and human capital for industrialization and economic progress. Her research has appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and Science. She also co-edited the book the “Economics of Chocolate” (Oxford University Press).
She got a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Leuven and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard, Stanford, and UCLA.
Latest publications
Birth and migration of scientists: Does religiosity matter? Evidence from 19th-century France
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol.187, pp.274-289
Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in Nineteenth-Century France
American Economic Review, 2020, vol.110, no. 11, pp.3454-3491
Supply chains and economic development: Insights from the Indian dairy sector
Food Policy, 2017, vol.68, pp.128-142
Governance quality and net migration flows
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, vol.60, pp.238-248
The Economics of Chocolate
Oxford University Press, , 2016
Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment *
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, vol.130, no. 4, pp.1825-1883