Paola Giuliano

Paola Giuliano (Italy ,1972) is an economist and currently the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[1]

Paola Giuliano
Born	Italy, 1972
Academic background
Alma mater	Bocconi University University of California, Berkeley
Academic work
Institutions	UCLA Anderson School of Management

Giuliano is a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research,^[2] a research fellow at the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA)^[3] and a research associate at the NBER.^[4] In 2004, she won the Young Economic Award from the European Economic Association,^[5] which has also elected her fellow.^[6]

Career and education

She obtained a B.A. and M.A. from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003.^[7][8] From 2003 to 2008, she was an economist at the International Monetary Fund. During her tenure at the IMF, she was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, she joined the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she stayed until now. In 2016-2017 she was a visiting associate professor at Harvard University.^[9]

Research

Giuliano mainly researches Cultural Economics, Social Economics and Political Economy. Her works have been cited over 18,000 times^[10] and she is the 51st most influential woman in economics according to her citation count on IDEAS.^[11] She has published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics,^[12] The Review of Economics Studies^[13] and the Journal of the European Economic Association.^[14]

Her work on culture has been recognized in the profession and she was asked to write a review article on "Culture and Institutions" in the Journal of Economics Literature along with Alberto Alesina.^[15]

Her research has been featured in Washington Post,^[16] Financial Times,^[17] The Guardian,^[18] New York Times,^[19][20][21] The Economist,^[22] Corriere della Sera,^[23] Le Figaro,^[24] Forbes and ^[25] CNBC.^[26]

Selected bibliography

• Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan (2013). "On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 128 (2): 469–530
• Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola (2015). "Culture and Institutions". Journal of Economic Literature. 53 (4): 898–944.
• Giuliano, Paola (2007). "Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?". Journal of the European Economic Association. 5 (5): 927–952.