Paola Giuliano

Professor of Economics / Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management

Schools

  • UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Biography

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Paola Giuliano is a Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management. 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. She teaches the Global Macroeconomics and Managerial Economics MBA courses at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

  • Primary: Economics of Culture, Social Economics, Political Economy

  • Secondary: Macroeconomics, International Economics

Education

  • Ph.D. Economics, 2003, UC Berkeley
  • B.A. Economics, summa cum laude, 1997, Bocconi University (Milan)

Publications

"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

"Gender and Culture", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, forthcoming

“The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon” (with Gaia Dossi, David Figlio and Paola Sapienza), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2021

“Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math”, 2021, (with Gaia Dossi, David Figlio and Paola Sapienza), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 183, 175-188

“Historical Data: Where to Find Them, How to Use Them”, with Andrea Matranga, forthcoming, Handbook of Historical Economics, Bisin, A. and G. Federico (eds.), Elsevier, North Holland

"The cost of being too patient" (with Paola Sapienza), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020

"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 Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior" (with Joan Costa i-Font and Berkay Ozcan), PLOS One, September 2018

"Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations" (with Nathan Nunn), Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1): 1-17

"Traditional agricultural practices and the sex ratio today" (with Alberto Alesina and Nathan Nunn), PLOS One, January 2018

"Gender: A Historical Perspective", in Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, ed. Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018

“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

"Review of Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion edited by Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen", Journal of Economic Literature, June 2016, 54 (2) 522-533

"Origin and Evolution of Cognitive Frames: Comments on 'Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion: Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice? by Karla Hoff", May 2016, in Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz editors: Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy, Volume 1: Concepts and Analysis, Palgrave MacMillan

"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

"Comment to Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality", by Ashok, Kuziemko and Washington, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2015

"The Role of Women in Society: from Pre-Industrial to Modern Times", CESifo Economic Studies, March 2015, 61 (1), 33-52

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