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
Do bishops matter for politics? Evidence From Italy
Journal of Public Economics, 2024, vol.238, pp.105177
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France
Journal of Political Economy, 2024, vol.132, no. 10, pp.3215-3259
Spatial and historical drivers of fake news diffusion: Evidence from anti-Muslim discrimination in India
Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, vol.141, pp.103613
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