Paola Giuliano
Professor of Economics
UCLA, Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles
Main Topics:
- Political economy
- Culture and economics
- Applied microeconomics
- The role of the Government
- Trust & economics
- Gender economics
- Immigration
Professional Profile:
Paola Giuliano is a Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds the Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management.
She serves as a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. She is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge), research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn).
Giuliano’s main areas of research are culture and economics and political economy.
She holds a B.A. from Bocconi University (Milan) and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
She received the Young Economic Award from the European Economic Association in 2004.
Her research has been covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Businessweek,Time, The Economist, The Guardian, Financial Times, the Boston Globe, CNBC, KPCC and PBS.
Selected Works:
- “Nation Building and Education” (with Alberto Alesina and Bryony Reich), The Economic Journal, forthcoming
- “Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change” (with Nathan Nunn),Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
- “Long Term Orientation and Educational Performance” (with David Figlio, Umut Ozek and Paola Sapienza), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 272-309
- “The Right Amount of Trust” (with Jeff Butler and Luigi Guiso), Journal of the European Economic Association, October 2016, 14 (5), 1155-1180
- “Trust and Cheating” (with Jeff Butler and Luigi Guiso), Economic Journal, September 2016, 126 (595), 1703-1738
- “Culture and Institutions” (with Alberto Alesina), Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015, 53 (4) 898-944, Russian Translation in Voprosy ekonomiki
- “Trust, Values and False Consensus” (with Jeff Butler and Luigi Guiso), International Economic Review, August 2015, 56 (3), 889-915
- “Family Ties and the Regulation of Labor” (with Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc), Journal of the European Economic Association, August 2015, 13 (4), 599-630, Editor’s Choice
- “Growing Up in a Recession” (with Antonio Spilimbergo), Review of Economic Studies, April 2014, 81 (2), 787-817
- “Family Ties” (with Alberto Alesina) in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 177-215, 2014
- “Democracy and Reforms” (with Prachi Mishra and Antonio Spilimbergo), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2013, 5(4): 179-204
- “On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough” (with Alberto Alesina and Nathan Nunn), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2013, vol. 128 (2), 469-530, Lead Article and Editor’s Choice, Winner of the IPUMS 2013 Research Award
- “Preferences for Redistribution” (with Alberto Alesina), in Jess Benhabib, Matthew O. Jackson and Alberto Bisin editors: Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 93-131, 2010
- “The Power of the Family” (with Alberto Alesina), Journal of Economic Growth, June 2010, Vol. 15 (2), 93-125, Lead Article
- “Remittances, Financial Development and Growth” (with Marta Ruiz-Arranz), Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 90 (1), 144-152
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